ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1741-589X/
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=corgxjoAAAAJ&hl=en
Education
Sep. 2008 – Jun. 2013 Bachelor’s Degree in Physics, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Sep. 2013 – Dec. 2017 Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA
Work Experience
Nov. 2024 – Present Assistant Professor, Shenzhen University, China
Jan. 2021 – Jun. 2024 Postdoctoral Researcher, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Feb. 2018 – Dec. 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sep. 2013 – Dec. 2017 Research Assistant, Texas A&M University, USA
Research Interests
Scattering by small particles
Microphysics and optical properties of ice crystals
Radiative transfer
Atmospheric remote sensing
Research Projects
Numerical Simulations of Light Scattering by Small Particles (2013–2017) Ph.D. research project.
Study of Earth’s Albedo (2018–2020) Project funded by the Academy of Finland; main contributor.
Measurement and Analysis of Ice Cloud Optical Properties (2021–2024) Research project under the Helmholtz Association in Germany; key participant.
Representative Award
Peter C Waterman Award (2024)
A Young Scientist Award jointly presented by Elsevier and theJournal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer, awarded annually to one young scientist for outstanding contributions in the field of electromagnetic scattering theory and its applications.
Reviewer for the Following Journals
Optics Express
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer
Journal of the Optical Society of America A
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Selected Publications
1.Wagner, S. W., Schnaiter, M.,Xu, G., Nehlert, F., & Järvinen, E. (2024).Light scattering and microphysical properties of atmospheric bullet rosette ice crystals.EGUsphere, 2024, 1–27.
2.Xu, G., Waitz, F., Wagner, S., Nehlert, F., Schnaiter, M., & Järvinen, E. (2023).Toward better constrained scattering models for natural ice crystals in the visible region.Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128(2), e2022JD037604.
3.Xu, G., Waitz, F., Wagner, S., Nehlert, F., Schnaiter, M., & Järvinen, E. (2024, January).Ice crystal morphological complexity and asymmetry parameter: Implications for light scattering measurements. InAIP Conference Proceedings(Vol. 2988, No. 1). AIP Publishing.
4.Xu, G., Schnaiter, M., & Järvinen, E. (2022).Accurate retrieval of asymmetry parameter for large and complex ice crystals from in‐situ polar nephelometer measurements.Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(3), e2021JD036071.
5.Xu, G., Sun, B., Brooks, S.D., Yang, P., Kattawar, G.W., & Zhang, X. (2017). Modeling the inherent optical properties of aquatic particles using an irregular hexahedral ensemble.Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 191, 30–39.
6.Zenker, J., Collier, K.N.,Xu, G., Yang, P., Levin, E.J., Suski, K.J., DeMott, P.J., & Brooks, S.D. (2017). Using depolarization to quantify ice nucleating particle concentrations: a new method.Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10(12), 4639–4657.
7.Xu, G., Stegmann, P.G., Brooks, S.D., & Yang, P. (2017). Modeling the single and multiple scattering properties of soot-laden mineral dust aerosols.Optics Express, 25(24), A990–A1008.
8.Penttilä, A., Muinonen, K., Ihalainen, O., Uvarova, E., Vuori, M.,Xu, G., Näränen, J., Wilkman, O., Peltoniemi, J., Gritsevich, M., & Järvinen, H. (2022). Temporal Variation of the Shortwave Spherical Albedo of the Earth.Frontiers in Remote Sensing, 3, 790723.
9.Xu, G.(2020). Improved recursive computation of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients.Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 254, 107210.
10.Järvinen, E., Nehlert, F.,Xu, G., Waitz, F., Mioche, G., Dupuy, R., Jourdan, O., & Schnaiter, M. (2023).Investigating the vertical extent and short-wave radiative effects of the ice phase in Arctic summertime low-level clouds.Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23(13), 7611–7633.
11.Järvinen, E., van Diedenhoven, B., Magee, N., Neshyba, S., Schnaiter, M.,Xu, G., Jourdan, O., Delene, D., Waitz, F., Lolli, S., & Kato, S. (2023).Ice Crystal Complexity and Link to the Cirrus Cloud Radiative Effect. InClouds and Their Climatic Impacts: Radiation, Circulation, and Precipitation(pp. 47–85).
12.Xu, G.& Muinonen, K. (2020). Radiation fields in radiative transfer: Spherical-wavelet representation.Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 243, 106821.
13.Xu, G., Gritsevich, M., Peltoniemi, J., Penttilä, A., Wilkman, O., Ihalainen, O., & Muinonen, K. (2019). Spectral Reflectance Processing via Local Wavelength-Direction Correlations.IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 17(6), 948–952.
