Fangqun Yu, Ph.D.

Fangqun Yu obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of California, Los Angeles in atmospheric science. Currently, he is a tenured faculty member of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the University at Albany, State University of New York. His research has focused on the formation of particles and contrails in aircraft plumes, theories of new particle formation in the atmosphere, size-resolved particle microphysics, and climatic and environmental impacts of atmospheric particles. He develops and applies a size-resolved advanced particle microphysics (APM) model across plume, local, and global scales. The APM model has been coupled with widely used community models, including GESO-Chem, WRF-Chem, WRF-CMAQ, CESM2, and E3SM. His recent research employing APM at both plume and global scales has shed new insights into SRM via SAI. His group is also working on connecting the contrail cirrus study to CCT and shipping emissions to MCB, the other two proposed approaches of SRM. With over 180 peer-reviewed publications and a Google Scholar h-index of 57, his work spans fundamental particle microphysics, aerosol-cloud-climate interactions, contrail formation and climate implications, climate intervention, health effects of ultrafine particles, and machine learning applications in global aerosol modeling.