| 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 |
| 2026– | Associate Professor, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton |
| 2023–26 | Lecturer, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton |
| 2021–23 | Postdoctoral Scholar, Physical Oceanography Department, WHOI |
Fellowship Royal Meteorological Society Fellow (2026, RMetS) | Future Leaders Fellow (2025, UKRI) | CHEP Education Fellow (2025, UoS) | Weston Howland Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow (2021, WHOI) | High Meadows Environmental Fellow (2021, Princeton, Declined) | Harvard Horizons Fellow (2020, Harvard)
Grants
NERC AI for Environmental Science, Phase I (Co-I, 2026-27, £314K)
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (PI, 2025–29, £1.46M)
Keynote Speaker 2nd Tropical Climate Variability Conference (2024, Bremen)
Plenary Speaker 15th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (2024, Toulouse)
Lecturer
The Oceans in a Changing Climate (Spring, 2027–)
Computational Data Analysis for Geophysicists and Ocean Scientists (Fall, 2023–)
Postdoc Supervison Xiao Peng (2026–) | Shan He (2026–)
Ph.D. Supervisor Callum Pemberton-Louden (2025–) | Ewan Strathdee (2025–) | Christian Kenwright (2025–) | Yifei Fan* (2021–)
Ph.D. Mentor Se-Yong Song (2023–25) | Chenggong Wang (2021–23) | Glenn Liu (2021–24)
University Head, Ocean and Climate Physics Research Group (2026–) | Academic Responsibility and Conduct Officer, SOES (2024–26) | EDI officer, UoS Math For Our Future Climate Centre for Doctoral Training (2024–26) | Member, UoS MOAP bid working group (2025) | Member, SOES Climate Hiring Committee (2024)
Data Expert NCAR Climate Data Guide (led the SST dataset overview and comparison page, and authored two additional user-facing data guidance pages; 2024-26)
Guest Editor Atmosphere Special Issue (Volume 15, Issue 12)
Reviewer IPCC AR7 (WG1) | 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) | 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) | The Guardian (20/07/26; 15/09/25) | The Conversation (20/07/26) | 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)