This is a brief CV. For a full version, contact me at: wusun {at} protonmail.com.
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Education
- Sept. 2012 – Sept. 2017: Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
Dissertation: Carbonyl sulfide exchange between soils and the atmosphere
Advisor: Dr. Ulli Seibt - Sept. 2008 – Jul. 2012: B.S. in Geology
Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, China
Academic appointments
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science
- Oct. 2022 – present: Research Scientist
- Apr. 2019 – Sept. 2022: Postdoctoral Fellow
Supervisor: Dr. Anna Michalak
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
- Oct. 2017 – Apr. 2019: Postdoctoral Scholar
- Jul. 2013 – Sept. 2017: Graduate Student Researcher
Teaching experience
Graduate Student Instructor, UCLA
- Fall 2016: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Laboratory (AOS 150)
- Winter 2015: Climate Change – From Puzzles to Policy (AOS 1)
- Fall 2014: Fundamentals of Air and Water Pollution (AOS 104)
Guest Lecturer, UCLA
- Winter 2017: “Ecosystem flux data analysis in Python”, Introduction to Ecosystem–Atmosphere Interactions (AOS 155)
- Spring 2016: “Regression and optimization with SciPy”, Python Data Analysis (AOS 281)
- Fall 2015: “Python data analysis”, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Laboratory (AOS 150)
- Spring 2015: “Soil gas flux measurement”, Introduction to Ecosystem–Atmosphere Interactions (AOS 155)
Selected awards and honors
- 2022: North American Carbon Program & U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Leadership Award
- 2017: Jacob A. Bjerknes Memorial Research Award (dissertation award), UCLA
Professional service
Peer review
Reviewer of grant proposals for NASA (2023, 2024) and NSF (2022)
Reviewer of manuscripts in
- Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
- Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- Biogeochemistry
- Biogeosciences
- Communicatons Earth & Environment
- Climate of the Past
- Earth’s Future
- Environmental Pollution
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Geoscientific Model Development
- Global Change Biology
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
- Nature Communications
- Nature Plants
- New Phytologist
- Oecologia
- Plant and Soil
- PLoS ONE
- SOIL (EGU)
Professional affiliations
- 2012 – present: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Programming skills
- Python: core scientific stack, data visualization, machine learning, parallel computing, C and Fortran interfacing, package development, Jupyter Notebook
- R: ggplot2, tidyverse, statistical modeling, causal inference
Field and laboratory skills
- Biometeorology: Eddy covariance, infrared gas analyzer, and meteorological sensors
- Plants: Portable photosynthesis system, chlorophyll fluorescence, and leaf chambers
- Soils: Soil respiration chambers and soil sensors
