Congbin FU
Professor
fcb@nju.edu.cn
Career Overview
Prof. Congbin Fu, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Foreign member of Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, Honorary Doctorate of the University of Gothenburg and world well-known climatologist, has been working in School of Atmospheric Sciences at Nanjing University since 2009. He directs the Institute for Climate and Global Change Research (ICGCR) and the Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change of Jiangsu Province. Prof. Fu is one of the Chinese scientists in initiating the international program on Global Change Research and has accomplished a number of academic achievements. He is the first one who proposed the theory and method in differentiating the El Nino patterns based on the zonal sea surface temperature profile in the Equatorial Pacific, which is also well known as 'Fu D-F profile'. He is the first one who discover the impacts of large-scale human-induced land cover change on Asia monsoon.
Prof. Fu has initiated and directed the regional model intercomparison project (RMIP) for Asia. He is one of the main instruments in the establishment of the Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Studies (MAIRS), the first regional project of ESSP. He has published 11 books and more than 280 papers in peer-reviewed journals. For his distinguished contribution to climate science, Prof. Fu had won a series of awards, including China's State Natural Sciences Award (the 2nd Class Award) and several outstanding research awards of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Education
| 1962-1967 | Graduate program in Climatology: air-sea interaction study - Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) |
| 1957-1962 | Undergraduate program in Climatology - Nanjing University |
Work Experience
| 2009- | Professor, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University |
| 1978-2008 | Researcher, Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia (RCE-TEA), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS |
| 1968-1978 | Researcher, Institute of Geography, CAS |
| 1991-1992 | Visiting scholar, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration |
| 1981-1983 | Visiting scholar, University of Colorado |
Research Interests
Air-sea-land interaction
Multiple scale variability of Monsoon climate and abrupt climate change
Aridity trend in Northern China
Development of regional climate and earth system models
Integrated observation and experiment of earth system process
Global change and human impact/adaptation
Teaching Interests
Global change
Climate system change
Awards
| 1982 | Second Prize for Major Scientific and Technological Achievements of the Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 1991 | Zhou Peiyuan Special Award for International Science and Technology Exchange |
| 1994 | Third Prize of Natural Science of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2004 | National Natural Science Award (second class) |
Honors and Positions
| 1990-2018 | Member of ICCL/IAMAS/IUGG |
| 1990-1996 | Scientific Committee Member of IGBP |
| 1995-2008 | Member of Scientific Planning Group of ANP (Asian-Pacific Network for Global Change Research) Director of START Regional Center for Temperate East Asia |
| 1998-2002 | Scientific Committee Member of GAIM/IGBP |
| 1996-2003 | Vice President of Pacific Science Association |
| 2003 | Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2005-2009 | Member of AAMP (Asia and Australia Monsoon Panel) |
| 2005 | Member of CEOP II ITTP |
| 2005-2011 | Executive member of ICSU (International Council of Scientific Unions) |
| 2006-2010 | Vice President of CAST (China Association for Science and Technology) |
| 2007 | Honorary Doctorate of University of Gothenburg |
| 2007-2011 | President of Pacific Science Association |
| 2007-2013 | Chair of Scientific Committee Member of MAIRS (Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study) |
| 2009 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University Outstanding Chinese Visiting Scholars Award Director of ICGCR (Institute of Climate and Global Change Research), Nanjing University |
| 2009-2017 | Chair of Academic Committee for RCE-TEA (Key Laboratory of Regional Climate-Environment for Temperate East Asia), Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| 2013 | Director of CICCC (Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Climate Change) |
| 2014 | Member of Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters |
| 2015- | Co-chair of Scientific Committee for Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences (JirLATEST) Member of the Academic Committee of Nanjing University |
| 2016- | Member of International Cooperation Department for Science and Technology Commission of Ministry of Education |