Atmospheric chemistry and physics, particularly on aerosol-cloud-climate interactions, and atmospheric multiphase chemistry. 160 peer-reviewed articles including 7 hot papers (top 0.1%), 17 highly-cited papers (top 1%) and a number of publications in highlight journals (6 in Science, 14 in PNAS, Science Advances, Nature Geoscience etc.) with > 16500 citations and h-index of 62.

2003-2008      Ph.D., Peking University, Beijing, China

1999-2003      Bachelor of Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

   

Since 2023    Director and professor, State Key Laboratory of Atmospheric Environment and Extreme Meteorology, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2012-2023     Head of Atmosphere-Biosphere-Cloud Interactions Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

2022-2023     Distinguished guest professor, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

2020-2023     Distinguished guest professor, Academy of Environmental Sciences Shanghai China

2017-2019     Deputy Director, Max Planck Institute of Chemistry-Jinan University Joint Research Center for the Anthropocene, China/Germany

2014-2017     Guest professor, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

2008-2012     Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany 

   

Over 160 peer-reviewed articles including 7 hot papers (top 0.1%), 17 highly-cited papers (top 1%) and a number of publications in highlight journals (6 in Science, 3 in PNAS, 2 in Science Advances, 3 in Nature Geoscience, 2 in Nature Communications, 1 in Chem, 3 in One Earth) with wide coverage in international press.

My recent Science paper received an AltMetric Score of 9500 and was ranked top 10 of over 80 thousand publications in Science and in the top 0.001% of over 25 million research outputs worldwide. 

Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate & Web of Science, 2021, 2022, 2023)

Web of Science: h-index = 53, > 11800 total citations

Google Scholar: h-index = 62, > 16500 total citations

For full list of statistics:

Web of Science https://www.researcherid.com/rid/A-6226-2010

Google Scholar https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=BjCkRJwAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 

Selected Publications (as first or corresponding author)

1.        Su, H., Y. F. Cheng and U. Pöschl (2020). "New Multiphase Chemical Processes Influencing Atmospheric Aerosols, Air Quality, and Climate in the Anthropocene." Accounts of Chemical Research 53(10): 2034-2043.

2.        Zhang, Y., H. Su, S. Kecorius, N. Ma, Z. Wang, Y. Sun, Q. Zhang, U. Pöschl, A. Wiedensohler, M. O. Andreae and Y. Cheng (2023). "Extremely low-volatility organic coating leads to underestimation of black carbon climate impact." One Earth 6(2): 158-166.

3.        Zheng, G. J., H. Su, S. W. Wang, M. O. Andreae, U. Pöschl and Y. F. Cheng (2020). "Multiphase buffer theory explains contrasts in atmospheric aerosol acidity." Science 369(6509): 1374.

4.        Su, H., Y. F. Cheng, R. Oswald, T. Behrendt, I. Trebs, F. X. Meixner, M. O. Andreae, P. Cheng, Y. Zhang and U. Pöschl (2011). "Soil Nitrite as a Source of Atmospheric HONO and OH Radicals." Science 333(6049): 1616-1618.

5.        Wang, S. W., H. Su, C. C. Chen, W. Tao, D. G. Streets, Z. F. Lu, B. Zheng, G. R. Carmichael, J. Lelieveld, U. Pöschl and Y. F. Cheng (2020). "Natural gas shortages during the "coal-to-gas" transition in China have caused a large redistribution of air pollution in winter 2017." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117(49): 31018-31025.

6.        Ditas, J., N. Ma, Y. Zhang, D. Assmann, M. Neumaier, H. Riede, E. Karu, J. Williams, D. Scharffe, Q. Q. Wang, J. Saturno, J. P. Schwarz, J. M. Katich, G. R. McMeeking, A. Zahn, M. Hermann, C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer, M. O. Andreae, U. Pöschl, H. Su and Y. F. Cheng (2018). "Strong impact of wildfires on the abundance and aging of black carbon in the lowermost stratosphere." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115(50): E11595-E11603.

7.        Cheng, Y. F., G. J. Zheng, C. Wei, Q. Mu, B. Zheng, Z. B. Wang, M. Gao, Q. Zhang, K. B. He, G. Carmichael, U. Pöschl and H. Su (2016). "Reactive nitrogen chemistry in aerosol water as a source of sulfate during haze events in China." Science Advances 2(12): 11.

8.        Mu, Q., M. Shiraiwa, M. Octaviani, N. Ma, A. J. Ding, H. Su, G. Lammel, U. Pöschl and Y. F. Cheng (2018). "Temperature effect on phase state and reactivity controls atmospheric multiphase chemistry and transport of PAHs." Science Advances 4(3): 8.

9.        Wang, W., X. Li, Y. Cheng, D. D. Parrish, R. Ni, Z. Tan, Y. Liu, S. Lu, Y. Wu, S. Chen, K. Lu, M. Hu, L. Zeng, M. Shao, C. Huang, X. Tian, K. M. Leung, L. Chen, M. Fan, Q. Zhang, F. Rohrer, A. Wahner, U. Pöschl, H. Su and Y. Zhang (2024). "Ozone pollution mitigation strategy informed by long-term trends of atmospheric oxidation capacity." Nature Geoscience 17(1): 20-25.

10.    Reutter, P., H. Su, J. Trentmann, M. Simmel, D. Rose, S. S. Gunthe, H. Wernli, M. O. Andreae and U. Pöschl (2009). "Aerosol- and updraft-limited regimes of cloud droplet formation: influence of particle number, size and hygroscopicity on the activation of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN)." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 9(18): 7067-7080.

Our team has diverse research interests, primarily focused on the following areas:

(1) Aerosol chemistry

(2) Atmospheric Particle Simulation

(3) Climate and Weather Extreme Mechanism

(4) Artificial Intelligence for the Extreme

​2024                 Coordinator, President’s International Fellowship Initiative - PIFI Group program, CAS

2023-2028        PI, CAS Strategic Science and Technology Pilot Project (12 M Eur), CAS

2023                 For Future Network Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2023               Standing Committee Member of the Committee of Pollution Reduction and Carbon Reduction, Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences

2023               Member of the Green and Low-Carbon Committee, Overseas-educated Scholars Association of China

Since 2022     Editor, AGU Advances

Since 2021     Spokesman of Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Multiphase Chemistry Department

Since 2021     Member of the editorial advisory board of ACS Environmental Au

Since 2021     Member of the editorial board of Advances in Atmospheric Sciences (AAS)

2020- 2024     Associate editor, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmosphere (JGR)

Since 2020     Associate editor, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT)

2019               Fellow of the Exploratory Round Table Conference between the Max Planck Society and Chinese Academy of Sciences

Since 2012     Associate editor, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP)

 

·       Reviewer for Science, PNAS, Science Advances, Nature Geosciences, Nature Communications, Angewandte  Chemie, ACP, JGR, GRL, ES&T, etc.

·       Grant panelist/reviewer for ERC, NSF, NSFC, ANR, SNSF etc.

·       Session convener/chair, keynote/invited speaker in AGU, EGU conferences etc, invited presentations at numerous scientific institutions and agencies in Europe, America, and Asia

·       Examiner and reviewer for PhD and master thesis at JGU (Mainz, Germany), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, China), Peking University (Beijing, China), and Nanjing University (Nanjing, China)

·       Invited commentator on air pollution control by Ministry of Environment Protection of China

AAAS fellow