Associate Professor Department of Ocean Science and Engineering
Li Ying, Associate Professor/Researcher/Doctoral Supervisor of the Department of Marine Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology. Director of the Center for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Southern University of Science and Technology. Member of the Atmospheric Physics and Atmospheric Environment Professional Committee of the Guangdong Meteorological Society and expert in air quality assurance in Shenzhen. The main research areas include remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols and their components, numerical simulation and control strategy research on the causes of secondary atmospheric pollution, as well as research on sea air interactions in the context of climate change. Published over 60 papers (with a total of 2200 citations) in authoritative international and domestic academic journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment, Environmental Science&Technology, Environmental Pollution, Journal of Geophysical Research, Science of the Total Environment, and Atmospheric Environment. Leaders of multiple projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s international (regional) cooperation projects, and the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Plan.
Personal Profile
Brief Introduction
LI, Ying, female, born in 1980. She got the Ph.D. degree at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Now she is an assistant professor at the Department of Ocean Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).
Research Area and Methods
Her research including: Remote sensing of ocean and atmosphere, atmospheric physics, atmospheric environment, and ocean-air interaction. The research methods includes the application of satellite remote sensing, numerical simulation combined with field observations. She aims to study the interaction between human activities and atmospheric pollution.
Achievements
With the application of atmospheric remote sensing and numerical simulation, she has made a series of achievements in studying the mechanism of air pollution in the Pearl River Delta (PRD).She has undertaken or participated in a number of research projects about air pollution, involving aspects of data analysis, emission inventory, air quality model improvement, source apportionment, controlling strategy, and health exposure, etc.
Pubulications
In the past five years, she has published 20 SCI papers on journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Remote Sensing of Environment, Environmental Pollution, Journal of Geophysical Research, Science of the Total Environment, and Atmospheric Environment, with a total of 300 Citations.
Education | ||
2006.09-2011.05 | Ph. D. | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Division of Environment, Atmospheric Environmental Science |
2003.09-2006.07 | M.Sc. | Peking University, China, Department of Atmospheric Science |
1998.09-2002.07 | B.Sc. | Bohai University, China, Department of Physics |
Work Experience | |
2016.12-present | Assistant Professor, Department of Ocean Science & Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology |
2015.04-2016.12 | Research Assistant Professor, Fok Ying Tung Graduate School, HKUST |
2011.07-2015.03 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Division of Environment, HKUST |
2008.09-2009.03 | Visiting Scholar, University of Tennessee |
2002.09-2003.07 | Research Assistant, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Peking University |
Ocean-Air Group at SUSTech.
Our scientific goals are to understand
- the physical and chemical properties of the Ocean and Urban atmosphere
- the physical and chemical processes involved in air pollution formation
- the interaction between the human activities and the air quality / climate
Our major approaches
- modeling meteorology, chemical transport and ocean-air interaction at multiple scales
- analyzing atmospheric and ocean observations from ground-based, ship-based, and satellites-based sites.
Our on-going research topics
- aerosol hygroscopic growth and optics
- air pollution remote sensing
- air pollution numerical modeling
- frontal surge modeling
Research
Remote sensing of atmospheric environment and pollution prevention and control
Air pollution and greenhouse gas assimilation inversion
Sea land air interaction
Teaching
Main courses: Introduction to Atmospheric Science, Introduction to Air Pollution, Research methods of Marine Atmospheric Science
Lecture course: Introduction to Oceanography
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Her expertise is in atmospheric physics and the environment. Her research interests are currently focused on monitoring and modelling secondary air pollution formation, control strategies and impact assessments. Her research activities cover a broad range of topics, including synoptic and mesoscale meteorological impacts on haze events and photochemical smog, pollution emissions and source apportionment, ozone formation regime analysis, satellite remote sensing and lidar measurements of boundary layer pollution, air quality impacts of ship and vehicular emission control, and exposure and health risk assessments. Her scientific research began with studies on the air pollution formation in the Pearl River Delta region of China and extended to many regions of the globe by integrating satellite remote sensing, numerical models, and field measurements.
Her representative academic achievements are:
(1) She have developed several new methods of aerosol component (PM2.5, Black Carbon) remote sensing, which provide valuable datasets for the further air quality, climate and health risk studies.
(2) She systematically investigated the influencing factors of ozone formation and variation in the PRD region — the finding change of conventional views, which are essential to ozone formation mechanism studies and greatly support the pollution control strategies formulation.
(3) She have also developed new methods for assessing the effectiveness of emission control strategies, and quantifying the natural-driven impact and emission-driven impact on the observed annual air quality, which helps to quantify the effectiveness of emission control measures or reduction during large mega-events and COVID-19 events of China.
(4) She set up the Centre for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research at SUSTech (COAST), which included an Oceanic atmosphere Lab, and an Integrated Atmospheric Environment and Climate Monitoring Supersite.