I am currently undertaking a PhD student at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK, supervised by Dr. Zhonghua Zheng (Assistant Professor in Data Science & Environmental Analytics), Chair Professor David Topping (Professor of Digital Environment, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute), and Chair Professor Hugh Coe (Professor of Atmospheric Composition). I also serve as a reviewer for the ES&T Air and Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (JGRA)
My research interests encompass the development and application of advanced modeling and data-driven approaches to address key challenges in atmospheric science. Specifically, I focus on particle-resolved aerosol dynamic modeling to capture the detailed evolution of aerosol populations, cloud parcel modeling to investigate aerosol–cloud interactions, and the integration of machine learning techniques to enhance the prediction and understanding of complex atmospheric processes. I am particularly interested in exploring aerosol mixing states, the environmental behavior and impacts of nanoplastic pollutants and black carbon (BC), and their roles in cloud microphysics and climate interactions.
🎓 Educations
- 2023.09 - now, PhD Student, Environmental Science, The University of Manchester (UoM), Manchester, UK
- 2018.02 - 2021.02, MS, Environmental Engineering, University of Melbourne (UoM), Melbourne, Australia
- 2013.09 - 2017.06, BEng, Environmental Engineering, Shandong University (SDU), Jinan, China
💼 Working Experience & Activities
- 2025.03 - present: Coordinator for the Centre for Atmospheric Science (CAS) Seminar series (monthly), The University of Manchester, UK.
- 2025.05.28: Support for the Urban Climate Resilience Workshop at The University of Manchester.
- 2025.03: Support for the alumni panel event at The University of Manchester.
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2021.06 - 2023.08, Project manager, Shanghai Electric Environmental Protection Group, Shanghai, China.
- Responsibilities include full-cycle on-site project management, from process design to construction implementation.
- Main focus: Process design for domestic and pharmaceutical wastewater treatment, anaerobic equipment design, and commissioning.
- Executed projects:
- Fuzhou Pharmaceutical Wastewater EPC Project (4 million RMB scale);
- Inner Mongolia Pharmaceutical Wastewater EPC Project (20 million RMB scale).
📖 Teaching Experiment
- 2025.01 - 2025.06: Teaching Assistance (TA) for EART11200 - The Natural Scientist’s Toolkit, The University of Manchester, UK.
- 2025.01 - 2025.06: Teaching Assistance (TA) for EART60702 - Earth and Environmental Data Science, The University of Manchester, UK.
- 2024.08: Teaching Assistance (TA) for the undergraduate student exchange program between the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, China, and The University of Manchester, UK.
- Topic: Emulator development using AutoML with a case study on aerosol mixing state prediction
💬 Oral and Poster
- Integrating Simulations and Observations: A Foundation Model Approach to Aerosol Mixing State Index Estimation.
- 2025.04 - Oral - European Geosciences Union (EGU25), Vienna, Austria
- 2024.11 - Poster - Annual Aerosol Science Conference 2024, York, UK
- 2024.09 - Oral - NERC digital gathering 2024, Manchester, UK
📝 Publications
- Jiang, F., et al. (2025). A Review of Atmospheric Micro/Nanoplastics: Insights into Source and Fate for Modelling Studies. EarthArXiv.
- Jiang, F., Zheng, Z., Coe, H., Healy, R. M., Poulain, L., Gros, V., … & Riemer, N. (2025). Integrating Simulations and Observations: A Foundation Model for Estimating the Aerosol Mixing State Index. ACS ES&T Air.