Curriculum Vitae - Wu Sun

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Education

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