Ruizhi Zhan (2022-now)

PKU graduate student, working on the habitable zone around White Dwarfs and GCM simulations of hot rocky exoplanets.

Yichen Gao (2023-now)

PKU graduate student, working on moist convection in planetary atmospheres and Hycean worlds.

Haolin Li (2025-now)

PKU graduate student, working on surfaces of hot ‘lava world’ exoplanets and cloudy GCM simulations of hot rocky exoplanets.

Boya Qin (2025-now)

PKU graduate student, working on the spectroscopic foundations of planetary climates.

Alumni

Heng Quan (2021-2022)

PKU undergraduate student, worked on using machine learning to inform Solar Geoengineering Strategies. Now a PhD student at Princeton University.

Jacky Zhao (2021-2022)

Cambridge undergraduate student, worked on atmospheric optics in exoplanet atmospheres. Now a Master’s student at Cambridge.

Jiaru Shi (2022-2023)

PKU undergraduate student, worked on how tidal heating affects exoplanet climates. Now a PhD student at MIT.

Johannes Hoerner (2023)

Academic exchange student from University of Vienna. Worked on Snowball Earth.

Zhiping Zhang (2023-2024)

PKU undergraduate student, developed a simple analytic model to predict Earth’s albedo and how it changes under warming. Now a Master’s student at ETH Zürich.

Xintong Lyu (2021-2026)

PKU graduate student, working on surfaces and observations of airless exoplanets. Now teaching high school physics.

Yue Xu (2021-2026)

PKU graduate student, working on climate feedbacks and climate modeling. Now a postdoc at Ocean University of China.