◆ 2026

• [Award] Mar. 2026: Dr. Zhu's collaborative research "Microscopic characterization and physical parameterization improvements of atmospheric aerosol mixing state and its application in climate models" was nominated for the "Top 10 Chinese Meteorological Science and Technology Advances of 2025".
• [Publication] Feb. 2026: Paper "Assessment of the Impact of Heat Waves and Vegetation Emissions on Ozone Pollution in the Yangtze River Delta" published in Chinese Journal of Environmental Science (corresponding author).
• [Conference] Jan. 24-30, 2026: Dr. Zhu attended AMS 2026 Annual Meeting in Houston, USA, and gave an oral presentation on "Quantifying Hourly Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Acute Health Risks with Cascade Machine Learning".

◆ 2025

• [Conference] Dec. 15-19, 2025: Dr. Zhu attended AGU25 in New Orleans, USA, and gave two oral presentations on global supply chain heat risk and ozone pollution in the Yangtze River Delta.
• [Conference] Dec. 12, 2025: Invited talk at Zhejiang Meteorological Society 2025 Annual Meeting in Taizhou on "Challenges of Extreme Events on Public Health".
• [Publication] Nov. 2025: Paper on PM2.5 and invasive pulmonary aspergillosis published in EBioMedicine (co-first author & corresponding author).
• [Conference] Nov. 13-15, 2025: Invited talk at International Conference on Atmospheric Environment, Extreme Weather, and Health (ICAEH) at Hong Kong Baptist University.
• [Conference] Nov. 10-11, 2025: Invited talk at the 8th Joint Annual Meeting on Environment and Health in Chongqing.
• [COP30] The latest international science-policy report "Ten New Insights in Climate Science (2025/2026)" will be officially released at COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Dr. Zhu contributed as a main author.
• [Conference] Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2025: Dr. Zhu gave keynote and invited talks at the 15th National Aerosol Conference in Hangzhou.
• [Conference] Oct. 23-25, 2025: Invited talk at the 36th Chinese Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Nanjing.
• [International] Aug. 23-31, 2025: Dr. Zhu led an undergraduate team to the University of Manchester, UK for academic exchange.
• [Conference] Aug. 13-16, 2025: Dr. Zhu convened a session at the Chinese Environmental Science Youth Academic Conference in Changsha and was appointed Youth Editorial Board member of Chinese Journal of Environmental Science.
• [Conference] Jul. 27-Aug. 1, 2025: Dr. Zhu and group members attended AOGS 2025 in Singapore, convened session AS17 on extreme weather.
• [Academic Visit] Jun. 16-30, 2025: Academic visits to Caltech, USC, UCLA, and UC Irvine in California, USA.
• [Conference] May 9-12, 2025: Convened session 14.8 at the 10th Youth Geoscience Forum in Hefei.
• [Conference] Apr. 28-May 2, 2025: Oral presentation at EGU 2025 in Vienna, Austria on "Health and Economic Costs of Future Extreme Heat Risk".
• [Academic] Mar. 28, 2025: Appointed Standing Committee Member of the Climate and Health Specialty Committee.
• [Academic] Jan. 19, 2025: Elected as Youth Council Member of the Chinese Society of Particuology (4th term).
• [Academic Visit] Jan. 29-Feb. 7, 2025: Academic exchange at the University of Central Florida on high-density atmospheric pollution monitoring.

◆ 2024

• [Academic Visit] Dec. 20, 2024: Visited the Chinese Academy of Sciences Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science and gave a talk on "Atmospheric Environment Modeling and Climate Change Risk Assessment".
• [Conference] Dec. 6-8, 2024: Invited talk at the Environment and Health Summit Forum in Hefei.
• [Conference] Nov. 28-29, 2024: Invited talk at the 5th Medical Meteorology Academic Seminar in Shanghai.
• [Academic Visit] Nov. 6, 2024: Visited the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, giving a talk on regional atmospheric chemistry transport model development.
• [Conference] Oct. 22-25, 2024: Invited talk at 2024 KOSA International Conference in Jeju, Korea.
• [Conference] Sep. 20-23, 2024: Invited talks at 2024 ABaCAS International Conference in Shanghai.
• [Conference] Jul. 18-19, 2024: Convened session 6.2 at the 2nd Chinese Environmental Science Youth Forum in Yinchuan.
• [Conference] Jun. 23-28, 2024: Invited talks at AOGS 2024 in Pyeongchang, Korea. Successfully organized session AS01.
• [Conference] Jun. 14, 2024: Invited talk at Zhejiang Marine Young Scientists Conference in Hangzhou.
• [Publication] Jun. 1, 2024: First-author paper on wildfire PAH emissions published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.
• [Conference] May 29-30, 2024: Invited talk at 7RAQM International Conference in Guangzhou.
• [Conference] May 25-28, 2024: Talk at Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences 2024 Annual Meeting in Wuhan.
• [Conference] May 17-21, 2024: Invited talk at the 9th Youth Geoscience Forum in Xiamen.
• [Conference] Apr. 23-27, 2024: Talk at the 6th Atmospheric Ozone Pollution Prevention Seminar in Qingdao.
• [Publication] Mar. 13, 2024: Co-first author paper published in Nature on global economic impacts of future extreme heat waves.

◆ 2023

• 2023-05-21 Our research paper "Unexpected deterioration of O3 pollution in the South Coast Air Basin of California: The role of meteorology and emissions" published in Environmental Pollution !
• 2023-04-12 Our Research Topic: Synergistic Effects of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Health launched online: Welcome for submission
• 2023-03-21 Our research paper "Supply chains create global benefits from improved vaccine accessibility" published in Nature Communications !

◆ 2022

• 2022-12-19 Our Editoral for Research Topic: Air Pollution and Climate Change: Interactions and Co-mitigation is published on line
• 2022-11-13 Invited to THE's 2023 Global Academic Reputation Survey
• 2022-11-03 Our Research Topic: Air Pollution and Climate Change: Interactions and Co-mitigation - Volume II launched online: Welcome for submission
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• 2022-10-11 HORIBA Commemorates Official Grand Opening of the HORIBA Institute for Mobility and Connectivity2 (HIMaC2) at the University of California, Irvine
• 2022-10-11 UCI study shows how climate mitigation options would affect health of various communities
• 2022-09-11 Our research paper "Decarbonization will lead to more equitable air quality in California" published in Nature Communications !