The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC) have recently issued the enrollment notice of the Young Scientist Summer Program. Liu Shigan, a Class 2020 doctoral student of the Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University has been selected into this program, and will go to the IIASA Headquarters in Austria to have a three-month academic exchange in the Energy-Climate-Environment (ECE) Program.

Letter of Invitation of IIASA YSSP 2024

The IIASA, founded in 1972 and headquartered in Austria, is an interdisciplinary, neutral, non-governmental and non-profit international research institution, enjoying a high reputation in the international academic community. As a main participant in the comprehensive assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the IIASA’s research results have an important impact on the decision-making of all countries around the world. The IIASA aims to contact and organize scientists from all over the world to carry out policy-oriented research work, and, through systematic analysis and modeling, address complex problems such as environment, energy, water, food, climate change and population growth that are difficult for a single country or a single discipline to handle independently. The ECE Program is one of the six programs of the IIASA, and its research goal is to provide scientific support for decision makers by analyzing the multiple benefits of policies in environment, climate and society, so as to meet the challenges in the process of sustainable development. Every year from 1977, the IIASA selects about 50 outstanding doctoral students from all over the world to participate in the YSSP program, and have a three-month academic exchange at the headquarters of Austrian IIASA. The National Natural Science Foundation of China provides financial support for the selected doctoral students from China.

Liu Shigan participates in an academic report

Liu Shigan obtained his bachelor’s degree from the School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, and was enrolled in the doctoral program in the DESS, Tsinghua University in 2020, mainly studying atmospheric PM_2.5 quantitative characterization and complex relationship between source and receptor. He has published one academic paper as the first author in Environmental Science & Technology, a top journal in the field of environment, and four academic papers as a co-author.

Written by Liu Shigan

Edited by Wang Jiayin

Reviewed by Zhang Qiang