About the Editors
Editors-in-Chief
Roy M. Harrison, OBE, FRS, FRSC, FRMetS
Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Centenary Professor of Environmental Health
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, UK
Professor Roy Harrison leads the Environmental Health Sciences Group in the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham. He is an atmospheric chemist, with a particular interest in aerosols, including their effects upon human health. His research specialism is in air pollution on an urban scale, from emissions through atmospheric chemical and physical transformations to exposure and effects on human health. Much of this work is designed to inform the development of policy.
Fred Kucharski, PhD
Research Scientist, Earth System Physics Section
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste, Italy
Dr. Kucharsaki has been with ICTP since 2001, where his main research areas are climate variability and its predictability. Special research topics include atmospheric and oceanic teleconnections, particularly El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Atlantic Nino teleconnections with monsoons and extratropical regions at all time scales; the separation of forced and internal climate variability; Sahel and Arabian Peninsula rainfall variability and its relation to sea surface temperatures; and decadal modes of variability and air-sea interactions.
Deputy Editor
Suzanne Gray, PhD
Professor, Department of Meterology
University of Reading
Reading, UK
Suzanne Gray has been a staff member at the University of Reading since 1998 and Professor of Meteorology since 2013. Her research expertise is in dynamical meteorology with a focus on the spatial and temporal scales relevant to weather systems. Her research examines forecast predictability, mesoscale and convective processes, climatologies and pollutant transport by weather systems and is applied to a wide range of weather phenomena including convective clouds, mesoscale 'sting jets' in extreme windstorms, extratropical and tropical cyclones, polar lows and weather regimes. She obtained her PhD (also at Reading) for work on the intensification of tropical cyclones and polar lows.
Managing Editors
Jialiang Cai, PhD
Jialiang received a B.Sc. in Ecology from East China Normal University (China) and a M.Sc. in Environmental Sciences from Peking University (China). He earned his Ph.D. in Hydrogeology from Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). Jialiang continued to work first as a Postdoctoral Researcher and later as a PI (Visiting Research Fellow) for 7 years at Aalto University (Finland). His research focused on understanding the exposure and resilience of society to nature resources risk as well as the synergies and tradeoffs between economic competitiveness, social welfare, and environmental sustainability for accessing transformative pathways towards achieving the 2030 Agenda in a warmer world. Prior to joining the npj series in May 2023, Jialiang served as a Senior Editorial Development Specialist at earth science, astronomy and space sciences, physics, and chemistry journals at Frontiers. He is based in the Shanghai office.
Basma Qazi-Chaudhry, PhD
Basma joined the npjs in August 2021 after completion of her PhD at King’s College London. Her doctoral research was at the interface of chemistry, physics and bio imaging developing nanoparticle probes as biological imaging contrast agents for vibrational micro-spectroscopy. Prior to that, she received her master’s degree in micro and nanotechnologies for integrated systems and her bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from EPFL, Switzerland. Basma is based in the London office and is currently on parental leave.
Associate Editors
Mansour Almazroui, PhD
Director, Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Professor Mansour Almazroui is a well-renowned climate scientist and expert on climate change. In addition to his Director role, he is also the Head of the Department of Meterology at KAU. As the Director, he has been leading the research activities at the Center of Excellence for Climate Change Research (CECCR) since its establishment in 2010. He is currently an associate fellow at CRU. His research interests focus on climate variability, climate change and its effect on the environment, water resources and agriculture. He is interested in detecting climate change signals and future climate change in the Middle East using state-of-the-art Global Climate Models (GCMs) and Regional Climate Models (RCMs).
Niklas Boers, PhD
Professor, School of Engineering and Design
Technical University of Munich
Munich, Germany
Niklas Boers is Professor of Earth System Modelling at TU Munich and leads the Future Lab on Artificial Intelligence at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. He is a mathematician and physicist by training but has been working in climate science for more than a decade. His research focusses on developing methods for modelling extreme events and critical transitions in the Earth system, combining process-based and data-driven modelling approaches.
Pingqing Fu, PhD
Chair Professor, School of Earth System Science,
Tianjin University
Tianjin, China
Dr. Pingqing Fu is Chair Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Biogeochemistry. His research team focuses on the chemodiversity of organic matter in atmospheric aerosols, rain and fog water, and snow and ice-cores at a molecular level as it relates to long-range transport, photochemical degradation, and climate change. He serves as Director of the Center for Land/Ocean-Atmosphere Interface Science in Tianjin University.
Kimitaka Kawamura, PhD
Visiting Professor, Chubu Institute for Advanced Studies
Chubu University
Kasugai, Aichi, Japan
Prof. Kawamura received the degree from Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU) for geochemical studies of fatty acids and related compounds in lacustrine sediments from Lake Biwa, central Japan. He worked at University of California, Los Angeles, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for organics in wet precipitation, gas and aerosols. After coming back to Japan, he studied organic aerosols from urban, remote, marine and polar regions as well as ice cores at TMU and then the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University. Dr. Kawamura is an Emeritus Professor of Hokkaido University. His major interests include low molecular weight mono-and di-carboxylic acids in the atmosphere and ice cores, and their impact on climate.
