CV
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher
Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, UIB-CSIC), jointly affiliated with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB), Spain
05/2025 – present
Research Associate
University of Western Australia (UWA), Australia
01/2022 – 01/2025
Guest Postdoctoral Researcher
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Germany
01/2021 – 12/2021
Postdoctoral Researcher
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Germany
07/2020 – 12/2020
Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Universität Rostock, Germany
01/2017 – 11/2020
Thesis: Frontal instability and energy dissipation in submesoscale fronts
Supervisor: PD Dr. Lars Umlauf (Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans)
Research Assistant
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (ROC)
03/2016 – 12/2016
Research Assistant
National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan (ROC)
10/2014 – 02/2015
M.Sc.
National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan (ROC)
09/2013 – 10/2014
Thesis: A study on coastal sea surface temperature drop after typhoon passage Supervisor: Prof. Dong-Jiing Doong (now at National Cheng Kung University)
B.Sc.
National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan (ROC)
09/2009 – 07/2013
Award
2022: UWA Research Collaboration Award
2022: UA-DAAD Australia-Germany Joint Research Award
2021: American Geophysical Union (AGU) Outstanding Reviewer Award, for Geophysical Research Letters, nominated by Prof. Caitlin Whalen from University of Washington
2020: Ph.D. thesis awarded magna cum laude (with Great Distinction) by Universität Rostock
2014: DAAD Summer Institute Student Internship Program Award
2013: Taiwanese Exchange Student Scholarship Award
Invited Presentations
03/2025: Frontiers in Surface Mixed Layer Dynamics and Turbulence, Seminar, Institute of Hydrological and Oceanic Sciences, National Central University, Taiwan (ROC)
12/2024: Submesoscale Fronts and Diurnal Warm Layers, The 2nd Annual Conference of Marine System, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China
11/2024: Submesoscale Fronts and Diurnal Warm Layers, College Seminar, College of Marine Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan (ROC)
05/2024: Symmetric Instability and Turbulence under Theoretically Unfavorable Conditions, The 21st Pacific-Asian Marginal Seas (PAMS) Meeting, Zhuhai, China
02/2023: Diurnal Variability of Frontal Dynamics, Instability, and Energy Dissipation, Eddy-Wave Meeting, University of Hamburg, Germany
04/2022: Submesoscale Dynamics and Turbulence under Theoretically-Unfavorable Conditions for Symmetric Instability, Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics Colloquium (GEOMAR), Germany, online
04/2022: Submesoscale Dynamics and Turbulence under Theoretically-Unfavorable, Conditions for Symmetric InstabilityMixing Seminar, University of Southampton, UK
Teaching
Physical Oceanography (Master level) – Guest Lecturer
Ocean Graduate School, University of Western Australia, Australia
10/2022
Marine Turbulence (Master level)- Teaching Assistant
Physics department, Universität Rostock, Germany
04-09/2019
Hydrodynamics (Bachelor level) - Teaching Assistant
Physics department, Universität Rostock, Germany
10/2018–03/2019
MATLAB (Bachelor level) - Teaching Assistant
Department of Marine Environmental Informatics, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan (ROC)
02/2013–07/2013
Research Cruises
(98 days in total)
06/2024: R/V Solander, Australian Northwest Shelf, University of Western Australia, 7 days, co-PI
04-05/2023: R/V Solander, Australian Northwest Shelf, University of Western Australia, 28 days, co-PI
09/2019: R/V Alice, Bornö Fjord, University of Copenhagen, 7 days
02/2019: R/V Electra, Northern Baltic Sea, Stockholm University, 14 days
11-12/2018: R/V EMB, Central Baltic Sea, German Research Foundation (DFG), 21 days
10-11/2017: R/V EMB, Central Baltic Sea, German Research Foundation (DFG), 21 days
Instruments used: Microstructure Turbulence Profilers, ship-board and moored ADCPs, drifter, autonomous gliders and wirewalkers, as well as standard oceanographic instruments.
Methods: Tow-yo profiling mode with turbulence profilers to measure submesoscale fronts