Work Experience
2024- Xinghua Distinguished Chair Professor at Tsinghua University
2012-2018 Assistant Dean for Research of the Faculty of Science, University of Gothenburg
2009-2012 Executive Director of the International Council for Science (ICSU)
2007- The August Röhss Chair in Physical Geography at the University of Gothenburg
2006-2007 Director for ‘Gothenburg Atmospheric Science Centre’
1993-2024 Senior Lecturer in Physical Meteorology at Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden in 1993. Promoted to Associate Professor in 1996. Became a Full Professor of Physical Meteorology in 2000
1992-1993 Postdoc working on developing a simple atmosphere model for studying air-sea interactions, at the Department of Physics II, Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
1993- Senior Lecturer in Physical Meteorology at Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden in 1993. Promoted to Associate Professor in 1996. Became a Full Professor of Physical Meteorology in 2000
1992 Postdoc working on using a regional air quality model to study dry deposition, at the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
1988-1992 Ph.D. student at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz working on developing a two-dimensional climate model for air chemistry studies under the guidance of Prof. Paul J. Crutzen at Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
1983-1988 Personal Assistant to the Director and Research Assistant at the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Research works concern climate productivity of crops and water balances for northern China during 1984 and 1985, crop water requirements and evapotranspiration during 1985 and 1986, and land surface process modeling in the global climate model during 1987 and 1988.
