About me

I’m a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, funded by the NSF-FRES CO₂PIP project.
I am broadly interested in past changes in 🌏 carbon and 🌧️ cycles and the underlying mechanisms responsible for those changes. The lessons we learned from the past can help us tackle pressing challenges under 🌏 🔥 such as water scarcity and carbon emission. I use various geochemical tools from terrestrial archives to reconstruct paleoenvironmental information such as atmospheric CO₂ and 🌧🌡.
When I am not 🧐🔬, I enjoy 🏋🏀🎥🎮🥘.

Education

• Ph.D. in Geology
  • School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
  • 09/01/2013 - 06/22/2020
• B.Sc in Geology
  • School of Earth Sciences, Jilin University
  • 09/01/2008 - 06/30/2012

Work Experience

• Postdoctoral fellow
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • 08/01/2022 - now
  • Research projects:
    1. Modernizing the Phanerozoic paleosol-derived CO₂ records
    2. Developing a joint proxy inversion framework based on soil carbonate isotopes
    3. Investigating the Miocene-Pliocene hydroclimate variability over East Asia using a multi-proxy approach based on soil carbonates
    4. Developing a standard operating protocol of acid pre-analysis treatment for high-carbonate paleosol samples
• Yuxiu Young Scholar Program postdoctoral fellow
  • Nanjing University
  • 09/01/2020 - 07/31/2022
  • Research projects:
    1. Explored ¹³C/¹²C fractionation related to soil organic matter decomposition
    2. Determined the seasonality of soil carbonate from the Chinese Loess Plateau across the Quaternary glacial cycles