Minghao Qiu, Ph.D.

Dr. Qiu is an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University, jointly appointed between the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the Program in Public Health. He uses observational data, statistical, and atmospheric modeling to study the impacts of air pollution and climate change on humans and society, and policies that could address these challenges. He is interested in understanding how climate change influences air quality and human health and evaluating policies that improve environmental quality and human health. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a Planetary Health postdoc fellow at Stanford University. 

Education:

Human and Planetary Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University (2021-2024)

Ph.D., Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (focus: environmental science and policy), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2021)

B.S. Environmental Science and Economics, Peking University (2016)

Academic Interests:

Climate change; air pollution; climate and energy policy; wildfires, climate and health

Honors, Awards, and Affiliations:

Young Professional Best Paper Award, US Association for Energy Economics 2023

Winner of Poster Competition, Meteorology and Climate - Modeling for Air Quality (MAC-MAQ) Conference 2023

Atmospheric Chemistry Colloquium for Emerging Senior Scientists (ACCESSS XVII) 2023

Planetary Health Fellowship, Stanford and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine 2022

Outstanding Student Presentation Awards (OSPA), American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2021

MIT Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability 2020

Young Scientists Summer Program at IIASA 2019

Professional Memberships:

• American Geophysical Union
• American Meteorological Society

Select Publications:

Qiu, M, Ratledge, N, Azevedo, I, Diffenbaugh, N, Burke, M. Drought impacts on the electricity system, emissions, and air quality in the western US. PNAS, 2023.

Qiu, M, Zigler, C, Selin, N. Impacts of wind power on air quality, premature mortality and exposure disparities in the US. Science Advances, 2022.

Qiu, M, Zigler, C, Selin, N. Statistical and machine learning methods for evaluating emissions reduction policies under changing meteorological conditions. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022.

Qiu, M, Borken-Kleefeld, J. Using snapshot measurements to identify high-emitting vehicles. Environmental Research Letters, 2022.

Qiu, M, Weng, Y, Cao, J, Selin, N, Karplus, V. Improving evaluation of energy policies with multiple goals: Comparing ex ante and ex post approaches. Environmental Science & Technology, 2020.

Picciano, P, Qiu, M, Eastham, S, Yuan, M, Reilly, J, Selin, N. Air Quality-Related Equity Implications of U.S. Decarbonization Policy. Nature Communications, 2023.

Burke, M, Childs, M, de la Cuesta, B, Qiu, M, Li, J, Gould, C, Heft-Neal, S, Wara, M. Wildfire influence on recent US pollution trends. Nature, 2023.

Schlüter, M, Brelsford, C, Ferraro, P, Orach, K, Qiu, M, Smith, M. Unraveling complex causal processes that affect sustainability requires more integration between empirical and modeling approaches. PNAS, 2023.

Zhe Sun, H, Qiu, M, et al. Antagonism between ambient ozone increasing and urbanisation- oriented population migration on Chinese cardiopulmonary mortality. The Innovation, 2023.

Childs, M, Li, J, Wen, J, Driscoll, A, Wang, S, Gould, C, Qiu, M, Burney, J, Burke, M. Daily local-level estimates of ambient wildfire smoke PM2.5 for the contiguous US. Environmental Science & Technology, 2022.

Yang, H, Tao, W, Liu, Y, Qiu, M, Liu, J, Jiang, K, Yi, K, Xiao, Y, Tao, S. The contribution of the Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei region’s iron and steel industry to local air pollution in winter. Environmental Pollution, 2018.

Wei, K, Qiu, M, Zhang, R, Zhou, L, Zhang, T, Yao, M, and Luo, C. Single Living yEast PM Toxicity Sensor (SLEPTor) System. Journal of Aerosol Science, 2017.