(in alphabetical order of surname) (more to be added)

[Guy Brasseur]

Prof. Guy Brasseur is an Earth system scientist who focuses on issues related to atmospheric chemistry, solar-terrestrial relations, biogeochemical cycles, atmospheric ozone and climate change. He is a member of the Academia Europaea and ISC Fellow. Since 1988, he held several positions: Director of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division (1990-1999) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (1999-2006), Associate Director of NCAR and Head of the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (2006-2009); Director of the German Climate Service Center (2009-2014); Chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP) (2002-2005); Chair of the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) (2015-2008). He is also a founder and co-chair of the international MAP-AQ (Monitoring, Analysis, and Prediction of Air Quality) project affiliated with the WMO and IGAC.

[Wenju Cai]

Dr Cai's research spans ocean-atmosphere interaction, physical oceanography, and large-scale climate dynamics.  His research has provided us with a deeper insight into how tropical climate variability responds to greenhouse warming. He has been a Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher since 2019. His research has led to a number of breakthroughs in fundamental understanding of the tropical ocean and atmospheric processes key to response of climate variability to global warming. He was elected Fellow of Australia Academy of Science (2020), Fellow of American Geophysical Union (2022), Fellow of American Meteorological Society (AMS) (2022), and was awarded AMS Sverdrup Gold Medal (2024).

[Sergey k. Gulev]

Prof. Sergey K. Gulev is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and holds a Doctor of Science degree in Physics and Mathematics. He is the head of the Sea-Air Interaction and Climate Laboratory (SAIL) at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Gulev has made significant contributions to the fields of sea-air interaction, marine meteorology, and climate dynamics. To date, he has published over 400 papers in journals such as Nature, Nature Geoscience, and BAMS. He played a key role in designing and organizing unique experiments such as NEWFAEX-88 and ATLANTEX-90. He was the first to develop a wind-wave climatology for the North Atlantic using observational data, laying the foundation for estimating wind-wave interaction momentum fluxes. Under his leadership, his research team developed a century-scale global ocean wind-wave climatology, which has become widely used in ocean climate studies. Additionally, he led the creation of the most comprehensive climatology of cyclone activity to date and developed numerical methods for cyclone identification, which have been widely used.

[Rachel White]

Dr. Rachel White is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her work focuses on large-scale climate dynamics and their impacts on extreme weather events, including the simulation of atmospheric dynamics and climate extremes in climate models. Her research includes studies on the June 2021 heatwave in the Pacific Northwest of North America, one of the most extreme heat events on record, research on whether we can use the connections between large-scale atmospheric dynamics and extreme weather events to improve sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) forecasts of extremes, through to more theoretical questions, such as work to understand the role of topography and sea surface temperature asymmetries on the atmospheric circulation patterns that can lead to temperature extremes. Rachel serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, is a lead author for two chapters for the latest Canada’s Changing Climate Report (2025), and a lead author for a chapter on Stationary Waves in Climate models in new Elsevier Encylopedia of Climate System Science.

[Saini Yang]

Dr. YANG Saini is a professor at Beijing Normal University. She is the executive director of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR). Her research interests include integrated risk assessment, climate change adaptation, resilient infrastructure and emergency management. She is the PI of more than forty research projects and has published more than 100 papers in academic journals, including Nature Climate Change and Nature Communications. She is a member of the expert committee of the National Disaster Reduction Commission and a member of the Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Advisory Group of the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction. She also serves as the editorial board member of several international academic journals.

[Fangqun Yu]

Prof. Fangqun Yu is a tenured faculty member and research professor of the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Recognized recently with the 2024 SUNY-Albany President's Excellence in Research and Creative Activities Award, he is an internationally renowned scientist on the formation of particles and contrails in aircraft plumes, theories of new particle formation in the atmosphere, and size-resolved particle microphysics. He develops and applies a size-resolved advanced particle microphysics (APM) model across plume, local, and global scales. He is also working on connecting the contrail cirrus study to cirrus cloud thinning (CCT), another proposed approach of SRM. With over 180 peer-reviewed publications and a Google Scholar h-index of 56, his work spans fundamental particle microphysics, aerosol-cloud-climate interactions, contrail formation and climate implications, health effects of ultrafine particles, machine learning applications in global aerosol modeling, and climate intervention.