Jiwen FanCASE Senior Scientist Affiliate

Email:

fanj@anl.gov

Biography

Dr. Jiwen Fan is the Deputy Director of the Environmental Science Division and Argonne Distinguished Fellow. She also holds a joint appointment as a senior research scientist at the University of Chicago. Before joining Argonne National Laboratory in June 2023, she was a Laboratory Fellow and an Earth Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Dr. Fan’s role includes strategic planning, program and partnership development, and staff’s professional growth as the Deputy Director. 

Dr. Fan’s research spans a  range of areas addressing critical challenges in clouds, aerosols, aerosol-cloud interactions, human- earth system interactions,  convective storms and extreme weather. She developed and utilized model capabilities across scales from large-eddy, regional cloud-resolving models, and global earth system models, and integrated with field and lab observations. 

She currently leads efforts to advance cloud microphysics development for DOE’s flagship Energy and Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), use machine learning (ML) to emulate cloud and aerosol physics for earth system models, and study impacts of urbanization, wildfires, aerosols, and air-sea interactions on weather extremes. She co-leads the AI for Climate (AICE) Initiative at the University of Chicago and the DOE’s Energy Earthshot Research Center - Addressing Challenges in Energy: Floating Wind in a Changing Climate (ACE-FWICC).  

Education

• Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, 2007
• M.S., Environmental Engineering, University of Central Florida, 2002
• M.S., Environmental Science, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing Campus), 1999
• B.S.,Chemistry, Hunan University of Science & Technology, Hunan, China, 1996

Awards and Honors (selected)

• Argonne Distinguished Fellow, 2025
• Fellow, American Meteorological Society (AMS), 2022
• Laboratory Fellow, PNNL, 2021
• American Meteorological Society (AMS) Scientific and Technological Activities Commission (STAC) Outstanding Service Award, 2018.
• Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research award, 2017
• Outstanding Service as Chair of Atmospheric Chemistry Committee in AMS, 2012-2017
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) ASCENT award, 2015
• Ronald L. Brodzinski Award for Early Career Exceptional Achievement, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2014.
• Ethel Ashworth-Tsutsui Memorial Award for Research, Texas A&M University, 2006.
• NASA Earth System Science (ESS) Fellowship, 2004-2007.

Publications

Dr. Fan has published over 130 peer-reviewed publications, with original research published in Science, PNAS, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, Science Advances, etc.  Many of her studies have been high-cited and widely featured by various national and international news outlets such as NPR, National Geographic, NBC, BBC, German NPR, and Cosmos.