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Principal Investigator

Xiao Lu

Position
Professor and PhD Supervisor
Email
luxiao25@mail.sysu.edu.cn
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Air Pollution FormationTrends in Air Pollutants and Atmospheric OxidationNatural and Anthropogenic Sources and Chemical Transformation of reactive tracersMeteorological Impacts on Air Pollution
Greenhouse Gas Sources and SinksGlobal Methane Budget Inversion and AttributionRegional Greenhouse Gas Evolution and Emission Inventories
Climate-Chemistry FeedbacksEffects of Global Warming and Climate Variability on Atmospheric CompositionFeedbacks of Atmospheric Constituents on Climate, Vegetation Carbon Cycling, and Energy

Background

Atmospheric chemistry, air quality, greenhouse gas budgets, and Earth system modeling

Research Fields

Sources and trends of greenhouse gases and atmospheric pollutants; interactions among weather, climate, atmospheric chemistry, and air quality; numerical modeling of atmospheric chemistry and the Earth system

Education

  • Sep. 2014-Jul. 2019: Ph.D., Peking University
  • Sep. 2010-Jul. 2014: B.S., Sun Yat-sen University

Appointments

  • Jan. 2026-present: Professor, Sun Yat-sen University
  • May 2021-Dec. 2025: Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen University
  • Oct. 2019-Apr. 2021: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Academic Service

  • 国际对流层臭氧评估计划（TOAR）东亚工作组组长
  • 未来地球计划全球秘书中心（中国）副主任
  • 国际科学理事会中国委员会（ISC-China）青年委员
  • 中国环境科学学会臭氧污染控制专业委员会委员

Awards and Honors

  • Top 2% Scientists Worldwide
  • China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Youth Talent Support Program
  • Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation Distinguished Young Scholars Program
  • Xie Yibing Young Meteorological Science and Technology Award

Representative Publications

  • Tropospheric ozone trends and attributions over East and Southeast Asia in 1995-2019: an integrated assessment using statistical methods, machine learning models, and multiple chemical transport models
  • Observation-derived 2010-2019 trends in methane emissions and intensities from US oil and gas fields tied to activity metrics
  • Increased night-time oxidation over China despite widespread decrease across the globe
  • The underappreciated role of agricultural soil nitrogen oxide emissions in ozone pollution regulation in North China
  • Deciphering decadal urban ozone trends from historical records since 1980
  • Revisiting the quantification of power plant CO2 emissions in the United States and China from satellite: A comparative study using three top-down approaches
  • Global tropospheric ozone trends, attributions, and radiative impacts in 1995-2017: an integrated analysis using aircraft observations, ozonesonde, and multi-decadal chemical model simulations
  • Development of the global atmospheric general circulation-chemistry model BCC-GEOS-Chem v1.0: model description and evaluation