Dr Xu Wei received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Xiamen University, and his Ph.D. in atmospheric science from the National University of Ireland Galway. His main research focuses on the use of machine learning techniques to study the source of atmospheric pollutions, aerosol-cloud interactions, marine 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.

The research group is continuously recruiting special research assistants (postdocs), research assistants, and graduate students (including joint training and visiting students), and welcomes inquiries from students with backgrounds in environmental science, computer science, statistics, geographic information science, ecology, and other disciplines.

machine learning and environmental data;Physicochemical characteristics of atmospheric aerosols ;Source and impact of coastal aerosol; aerosol-cloud interaction

1. Zhong, H., Zhen, L., Yao, Q., Xiao, Y., Liu, J., Chen, B., and Xu, W.*: Understanding the spatial and seasonal variation of the ground-level ozone in Southeast China with an interpretable machine learning and multi-source remote sensing, Sci. Total Environ., 170570, 2024.
2. Xu, W., Ovadnevaite, J., Fossum, K. N., Lin, C., Huang, R.-J., Ceburnis, D., and O’Dowd, C.: Sea spray as an obscured source for marine cloud nuclei, Nat Geosci, 1–5, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00917-2, 2022.
3. Xu, W., Ovadnevaite, J., Fossum, K. N., Lin, C., Huang, R., O’Dowd, C., and Ceburnis, D.: 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, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jd033851, 2021.
4. Xu, W., Fossum, K. N., Ovadnevaite, J., Lin, C., Huang, R.-J., O’Dowd, C., and Ceburnis, D.: 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, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-21-8655-2021, 2021.
5. Xu, W., Ovadnevaite, J., Fossum, K. N., Lin, C., Huang, R.-J., O’Dowd, C., and Ceburnis, D.: 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, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-3777-2020, 2020.

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