Shaocai Yu#
| Membership Number: | 6086 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/shaocai_yu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Chair Professor, College of Environment and Natural Resources, Zhejiang University, China
- 2017 - 2021 Visiting Professor (visiting Associate Faculty), Division of Chemistry and Chemistry Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA
- 2009 - 2013 Physical scientist (federal position), AMAD, NERL,U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA
- 2012 - present Adjunct Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, USA
- 2010 - present Guest professor, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- 2004 - 2009 STC senior scientist, ASMD, NERL,U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA
- 2001 - 2004 UCAR scientist, ASMD, NERL,U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/NOAA, USA
- 1999 - 2001 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, USA
- 1994 - 1999 Research Assistant, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, USA
- 1988 - 1994 Environmental Engineer, Xiamen Municipal Research Institute of Environmental Protection, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Modeling of aerosols, clouds and climate
- Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions
- Atmospheric environment chemistry
- Air quality and climate change models
- Air pollution, and its sources and health impacts
- Aerosols, and its impact on air quality and climate change
Honours and Awards
- 2019 IAAM Award Lecture, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2014 Excellence Award of the fourth "Qian Xuesen Gold Award for urban studies", China
- 2012 European Geosciences Union (EGU) Complimentary member
- 2011 Silver medal for superior service of 2011 U.S. EPA National honor awards (U.S. EPA's highest level award), USA
- 2011 The U.S. EPA’s 2011 Level II Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA), USA
- 2011 The U.S. EPA’s 2011 Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards (STAA) Honorable Mentions, USA
- 2011 Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, UK (The United Kingdom of Great Britain)
- 2009, 2010, 2011,2012 Special accomplishment recognition award (“S” Award) of U.S. EPA. USA
- 2009 Certificate of appreciation of U.S. EPA in recognition of contributions toward advancing the science in the Nation’s official air quality forecasting system, USA
- 2008 (62st) Edition of Who's Who in America
- 2007 (61st) Edition of Who's Who in America
- 1999 Global Change Scholarship of American Meteorological Society
