This is an abbreviated CV. For a full CV, send a request to: wusun {at} protonmail.com.
Table of contents
Research interests
- Biosphere–atmosphere exchange of carbon, water, and trace gases
- Photosynthesis, chlorophyll fluorescence, and stomatal conductance
- Physical and microbial controls of soil trace gas fluxes
- Applications of statistical learning in biogeosciences
Education
- Sep 2012 – Sep 2017: Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
Department of Atmopsheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
Dissertation: Carbonyl sulfide exchange between soils and the atmosphere
Advisor: Dr. Ulli Seibt - Sep 2008 – Jul 2012: B.Sc. in Geology
Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, China
Academic appointments
Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science
- Apr 2019 – present: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Supervisor: Dr. Anna Michalak
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, UCLA
- Oct 2017 – Apr 2019: Postdoctoral Scholar
- Jul 2013 – Sep 2017: Graduate Student Researcher
Teaching experience
Teaching Assistant (Teaching Associate since 2016), 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: Python data analysis, Introduction to Ecosystem–Atmosphere Interactions (AOS 155)
- Spring 2016: Regression and optimization with SciPy, Python Data Analysis seminar (AOS 281)
- Fall 2015: Python data analysis, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Laboratory (AOS 150)
- Spring 2015: Soil chamber system, Introduction to Ecosystem–Atmosphere Interactions (AOS 155)
Professional services
Peer review
- Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
- Biogeochemistry
- Biogeosciences
- Earth’s Future
- Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Geoscientific Model Development
- Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
- Nature Plants
- Oecologia
- SOIL (EGU)
Membership
- 2012 – present: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Programming skills
- Proficient in: Python and R
- Some experience in: C, Fortran, Julia, MATLAB, IDL, OCaml, Haskell
Field and laboratory skills
- Biometeorology: Eddy covariance, infrared gas analyzer, meteorological sensors
- Plants: Portable photosynthesis system, chlorophyll fluorescence, leaf chamber
- Soils: Soil respiration chamber, soil sensors