Dongliang Luo, PhD
Professor, Northwest Institute of Eco-environment and Resources
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lanzhou, China
Dongliang Luo is a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include 1) Multi-interactions between climate and cryosphere across the northern hemisphere, especially in the Tibetan Plateau; 2) Distribution and evolution of cryospheric components in the mountain regions and its correlation to varied climate and; 3) Response of cryosphere to climate change and its influence on the ecology, hydrology, and sustainable development of society.
Jiafu Mao, PhD
Senior Staff Scientist, Climate Change Science Institute and
Environmental Sciences Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, USA
Jiafu’s research interests include quantification and prediction of carbon, hydrology, vegetation, and wildfire dynamics in the Earth system, utilizing field measurements, satellite products, process-oriented land surface and Earth system models, as well as various statistical methods including machine learning techniques; attribution of variations in Earth's land surface dynamics to both natural and anthropogenic drivers, such as urbanization, through the use of factorial model simulations or geoengineering model experiments.
Juliane Schwendike, PhD
Associate Professor in Meteorology, Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science
University of Leeds
Leeds, UK
Juliane’s work focusses on the dynamics of tropical cyclones, the predictability of tropical cyclones in global and convection-permitting ensemble simulations, the link between African easterly waves and convection, local Hadley and Walker circulations, the impact of the MJO on these circulations, and the organisation and propagation of convection in the tropics.
Thomas Spengler, PhD
Professor, Geophysical Institute
University of Bergen
Bergen, Norway
Thomas Spengler has been a professor in meteorology at the University of Bergen since 2010 and obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2008. His research expertise is in dynamical meteorology ranging from synoptic and planetary to mesoscale scales in space and time. He has a particular interest in the role of diabatic heating as well as bridging between weather and climate timescales. Another region of interest is atmosphere-ocean interactions in the mid and higher latitudes. 
Cheng Sun, PhD
Professor, Faculty of Geographical Science
Beijing Normal University
Beijing, China
Cheng Sun is a professor at Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University and has dedicated many years to researching climate dynamics, variability, and prediction. His research interests include the processes and mechanisms underlying ocean-land-atmosphere interactions, influence on climate patterns and variability, climate predictability across different timescales ranging from intra-seasonal to interdecadal, and climate change modeling and projection.
Hong Yan, PhD
Professor, Institute of Earth Environment
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xi'an, China
Prof. Hong Yan leads the Tropical Climate Change Group in the Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a Paleoclimatologist, with particular interests in understanding the decadal to synoptic scale climate variability, including PDO, AMO, ENSO, seasonality, MJO, and tropical cyclones, during the different temperature background of the past 20,000 years. Prof. Yan has developed some ultra-high (daily even hourly) resolution paleoclimate archives, which can obtain the information of extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones and rainstorms in the past. He is also working on promoting the deep integration and data assimilation of paleoclimate records and climate models.
Qiang Zhang, PhD
Professor, Department of Earth System Science
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China
Qiang Zhang is a professor at Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University. His research interests include quantifying emissions of atmospheric compositions, coupled human and atmospheric system, and mitigation pathways of greenhouse gases and air pollutants.
Advisory Editor
Efi Rousi, PhD
Efi is a climate scientist and is an in-house editor at Nature Communications, where she handles manuscripts related to physical climatology, oceanography, and climate impacts. She obtained her PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Free University of Berlin and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Her research focused on atmospheric circulation, climate change, and climate extremes. Efi is based in the Berlin office.
Editorial Board Members
Moetasim Ashfaq, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA
Marcelo Barreiro, PhD, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
Simona Bordoni, PhD, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA
Xavier Querol Carceller, PhD, Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research, Barcelona, Spain
Lijing Cheng, PhD, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Manuel Dall'Osto, PhD, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain
Jiwen Fan, PhD, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, WA, USA
Sue Grimmond, PhD, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Nazrul Islam, PhD, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudia Arabia
In-Sik Kang, PhD, Second Institute of Oceanography, Hangzhou, China
Sarah Kang, PhD, Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Noel Keenlyside, PhD, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Aslam Khalil, PhD, Portland State University, OR, USA
Daehyun Kim, PhD, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Prashant Kumar, PhD, University of Surrey, Surrey, UK
Elsa Mohino, PhD, University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Phillip Mote, PhD, Oregon State University, OR, USA
Hyacinth Nnamchi, PhD, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria
Colin O'Dowd, PhD, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
Biswajeet Pradhan, PhD, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Sara Pryor, PhD, Cornell University, NY, USA
Mathew Koll Roxy, PhD, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India
Lise Lotte Sørensen, PhD, Arctic Research Centre (ARC), Aarhus, Denmark
Masahiro Watanabe, PhD, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Ming Xue, PhD, University of Oklahoma, OK, USA
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