Dr. Xudong Wu is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. He is associated with the Oxford Programme for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (OPSIS), working on the resilience of infrastructure and macroeconomic networks to climate hazards. He is also interested in modeling high-resolution global land-use and land-cover change and integrating these datasets with large-scale agricultural models such as Lund-Potsdam-Jena managed Land (LPJmL).
Before joining the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford, Xudong worked as a Humboldt Fellow at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), where he used complexity modelling tools to investigate the propagation of disaster-induced losses across global supply chains, and as a senior scientist at Beijing Forestry University, where he led a group to develop fine-scale global land-use datasets and to assess the spatially explicit environmental footprint of shifting consumption patterns. Xudong holds a PhD in Fluid Mechanics from Peking University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Energy Engineering with a minor in Literature from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.