Welcome!
to my website! I recently graduated with a Ph.D. from the Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Group at the University of Montana, where I studied wildfire emissions and the atmospheric chemistry of VOCs through observational constraints and modeling with Prof. Lu Hu. I am now a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Xiaomeng Jin’s group at Rutgers University.
My research focuses on improving our understanding of wildfire smoke chemistry and its impacts on air quality and public health. A core component of my work is developing fire-adapted chemical mechanisms and improving chemical transport model (CTM) representations based on the GEOS-Chem CTM.
Key research questions I aim to address include:
- How can wildfire emissions and atmospheric chemistry be better represented in CTMs to reduce biases in simulated air quality?
- How does smoke composition evolve from fresh plumes to multi-day aged pollution, and which processes control oxidant formation and secondary pollutants?
- What roles do reactive VOC classes (e.g., furanoids and other oxygenated species) play in ozone formation and secondary pollution in smoke-impacted regions?
- How can chemically resolved wildfire smoke exposure metrics improve population-scale health assessments beyond PM₂.₅ mass alone?
Here you can read my CV, check out my research, browse my peer-reviewed publications, and see my past talks or posters, as well as my interests beyond science. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if there is anything you’d like to discuss.
Prior to joining the University of Montana, I received my B.S. in Atmospheric Science with Honors (top 10%) from Lanzhou University in China. My interest in air quality modeling took me to Seattle—the University of Washington for one semester—where I studied atmospheric chemistry and F0AM (The Framework for 0-D Atmospheric Modeling) with Prof. Dan Jaffe. Beyond research, my interests include hiking, travel, cooking, working out, and learning cool things in industry. You can learn more about those activities here.