Yan Xia is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the School of Systems Science at Beijing Normal University. He received his bachelor’s degree in 2008 and his Ph.D. in 2014, both from the School of Physics at Peking University. He is also a member of the Atmospheric Physics Committee of the Chinese Meteorological Society, a member of the Chinese Youth Working Group of the International Association for Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS), a Youth Editorial Board member of the Journal of Plateau Meteorology, a Youth Committee member of the Beijing Meteorological Society, and a reviewer for leading domestic and international journals, including Nature Climate Change, Science Bulletin, Geophysical Research Letters, and the Journal of Geophysical Research.