Background Information: 

Feng Yu is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor of Ningbo Oriental University of Technology (tentative name). He is mainly engaged in the research of global vegetation change and its ecological and hydrological effects. He has published more than 50 SCI papers, including 24 SCI papers as the first/corresponding author (including co-authors), and has been cited more than 3,600 times by Google Scholar, with an H-index of 33. Some of the research results were selected as the cover articles and highlight articles of Nature Sustainability, which became the supporting materials of the FAO report, and were widely reported by domestic and foreign media (China Science News, Mongabay, The Guardian, etc.). He won the first prize of the 8th Tang Xiaoyan Environmental Science Innovation Scholarship and was selected into the 2023&2024 "Global Top 2% Scientist Ranking". The bachelor's, master's and doctoral dissertations won the Excellent/Best Dissertation Awards from Sichuan University, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the University of Hong Kong, respectively.

Research Field:

His current research focuses on global vegetation change and its eco-hydrological effects, and focuses on the pattern, mechanism and environmental impact of tropical vegetation carbon cycle processes. Pay attention to the response and adaptation of vegetation under global environmental change; In-depth analysis of ecosystem water and carbon cycle processes and driving factors; To explore the interaction mechanism between vegetation and climate, and to provide a scientific basis for coping with environmental changes and ensuring ecological security through multidisciplinary integration and advanced technology.

Educational Background:

2018-2022: PhD (Water and Environmental Engineering), The University of Hong Kong 

2015-2018: M.S. (Agricultural Soil and Water Engineering), Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

2011-2015: BS (Agricultural Water Conservancy Engineering), Sichuan University

Work Experience:

2023-Present: Associate Professor, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo

2022-2023: Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, France. 

Awards and Honors:

2023: National Young Talents Program

2023: Li Ka Shing Prizes, The University of Hong Kong

Representative Works:

General Information

He has published more than 50 SCI papers, with a total citation of more than 3600 and an H-index of 33 (Source: Google Scholar).

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2pJ66KkAAAAJ&hl=en

10 Representative Works (* refers to the corresponding author)

1. Feng, Y., et al.2024, Global patterns and drivers of tropical aboveground carbon changes, Nature Climate Change, 14: 1064-1070.

2. Wu, J., Feng, Y., et al.2024, Earth greening mitigates hot temperature extremes despite the effect being dampened by rising CO2, One Earth, 7: 100-109.

3.Feng, Y., et al. 2022, Doubling of annual forest carbon loss over the tropics during the early twenty-first century. Nature Sustainability 5: 444-451 

4.Feng, Y., et al. 2021, Upward expansion and acceleration of forest clearance in the mountains of Southeast Asia. Nature Sustainability 4: 892-899. 

5.Feng, Y., et al. 2020, Machine learning models to quantify and map daily global solar radiation and photovoltaic power. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 118: 109393.

6.Feng, Y., et al. 2021, High-resolution assessment of solar radiation and energy potential in China. Energy Conversion and Management 240: 114265.

7.Feng, Y., et al. 2019, Evaluation of temperature-based machine learning and empirical models for predicting daily global solar radiation. Energy Conversion and Management 198: 111780.

8.Wu, J., Feng, Y., et al. 2023, Dense flux observations reveal the incapability of evapotranspiration products to capture the heterogeneity of evapotranspiration. Journal of Hydrology 622: 129743.

9.Wu, J., Feng, Y., et al.2022, Assessing evapotranspiration observed from ECOSTRESS using flux measurements in agroecosystems. Agricultural Water Management 269:107706.

10.Feng, Y., et al. 2018, National-scale assessment of pan evaporation models across different climatic zones of China. Journal of Hydrology 564: 314-328.