YZ
Research Associate, Lecturer
LFW A 7 Universitatstrasse 2 8092 Zurich Switzerland
I am Yu Zhou, a Research Associate from Prof. Nina Buchmann’s group and Lecturer in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich. My current research project is CERES: Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Extremes on the Resilience of European Forests.
I was previously a Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow from Prof. Yiqi Luo’s ECOLAB at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences(CALS), Cornell University.
I got my Ph.D. at Clark University in the Graduate School of Geography (2021), supervised by Prof. Christopher A. Williams, and an M.S. at the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth (CAS) in Cartography & GIS (2012), supervised by Prof. Li Zhang.
news
| Apr 01, 2026 | I attended a workshop to discuss the progress of WG3 of CLEANFOREST COST Action and visited the Hyytiälä SMEAR II LTER Site. |
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| Mar 01, 2026 | Wonder how trees in dryland use water during dry periods? Our new Biogeosciences paper shows that hydraulic redistribution declines as precipitation becomes larger and more frequent. |
| Jan 01, 2026 | At the Swiss Forest Lab Science Day in Bern, I gave a talk about our recent work on the drivers of gross primary productivity (GPP) changes in European ecosystems over the past two decades. |
