Global environment change and sustainability

Integrated modeling of water-food-energy-ecosystem

Climate change impact assessment and adaptation

Application of machine learning and remote sensing in ecohydrology

PhD, Ecohydrology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011-2016)
BS, Agricultural Resources and Environment, Sichuan Agricultural University, China (2007-2011)

Research Associate, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan (2018-2023)

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan (2016-2018)

Linfei Yu, Guoyong Leng, Qiuhong Tang, Chenxi Lu, Yang Gao, Lei Yao, Shunxiang Fan, Jiping Dong, Haiyang Tu, Zhipin Ai, Xiaoyong Liao. Land-atmosphere interactions mitigate the direct surface-drying effects of land use and cover change. One Earth, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.oneear.2025.101210.

Zhipin Ai, Julien Boulange, Xin Zhao, Fadong Li, Rashid Mahmood, Kiril Manevski, Yonghui Yang, Guirui Yu. Contribution of irrigation to the production of maize, wheat, and rice in the major global producing countries. National Science Review, 2024, doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwae374.

Zhipin Ai, Xin Zhao, Julien Boulange, Fadong Li, Rashid Mahmood, Qiuying Zhang, Yonghui Yang, Jun Xia. How will climate change affect the sources of global irrigation water withdrawal? Science Bulletin, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2024.08.032.

Andi Besse Rimba, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Yuzuru Kawamitsu, Taikan Oki, Masashi Kiguchi, Daisuke Tokuda, Naota Hanasaki, Zhipin Ai, Toshichika Iizumi, Noriko Nozaki, Wonsik Kim. Synergies overcome trade-offs between climate policy and water-related SDG targets. Hydrological Research Letters, 2024, doi: 10.3178/hrl.18.58.

Rashid Mahmood, Shaofeng Jia, Zhipin Ai. Projected intensified hydrological processes in the three‐river headwater region, Qinghai Tibetan Plateau. Water Resources Research, 2024, doi: 10.1029/2023WR036072.

Ning Wang, Zhipin Ai, Qiuying Zhang, Peifang Leng, Yunfeng Qiao, Zhao Li, Chao Tian, Hefa Cheng, Gang Chen, Fadong Li. Impacts of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K) fertilizers on maize yields, nutrient use efficiency, and soil nutrient balance: Insights from a long-term diverse NPK omission experiment in the North China Plain. Field Crops Research, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.fcr.2024.109616.

Noriko Nozaki, Zhipin Ai, Naota Hanasaki, Toshichika Iizumi, Masashi Kiguchi, Wonsik Kim, Taikan Oki, Andi Besse Rimba, Daisuke Tokuda, Yukiko Hirabayashi. Side effects of climate mitigation and adaptation to sustainable development related to water and food. Environmental Research Letters, 2023, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ace922.

Zhipin Ai, Naota Hanasaki. Simulation of crop yield using the global hydrological model H08 (crp.v1). Geoscientific Model Development, 2023, doi: 10.5194/gmd-16-3275-2023.

Zhipin Ai, Fumiko Ishihama, Naota Hanasaki. Mapping current and future seawater desalination plants globally using species distribution models. Water Resources Research, 2022, doi: 10.1029/2021WR031156.

Zhipin Ai, Naota Hanasaki, Vera Heck, Tomoko Hasegawa, Shinichiro Fujimori. Global bioenergy with carbon capture and storage potential is largely constrained by sustainable irrigation. Nature Sustainability, 2021, doi: 10.1038/s41893-021-00740-4.

Zhipin Ai, Naota Hanasaki, Vera Heck, Tomoko Hasegawa, Shinichiro Fujimori. Simulating second-generation herbaceous bioenergy crop yield using the global hydrological model H08 (v.bio1). Geoscientific Model Development, 2020, doi: 10.5194/gmd-13-6077-2020.

Zhipin Ai, Qinxue Wang, Yonghui Yang, Kiril Manevski, Shuang Yi, Xin Zhao. Variation of gross primary production, evapotranspiration and water use efficiency for global croplands. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.107935.

Young Scientist Best Paper Award (2021), International Association of Chinese Youth in Water Science (CYWater)