Zhanqing Liis a distinguished university professor (DUP)at the Universityof Maryland College Park (UMCP). He received his Ph.D. degree from McGillUniversity, Canada, in 1991.After pursing one-year postdoctoral research at the Meteorological Service of Canada, he became a research scientist (II-IV) at the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing. In 2001, he moved to UMCP to become a full professor at the age of 37 (then the youngest in his field in the US), and aDUP in 2022. His research interestsinclude remote sensing, atmospheric physics and chemistry, climateand environment focusing on aerosol, cloud, radiation budget, precipitation, air quality (AQ), biomass burning.At present, his main research themes are climate, aerosol-cloud-interactions, air pollution (AP) and public health, planetary-boundary-layer (PBL), and PBL-AQ-Cloud interactions. He hasauthored 430peer-reviewed papers including Nature, Nature-Geosci., Nature-Comm., Science, PNAS, Lancet-PH,etc. They have been cited ~34000 with a h-index of 96 by the Google Scholar. He has been ranked among the top 0.1% most highly cited researchers since 2020. Dr. Li is a fellow of the US American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Geophysical Union (AGU), American Meteorological Society (AMS). He has received a dozen of awardsincluding the AGU’s Y. Kaufman Award, the Head of Public Service Award of Canada, the Humboldt Research Award of Germany. He has served as an Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere (2013-2020)and the Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics(since 2020). He has served on numerous committees such as the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the US National Academies,Atmospheric Observation Panel for Climate of the WMO, the AGU/AS Yoram Kaufman Award Committee, the AMS Atmospheric Chemistry Committee and Satellite Meteorological Committee, and the Award Committee of the University of Maryland Distinguished Professors. Many of his scientific findings have been widely reported in world’s leading media including New York Times, Discovery Channel, CBS News, Globe and Mail, with over 0.1 billion hits, and appeared on the cover of Science as a representative figure of foreign-borne scientists working in the United States in 2004.

Title of Talk : Air Pollution and Climate Changes, Intertwined relationships dictating our Living Environment