Dr Xu Wei received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Xiamen University in 2014 and 2017, and his Ph.D. in atmospheric science from the National University of Ireland Galway in 2021. His main research focuses on the physicochemical properties of marine aerosols and the mechanisms of marine secondary aerosol formation. He has published more than 40 papers in journals such as Nature Geoscience, PNAS, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, Environment Science & Technology Letters, and Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmosphere.

1. Xu, W. et al. Sea spray as an obscured source for marine cloud nuclei. Nat Geosci 1–5 (2022) doi:10.1038/s41561-022-00917-2.
2. Xu, W. et al. The impact of aerosol size-dependent hygroscopicity and mixing state on the cloud condensation nuclei potential over the north-east Atlantic. Atmos Chem Phys 21, 8655–8675 (2021).
3. Xu, W. et al. Seasonal Trends of Aerosol Hygroscopicity and Mixing State in Clean Marine and Polluted Continental Air Masses Over the Northeast Atlantic. J Geophys Res Atmospheres 126, (2021).
4. Xu, W. et al. Aerosol hygroscopicity and its link to chemical composition in the coastal atmosphere of Mace Head: marine and continental air masses. Atmos Chem Phys 20, 3777–3791 (2020).

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