| 2015–21 | Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University (Advisor: Peter Huybers) |
| 2013–15 | M.S. in Meteorology, Nanjing University, China |
| 2009–13 | B.S. in Applied Meteorology and Minor in Finance, Nanjing University, China |
| 2023– | Lecturer, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton |
| 2021–23 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI |
Fellowship Future Leaders Fellow (2025–, UKRI, £1.41M) | CHEP Education Fellow (2025–, UoS) | Weston Howland Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow (2021, WHOI) | High Meadows Environmental Fellow (2021, Princeton, Declined) | Harvard Horizons Fellow (2020, Harvard)
Keynote Speaker 2nd Tropical Climate Variability Conference (2024, Bremen)
Plenary Speaker 15th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (2024, Toulouse)
Lecturer Computational Data Analysis for Geophysicists and Ocean Scientists (Fall, 2023–)
Ph.D. Supervisor Callum Pemberton-Louden (2025–) | Ewan Strathdee (2025–) | Christian Kenwright (2025–) | Yifei Fan* (2021–)
Ph.D. Mentor Se-Yong Song (2023–) | Chenggong Wang (2021–22) | Glenn Liu (2021–24)
Undergraduate Mentor Charlotte Henke (2021) | Sarah King (2020–2021)
UoS Committee EDI officer, UoS Math For Our Future Climate Centre for Doctoral Training (2024–) | Academic Responsibility and Conduct Officer, SOES (2024–) | Member, SOES Oceanography Programme Re-branding Committee (2025–) | Member, UoS MOAP bid working group (2025–) | Member, SOES Climate Hiring Committee (2024)
Guest Editor Atmosphere Special Issue (Volume 15, Issue 12)
Reviewer PNAS | Nature Communications | Science Advances | Quarterly J. Royal Meteorological Society | J. Climate | Geophysical Research Letter | JGR: Atmospheres | Earth's Future | npj Climate and Atmospheric Science | Climate Dynamics | J. Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology | NOAA Small Business Research Funding
Presentation Judge AGU (2022) | Ocean Science Meeting (2026, 2022)
Organizer AGU co-convener (2023; GC084) | Harvard ClimaTea seminar (2017)
Media Agence France-Presse (08/09/25) | AGU EOS (08/09/25; 05/02/24; 20/10/23) | Associated Press (08/09/25) | CNN (08/09/25) | Financial Times (01/03/26) | Guardian (15/09/25) | National Public Radio (10/09/25; 19/08/19) | Nature News & Views (20/11/24; 17/07/19) | New Scientist (01/06/25; 10/02/25; 10/01/25) | Science Insider (31/01/24) | Scientific American (08/09/25) | UK's Science Media Centre (05/02/24) | Yale Climate Connections (07/01/16)
Outreach Voluntary teaching at Perry School (public middle school in south Boston; Winter, 2019–20)
| 2021 | One Ocean Expedition, Statsraad Lehmkuhl: Miami–New York, Dec. 10–18 |
Invited Talks
[7] Re-Evaluating Historical SST Data Sets: Implications for proxy calibration and paleo–data assimilation (AGU 2025)
[6] Recent advancements in historical earth surface temperature analysis and insights into climate change from enhanced data. (U East Anglia 2025 | Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium 2024 | Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research 2024 | U Southampton (Math) 2024 | U Leipzig 2024 | U Bremen 2024 | UK Met Office 2024 | Plenary Talk, IMSC, France 2024 | UCL, London 2024)
[5] Combining the physics of air-sea interaction and data-driven methods to improve historical estimates of earth surface temperatures (Ocean University of China 2023 | Duke Kunshan 2023 | Hanyang University 2023 | MIT 2023 | UC Colorado 2023 | NCAR 2023 | U Chicago 2023 | WHOI GFD summer school 2022 | U Miami 2022)
[4] Are we already at a 1.5°C warming threshold? (U Southampton (SOES) 2022)
[3] Combining statistical, physical, and historical methods to improve historical sea surface temperature data (Zhejiang University 2022 | Ocean Dynamics Seminar 2022 | Penn State U 2022 | UC Irvine 2021 | U Washington 2021 | WHOI 2021 | Nanjing University 2021 | U.K. National Oceanography Centre 2021 | Harvard Horizons 2021 | Princeton 2020 | Yale 2020)
[2] Applying statistical methods to climate reconstructions — Late 19th-century navigational errors and their influence on sea surface temperatures (Joint Statistical Meeting 2020)
[1] Correcting datasets leads to more homogeneous early-twentieth-century sea surface warming (Fudan University 2019 | Nanjing University 2019)
Recent Conference Talks
[3] SST Dataset Choice Affects Estimates of Historical Climate Variability (EGU 2026)
[2] Improved Homogenisation of Observation Shows Steadier and Faster Historical Global Warming (AMS 2025)
[1] Discrepancies between Coastal Air and Sea-Surface Temperature and Implications for Global Mean Temperature Estimates (AMS 2023 | AGU 2022 | 47 NOAA Climate Diagnostic and Prediction Workshop 2022)