<p>span>I am an Earth system scientist with enthusiasm for integrating multi-discipline knowledge and multi-scale data to better model and understand climate-terrestrial ecosystem interactions. I am now an assistant professor in the span> Before joining&UA, I was first a postdoctoral Research Associated and then an R&D staff scientist at the span> Oak Ridge National Lab. I hold a&Ph.D. in Atmosphere Science from span>a Master in Ecology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Bachelor in Environmental Engineering from the University of Science and Technology in Beijing. My current research within the SONG BIO-ESM Lab at UA specializes in Biospheric-Earth System Modeling. My lab aims to advance our understanding and predictive power of the role of&b>vegetation< b>microbial communities< and b>humans&the biotic components of the Earth system in terrestrial-atmospheric interactions.