Professor Pingqing Fu Awarded “Newton Advanced Fellowship”

Professor Fu Pinqging from the Institute of Surface-Earth System Science，Tianjin University, has recently secured a three-year Newton Advanced Fellowship, from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and The Royal Society (UK), to work on a project entitled “Coupling of organic and inorganic aerosol systems in coastal atmosphere: impact on secondary organic aerosol formation (COIAS)”. His British partner is Prof. Roy Harrison from the University of Birmingham. (http://bic.nsfc.gov.cn/Show.aspx?AI=1094)

The “Newton Advanced Fellowship”, a talent fund jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Royal Society (RS) or the Academy of Medical Sciences, aims to encourage exchanges and cooperation between Chinese young scholars and British partners and consequently promote the long-term substantive cooperation between China and Britain. The fund enjoys a high international reputation, and recipients are subject to rigorous international peer-review. This year, only twenty-two applications were funded after processes of open call, international peer-review, and consultation by both agencies.

Prof. Fu’s recent research interests include the study of organics in atmospheric aerosols, rain, snow, cloud and fog waters at a molecular level as it relates to long-range transport, photochemical degradation, and climate change. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals. Prof. Fu won the Fund for Distinguished Young Scholar of NSFC in 2016 and has been a continuous holder of the grants from Chinese Academy of Sciences and NSF of China. He is also the Associate Editor of journals like npj Climate and Atmospheric Science and Science of the Total Environment.

By the Institute of Surface-Earth System Science

Editor: Eva Yin