Hongwei Sun, Ph.D.

Hongwei Sun earned his Ph.D. in environmental sciences from Harvard University in 2023. Following a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Washington, he joined the University of Hawaii at Manoa as an assistant professor in 2025. He is focusing on developing and applying different types of numerical models to study multiscale atmospheric processes. His primary research interests include: (1) large-scale stratospheric transport, dynamics, and aerosol processes, (2) small-scale aerosol–cloud interactions within the marine boundary layer, and (3) the application of (1) and (2) to climate intervention (geoengineering).