Dien Wu – Assistant Professor

Email: Dien.Wu@colostate.edu
Research and teaching website

Education

• Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences – 2020 – University of Utah – Salt Lake City, Utah
• M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences – 2016 – University of Utah – Salt Lake City, Utah
• B.S. in Meteorology – 2014 – Florida State University – Tallahassee, US
• B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences – 2014 – Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology – Nanjing, China

Research Interests

• Biogeochemical cycle
• Atmospheric and inverse modeling
• Remote sensing
• Land-atmosphere interaction

Research Sponsors

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Awards, Honors, and Positions

• NASA Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) Science Team Member, 2025 – present
• NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2/3) Science Team Member, 2016 – present
• Staff Scientist, California Institute of Technology, 2023-2024
• Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate, California Institute of Technology, 2020-2023
• Edward J. Zipser Award, Excellence in Graduate Research, University of Utah, May 2020