Jiacan Yuan
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
& Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University
Prof. Jiacan Yuan is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Fudan University, China. She specializes in regional climate change projection and impact assessment. Her research group develops innovative modeling frameworks to advance climate change projections and their impact assessments, including:
1. A framework that allows high-resolution projections for climate extremes and further engages in impact assessment in county-level administrative units;
2. a statistical emulator for dynamic sea level rise projection;
3. Quantitative risk analyses of humid-heat extremes and coastal floods due to rise in sea level under varying scenarios of GHG emissions.
These methodological advances have become integral components of major climate service platforms. Notably, her climate projection framework is implemented as a core module in the Data-driven Spatial Climate Impact Model (DSCIM), which serves as the computational engine for the Human Climate Horizons platform of the United Nations Development Program (https://horizons.hdr.undp.org/#/).
Prof. Yuan was received the National Early Career Award in 2023. She has actively contributed to major international scientific assessments, serving as a contributing author for Chapter 9 of Working Group I in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and co-authoring The 2022 China Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. As a Scientific Committee member of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) CORDEX Flagship Pilot Study on Urban Environments and Regional Climate Change, she facilitates global collaborations in urban climatology research. She further contributes to scholarly communication through editorial roles at SCI-indexed journals including Urban Climate and Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Science, fostering knowledge dissemination in atmospheric sciences.
Research Interests
1. Weather extremes
2. Sea level rise
3. Climate dynamics
4. Economic impacts of climate change
5. Urban climate
Education
Ph.D., Meteorology, Peking University, Beijing, China, 2012
– Visiting student, Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, USA, 2008 ∼ 2010
B.S., Meteorology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, 2006
Research Experience
8/2025 – Present Professor, Fudan University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences / Institute of Atmospheric Sciences
11/2019 – 7/2025 Junior Research Fellow, Fudan University, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences / Institute of Atmospheric Sciences
11/2018 – 10/2019 Assistant Research Professor, Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, USA
11/2015 – 10/2018 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rutgers University, School of Arts and Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, USA
09/2014 – 10/2015 Research Associate, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Earth and Ocean Sciences, Durham, NC, USA
10/2012 – 08/2014 Postdoctoral Fellow, Peking University, School of Physics, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Beijing, China
09/2006 – 06/2012 Research Assistant, Peking University, School of Physics, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Beijing, China
09/2008 – 06/2010 Visiting Research Scholar, Pennsylvania State University, Meteorology Department, State College, PA, USA
Teaching Experience
2023, Instructor, Habitable Earth and Human Future, Fudan University
2020 & 2021 & 2023, Instructor, Habitable Earth (ATMO110002), Fudan University
2017, Instructor, Building and Maintaining a Habitable Planet (01:460:203), Rutgers University