Jun Wang

Jun Wang is James E. Ashton Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering and Assistant Director for the Iowa Technology Institute in the University of Iowa.  His research focuses on the integration of satellite remote sensing and chemistry transport model to study air quality, wildfires, aerosol-cloud interaction, and land-air interaction. He has authored 185 research articles, co-edited two books, served as a science team member for 10 satellite missions (including inaugural team member for TEMPO and MAIA) and the NASA’s senior review panel for Earth science (twice). He conducted his Ph.D. work in atmospheric sciences in the University of Alabama–Huntsville in 2005 under the support of NASA’s Earth system science graduate fellowship and his postdoctoral work in Harvard University with the support of NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellowship in 2005-2007. He was a recipient of NASA’s New Investigator Program award in 2009 and AGU’s Atmospheric Science ASCENT Award in 2022. He is an associate editor for Atmospheric Measurement Technique and Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere, and an editor for Earth Sciences Reviews. More about his research team can be found at: http://arroma.uiowa.edu