I will join Nicholas School of the Environment (NSOE) at Duke University as an assistant professor in Jan 2025! I am actively looking for dedicated and enthusiastic PhD students, Postdoctoral researchers, and visiting students/scholars to join our team. Please contact me liyin.he@duke.edu by including your CV, anticipated start date and research interests.
My research focuses on understanding the interrelationship between air, water, and ecosystem in the face of climate change, elevated CO2, air pollution, and different management practices. I use three main approaches: 1) spatiotemporal data analysis to interpret field and satellite observations; 2) machine learning approaches to generate novel datasets; and 3) process-based terrestrial biosphere models to understand the underlying mechanism. My work encompasses a wide range of scales—from the micro-level interactions within individual plants to macro-level regional and global patterns.
Appointment
Carnegie Institution for Science (at Stanford University) | Aug 2022 - now
- Postdoctoral Research Associate at Department of Global Ecology
- Supervisor: Dr. Lorenzo Rosa
Education
California Institute of Technology | Ph.D | Sep 2016 - Jul 2022
- Major: Environmental Science & Engineering
- Minor: Applied and Computational Mathematics
- Thesis Advisory Committee: Dr. Christian Frankenberg (advisor), Dr. Paul Wennberg (chair), Dr. Yuk Yung and Dr. David Schimel
- Thesis: Agriculture and Its Role in the Global Carbon Cycle
Nanjing University | B.S |Sep 2012 - Jun 2016
- Major: Geographic Information Science (with honor)
- Minor: Financial Engineering