Dr. Jiwen Fan is the Deputy Division Director of the Environmental Science Division. Before joining Argonne National Laboratory in 2023, she was a Laboratory Fellow and an Earth Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Dr. Fan’s research encompasses atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, cloud physics, convective systems, severe weather, aerosol-precipitation-climate interactions, land-atmosphere interactions, and human-earth system interactions. Her work has improved the fundamental understanding of aerosol impacts on deep convective storms, precipitation, weather, and climate, and gained new understanding of how our changing environment (e.g., anthropogenic climate change, urbanization, and wildfires) impact severe convective storms and weather hazards. Her research has transformed previous views on how tiny aerosol particles can change precipitation intensity and radiative forcing and how climate change, urbanization, and wildfires can affect the projection of extreme precipitation and large hail. She has led or co-led several multi-institute projects and provided strong scientific leadership.

Beyond contributing to the fundamental science, Dr. Fan has advanced model capabilities in simulations and predictions of aerosols, clouds and aerosol-cloud interactions across a wide range of scales from large-eddy to mesoscale weather models and global climate models. She has been leading the development of a new cloud microphysics scheme and the improvement of aerosol wet removal by deep convection for DOE’s Energy and Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) version 3, to improve model performances in mesoscale convective systems (MCSs), aerosol forcing, heavy precipitation, and historical surface temperature.

Education

• Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, 2007
• M.S., Environmental Engineering, University of Central Florida, 2002
• M.S., Environmental Science, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing Campus), 1999
• B.S., Chemistry, Hunan University of Science & Technology, Hunan, China, 1996

Awards and Honors (selected)

• Fellow, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2022
• Laboratory Fellow, PNNL, 2021
• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Scientific and Technological Activities Commission (STAC) Outstanding Service Award, 2018.
• Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research award, 2017
• Outstanding Service as Chair of Atmospheric Chemistry Committee in AMS, 2012-2017
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) ASCENT award, 2015
• Ronald L. Brodzinski Award for Early Career Exceptional Achievement, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2014.
• Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research, Texas A&M University, 2006.
• NASA Earth System Science (ESS) Fellowship, 2004-2007.

Publications

Dr. Fan has published over 120 peer-reviewed publications, with original research published in Science, PNAS, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Science Advances, etc. The most recent IPCC report AR6 cited 7 of her papers. Many of her studies have been high-cited and widely featured by various national and international news outlets such as NPR, National Geographic, NBC, BBC, German NPR, and Cosmos.

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