Lan Cuo

Dr. Lan Cuo served as a professor at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITPR), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and as an adjunct professor at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010-2025. She has since been reappointed as a professor at ITPR. She received her Master of Science degree in 1996 from the Nanjing Institute of Meteorology and earned her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Washington, Seattle, from 2005 to 2009, and joined ITPR in 2010.

Professor Lan Cuo was awarded the Excellent Young Scientist Award by the Chinese Tibetan Plateau Research Association in 2015. In 2019, the graduate course she co-taught was recognized as an Excellent Graduate Student Class by the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She serves as a senior editorial board member of Scientific Reports of Springer Nature and received the Springer Nature Editorial Contribution Award in 2025.

Since joining ITPR, her research has focused on surface hydrology and climatology of the Tibetan Plateau. She has secured over ¥4 million in research funding as a principal investigator and has served as a task leader on multiple projects with a total value exceeding ¥7 million. She has supervised 13 PhD and master’s students, including three international students from Nepal, Tajikistan, and Nigeria. Professor Lan Cuo has published 63 peer-reviewed papers, which have received more than 5,400 citations according to Google Scholar (as of 2025).