Yuanchao Fan
Associate Professor of Environmental Science & Engineering
PI of i-Ecoclimatology Lab
Research Interests
- Energy, Water, Carbon Cycles
- Climate Risk and Impact Assessment
- Climate Change Mitigation
- Climate-Land-Ecosystem-Society Nexus
- Earth System Modelling
- Remote Sensing
Biography
Dr. Fan joined Tsinghua SIGS in January 2023. He was formerly a research fellow at Harvard University Center for the Environment (2019-2022) and a postdoctoral researcher at the Norwegian Research Centre and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (2016-2019). He specializes in climate change impact assessment and mitigation, applying principles of ecological climatology.
His research interests lie in the field of climate change impact and climate mitigation. Focusing on issues in the Climate-Land-Ecosystem-Society nexus, he take an interdisciplinary approach to assessing the impact of climate change and climate intervention (including solar geoengineering) on agriculture, ecosystem, and human livability, as well as the feedback of land cover change to climate, to provide decision support for addressing climate change and building a carbon neutral society.
Representative Works
Developing a human energy balance model to project the impact of extreme heat stress on human health.
Evaluating the impacts of solar geoengineering and emissions reduction scenarios on agriculture using Earth system models.
Developing a CLM-Palm model to quantify the impact of rainforest to oil palm conversion on land-atmosphere carbon, water, and energy fluxes.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School | 2026.01 - Present
Assistant Professor
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School | 2023.01 - 2025.12
Research Fellow
Harvard University | 2019.10 - 2022.10
Postdoctoral Researcher
NORCE Norwegian Research Centre & Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research | 2016.09 - 2019.08
Research Assistant
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute | 2011.09 - 2012.10
Education
Ph.D. in Bioclimatology
University of Göttingen | 2012.11 - 2016.06
Ph.D. in Functional Ecology and Agricultural Sciences
AgroParisTech (Joint Degree) | 2012.11 - 2016.06
M.S. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences
University of Nevada, Reno | 2008.07 - 2011.08
B.Eng. in Remote Sensing Science and Technology
Wuhan University | 2003.09 - 2008.06
Academic Services
Editorial Roles
Active Topic Editor for Geoscientific Model Development.
Journal Reviewer
Nature, Nature Climate Change, Nature Food, Nature Communications, National Science Review, Communications Earth & Environment, Geoscientific Model Development, Science of The Total Environment, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Climate Dynamics, Climatic Change, and other international peer-reviewed journals.