Yuan Wang

Yuan Wang joined the Department of Earth System Science at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability in 2023. Prior to joining Stanford, he was an associate professor at Purdue University and a research scientist at California Institute of Technology. His research group aims to advance the understanding of the physical and chemical interactions between atmospheric constituents and climate change. Specifically, his group conducts research related to aerosol-cloud-radiation interactions and their climatic implications, air pollution and haze formation, cloud and precipitation microphysics, and the assessment of the greenhouse gas and aerosol forcings on the atmosphere, ocean, and cryosphere. They develop and use multiscale Earth system models and machine learning methods in combination with space-borne and in situ measurements to address those scientific questions. 

Yuan Wang served as the Chair of Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry for the American Meteorological Society, an inaugural Editor-in-Chief of npj Clean Air (Nature Portfolio), and an editor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP). He has more than 130 peer-reviewed journal publications with an H-Index 54.  He is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union.

Selected Honors:

·  American Geophysical Union, James B. Macelwane Medal, James R. Holton Award, Turco Lectureship 

·  American Meteorological Society, Henry G. Houghton Award 

·  U.S. National Science Foundation, CAREER Award 

·  International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, Early Career Scientist Medal 

Education:

·  Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, Texas

·  B. S. in Computer Sciences, Fudan University, China