Dr. Fuqing Zhang



Professor of Meteorology
Joint Appointment with the Department of Statistics

601A Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
Email: fzhang@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-0470

Education:

PhD -- North Carolina State University (2000)
MS -- Nanjing University (1994)
BS -- Nanjing University (1991)

Research Interests:

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Biography:

Dr. Fuqing Zhang is a Professor of Meteorology in the Department of Meteorology at the Pennsylvania State University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Statistics. He also holds adjunct professorship appointment at Texas A&M University and Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. His research interests include atmospheric dynamics and predictability, data assimilation, ensemble forecasting, tropical cyclones, gravity waves, mountain-plains/sea-breeze circulations, warm-season convection, and regional-scale climate. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in meteorology from Nanjing University, China in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and his Ph.D. in atmospheric science in 2000 from North Carolina State University.

He spent seven years as an assistant and then associate professor at Texas A & M University before coming to Penn State in 2008. In 2000, he spent a year and a half as a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Over the past few years during the summer and/or sabbatical leaves, he held various visiting scholarship appointments at various academic and research institutions including the Navy Research Laboratory in Monterey, California, the Chinese State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather in Beijing, China, Laboratoire de Meteorolgie Dynamique, École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

He has authored/co-authored nearly 80 peer reviewed journal publications and has given more than 100 keynote speeches or invited talks at various institutions and meetings. He has served as PI/co-PI for over 20 federal or state-sponsored research grants. He currently served as editor of Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (Academic Press), editor of Monthly Weather Review (AMS), and guest editor of Computing in Science & Engineering (IEEE).

In 2004, he received a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (the only atmospheric scientist awarded that year) and in 2007 he received the Outstanding Publication Award from the National Center for Atmospheric Research. In 2009, he was the sole recipient of the American Meteorological Society's 2009 Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award "for outstanding contributions to mesoscale dynamics, predictability and ensemble data assimilation." The award is given to young, promising atmospheric scientists who have shown outstanding ability and are under 40 years of age when nominated.