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Geography BA

• Majoring in physical geography, taking modules including climatology, glaciology, atmospheric science, volcanology, and biogeography
• First Class with Distinction (78%), ranked top of the cohort (1/92)
• Cambridge University Geographical Society Committee Member
• Trinity Hall Geographical Society Co-President
• Trinity Hall Rambling Society Founder and President

Gaokao and A Level

• Self-taught A Level A*A*A*A*A
• IELTS 8.5 (C2 level)
• 15th International Earth Science Olympiad Chinese Team Member

Research Assistant

• Project Title: Analysing Earth System Model Simulations to Investigate Climate Feedbacks During the Last Deglaciation
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National Capabilities for Global Challenges (NC-International) Program Intern

• Project Title: Towards a Unified Approach to Environmental Modelling
• Developing a Basic Model Interface to allow models written in different programming languages and built for different Earth system processes to communicate and be coupled together
• Modernizing the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) model by rewriting it with optimized algorithms and Machine Learning framwork
• Technical skills: Fortran, CMake, CLI programming, SciPy, JAX, Equinox, process-based model development

International Earth Science Olympiad Committee Volunteer Officer

Joint-UK Land Surface Simulator Python Implementation

• A Python implementation of the Joint-UK Land Surface Simulator that I developed during my internship at UKCEH.

Fiona's Climate Models

• A collection of simple, conceptual climate models built by myself.

Modelling Glacier Flow and Mass Balance

• A first-class coursework (92%) in which I developed and calibrated a process-based model of Haut Glacier d’Arolla, and applied it to explore the glacier's climate sensitivity and potential future behaviour.

Developing A Tree Ring Chronology

• A first-class coursework (98%) in which I built and analysed a tree ring width chronology using Scots Pine samples from Pinar Grande, Spain.

Orbital Control over the Past 1.5 Ma

• A conference publication that explores the influence of seasonal and latitudinal insolation distribution on climate variability over the past 1.5 Ma.

Global Volcanic Hazards - A Quantitative View

• A first class coursework (92%) which applies spatial and statistical quantitative approaches to assess global distribution and impacts of volcanic hazards.

Breckland's Periglacial Patterned Ground

• A first class research proposal (83%) which aims to investigate the periglacial patterned ground in Breckland, East Anglia, UK using unmanned aerial vehicles, ground-penentrating radar, and sediment study methods.

CUSF High Altitude Balloon Project

• Source code for Cambridge University Spaceflight Society High Altitude Balloon project

• Philip Lake Prize (best performance in PartIB Tripos), Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

• Excellent Earth Science Tutor awarded by Chinese Earth Science Olympiad Committee

• Awardee of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Full Scholarship (offer declined)

• International Earth Science Olympiad Chinese Team Member (national top 8 among 40000 candidates)
• International Gold Medalist in Field Investigation (top 5), Silver Medalist in Theoretical Test

• International Linguistics Olympiad China National Silver Medalist