The Measurement of Atmospheric Black Carbon: A Review

Yuan Cheng is the winner of the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists, and a professor and PhD supervisor at Harbin Institute of Technology. He is mainly engaged in field observations of atmospheric pollution, especially particulate matter, focusing on biomass combustion, light-absorbing carbonaceous components (brown carbon and black carbon), and secondary aerosols. He has published nearly 40 SCI papers as the sole first or corresponding author, including ESI highly cited papers, ES&T Letters' front cover paper, and the FESE annual outstanding paper. He has presided over more than 10 different types of scientific research projects, including programs sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Heilongjiang Provincial Talent Plans (the “Touyan” Project, the Fund for Excellent Young Scientists, and the Fund for Excellent Overseas Returnees), and the Program for Distinguished Talents in Fundamental Research at the Harbin Institute of Technology, etc. He has won the Nomination Award for National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation and the Young Scientist Award of the Chinese Society of Environmental Sciences.

Jiumeng Liu is an Associate Professor at the School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the characteristics, sources, and climate impacts of atmospheric aerosols. Dr. Liu received her PhD degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and has been awarded the John Bradshaw Award. She has worked on a variety of research projects funded by NSFC, NASA, NOAA, etc. and has accumulated rich experiences in ground-based observations, aircraft-based measurements, and chamber experiments. She has published more than 60 SCI-indexed papers in internationally renowned journals such as Nature Geoscience and PNAS, with a total SCI citation of more than 2700 and an H-factor of 30, according to data shown in Scopus.