Prof. Qiang Fu
is the Calvin Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington
(UW) in Seattle. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Peking
University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Utah. He was on the
faculty at Canada’s Dalhousie University before joining the UW in 2000, where
he has been a full professor since 2006. His main research interests include
atmospheric radiation and cloud processes, atmospheric remote sensing,
cloud/aerosol/radiation/climate interactions, stratospheric circulation and
stratosphere–troposphere exchanges/coupling, and climate and climate change. He
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Washington State
Academy of Sciences (WSAS) and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society
(AMS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His many honors include the Alexander von
Humboldt Research Award and the AMS Jule G. Charney Medal, recognizing his distinguished
and continuing achievements in original research.
