Principal Research Fellow in Climate Science (NCAS)

Responsibilities:

• Principal Research Fellow (NCAS-Climate)

Research Interests:

• Coupled ocean atmosphere interaction
• Atlantic ocean variability and its impact on global climate
• The impact of aerosol on regional and global climate
• Asian monsoon variability and predictability
• Paleoclimate modelling
• Detection and attribution of climate change

Current and Past Research Projects Involved:

• Towards an Integrated Capability to Explain and Predict Regional Climate Changes (EXPECT
• Climate Change in the Arctic-North Atlantic Region and Impacts on the UK (CANARI) project (NE/W004981/1)
• Causes and impacts of Greenland atmospheric Blocking changes (GreenBlock)".
• The North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study (ACSIS)
• Evaluating Extreme Rainfall in Eastern China (EERCH)
• Regional Impacts of Chinese Heat and Humidity Extremes on Society (RICHES)
• Analysing Models And Reanalysis to understand Brazilian Environmental Loss and Opportunity (AMARELO)
• Long Term Undulations versus Secular Change in Chinese Climate (LOTUS)
• Effects of aerosol on regional climate and near term prediction for East Asia and Europe
• Global DYnamics of Climate Variability and impacts on East Asia (DYVA)
• Summer:Testing Influences and Mechanisms for Europe (SummerTIME)
• Event attribution analyses for China

Postdoctoral & graduate student and visitor supervision

• Dr Fangxing Tian, Co-supervised with Dr Jon Robson and Prof. Rowan Sutton
• Dr Paul-Arthur Monerie, Co-supervised with Dr Jon Robson
• Dr Albert Osso, Co-supervised with Prof. Len Shaffrey and Prof. Rowan Sutton
• Dr Irene Polo (Visitor from Nov 2011 to June 2013), Co-supervised with Prof, Rowan Sutton
• PhD student: Jason Webster (2010-2013), Co-supervised with Prof. Rowan Sutton
• Dr Feifei Luo (Visitor from Sept 2017 to Jul 2018)
• Dr Qin Su (Visitor from Oct 2017 to Sept 2018, Jul 2019 to Aug 2019)
• Dr Bo Zhang (Visitor from Jan 2019 to Jul 2019)
• Zhongxi Lin (PhD visitor from Sept 2018 to Aug 2019)
• Xiaoxuan Zhao (PhD visitor from Sept 2019 to Sept 2020)
• Dr Yan Guo (Visitor from Jan 2020 to Apr 2021)
• Miss Ruijie Zhang from Fudan University (from Feb 2022 to Feb 2023)
• Dr Chunxiang Li from IAP/CAS (from Aug 2022 to Jul 2023)
• Miss Bosi Sheng from Sun-Yat-sen University (from Nov 2022 to Oct 2023)
• Mr Shuheng Lin from Sun-Yat-sen University (from Nov 2022 to Nov 2023)
• Prof. Yamin Hu from Guangdong Meteorological Service (from Jan 2023 to Dec 2023)
• Miss Shaoyu Zhang, PhD visitor from IAP/CAS (from Jan 2023 to Dec 2023)
• Mr Zeijiang Yin from Sun-Yat-sen University (from Sept 2023 to Sept 2024)
• Mrs Ran Zheng from Sichuan Provincial Meteorological Bureau (from Dec 2023 to Nov 2024)
• Dr Yaheng Tan from Guizhou Climate Center (from Jul 2024 to Jul 2025)
• Mingming Zhang, PhD student (Jan 2021 to Apr 2025), Co-supervised with Prof. Jon Robson and Prof. Reinhard Schiemann
• Melissa Seabrook, part time PhD student (Sept 2023 - ), Co-supervised with Prof. Ted Shepherd and Dr Doug Smith and Dr Nick Dunstone

Other interests

• Editor of "Advances in Atmospheric Sciences"
• Editor of "Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters"

Centaur Publications

Last update: 25th March 2026