Invited by Professor Huang Tao from the College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, and the Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution Prediction and Control in Gansu Province, Associate Professor Li Wei from Tsinghua University will be visiting our university for academic exchange and delivering a lecture on August 14, 2023. We warmly welcome all faculty members and students to attend!

Speaker: Associate Professor Li Wei Affiliation: Tsinghua University

Title: Impact of Land Use on Terrestrial Carbon Sinks and Its Feedback to Climate

Moderator: Professor Huang Tao Affiliation: College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University

Time: August 14, 2023 (Monday), 09:30 AM

Venue: Room 1615, Guanyun Building

Expert Profile:

Dr. Li Wei is an Associate Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University and a doctoral supervisor. He was selected for the National High-Level Young Talents Program in 2019 and received the Tsinghua University-Lenovo Group Computational Earth Science Young Talent Award in the same year. His research interests include land use change and carbon cycling, forest disturbances, carbon neutrality, and climate change mitigation. His research has revealed the multifaceted mechanisms of tropical forest degradation and biophysical processes. Using a self-developed model and database for bioenergy crops, he has elucidated the carbon sequestration potential and climate effects of future energy crop cultivation. He has published over 90 SCI papers with more than 7000 citations on Google Scholar. Several of his first/corresponding authored papers have been published in high-impact journals such as Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Nature Sustainability, and PNAS.

College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University 

August 12, 2023