CV

Employment

• 2026-present Assistant Professor, Xiamen University
• 2023–2026 Postdoctoral Researcher, Southern University of Science and Technology

Education

• 2019–2022 Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, Monash University (Australia)
• 2014–2018 M.Sc. in Physical Oceanography, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2010–2014 B.Sc. in Atmospheric Science, Yunnan University

Projects

• NSFC Young Scientists Fund: Thermal slope effects of LGM ice sheets and impacts on surrounding circulation, PI, ongoing
• China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: Spatiotemporal evolution of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets in late Quaternary deglaciations, PI, completed

Honors & Awards

• First cohort of MoE overseas postdoctoral talent program
• Guangdong overseas postdoctoral talent
• Committee member, SIAM Climate & Environment Subcommittee (China)

Selected Publications

• Xie, Z., Chen, D., & Li, P. (2024). Discovering Climate Change during the Early 21st Century via Wasserstein Stability Analysis. Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, 42(2), 373–381. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-024-3324-6
• Xie, Z., Dong, L., & Liu, K. (2023). Mechanisms Associated With Tropospheric Dry Static Stability Change During the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(19), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038900
• Xie, Z., Dommenget, D., McCormack, F. S., & Mackintosh, A. N. (2022). GREB-ISM v1.0: A coupled ice sheet model for the Globally Resolved Energy Balance model for global simulations on timescales of 100\,kyr. Geoscientific Model Development, 15(9), 3691–3719. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3691-2022
• Xie, Z., Duan, A., & Tian, Q. (2017). Weighted composite analysis and its application: an example using ENSO and geopotential height. Atmospheric Science Letters, 18(11), 435–440. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.786