Dr. Jiachen Lu completed his PhD study at UNSW Sydney focusing on urban canopy parameterization over complex neighborhoods. He completed his Master’s degree at the University of California San Diego with a focus on planetary boundary layer parameterization for the stratocumulus to cumulus transition process. He has interests in land surface modelling, computational fluid dynamics, and urban climatology. His work now focuses on better urban representation in the Community Atmosphere Biosphere Land Exchange model (CABLE).