Weijie Zhang
Weijie Zhang specializes in ecohydrology, modeling ecosystem water-carbon coupling and estimating ecosystem water flux based on eddy covariance datasets.
Bio
After a three-year master study in the topic of tree ring and climate at Nanjing University in China, I moved to the exciting field of ecohydrology and focusing on understanding ecosystem water carbon coupling and estimating evaporation (or evapotranspiration) as well as its components at MPI-BGC. Being a early career refresher, I have a wide of interests in the terrestrial-atmosphere interactions and ecohydrology related topics and an increasing curiosity in quantifying and understanding the different components in evaporation, or evapotranspiration. After a comprehensive diagnose of the uncertainties in eddy covariance water flux measurements over most sites in FLUXNET2015, I am trying to quantify the evapotranspiration components and their fractions from the global perspective using a machine learning upscaling approach. I luckily become a part of Diego Miralles’ research team in Ghent to learn more about the potential of widely applied process models and the promising hybrid models in terms of the global hydrology.
Trajectory
- 2020–present: PhD candidate | Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry and Ghent University
- 2017–2020: Msc. In Physical Geography | Nanjing University
- 2013–2017: Bsc. In Physical Geography and Resource Environment | Xinjiang University