👋 Hello there, I’m Jiawei!

🎓 I’m a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, under the Phanerzoic CO₂PIP project.

🔬 I use geochemistry as a tool to study soils, which could help us better understand the global carbon cycle and our 🌏, especially how they respond to global warming.

🏃 I enjoy working out, playing basketball, watching films, and traveling during my leisure time.

Education

• Ph.D. in Geology
  • School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University
  • 09/01/2013 - 06/22/2020
  • Thesis: Reconstructing atmospheric CO₂ levels using paleosols from the Chinese Loess Plateau (supervisor: Junfeng Ji)
• B.Sc in Geology
  • School of Earth Sciences, Jilin University
  • 09/01/2008 - 06/30/2012

Research Experience

• CO2PIP postdoctoral fellow
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • 08/01/2022 - now
  • Research projects:
    1. Archving and modernizing the published paleosol-CO₂ records
    2. Developing a joint proxy inversion framework for soil carbonate system (including the $\delta$¹³C, $\delta$¹⁸O, and $\Delta$^‘17O)
    3. Investigating the hydroclimate variability over East Asia during the warm Pliocene and Miocene using a multi-proxy approach
    4. Developing a proxy system model for land snail shells
• Yuxiu Youngs 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
• Research Assistant
  • Key Laboratory of Surficial Geochemistry, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University
  • 09/01/2017 - 07/31/2022
  • Responsibilities include:
    1. Maintaining the optical spectrum devices (FTIR, UV-NIR)
    2. Sample pretreatment and analyses

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