Yuanjian Yang is currently working in the Department of Atmospheric Detection, School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. He is mainly engaged in satellite remote sensing, and numerical simulation and its application in weather, climate and environmental changes. He graduated with a master's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2009, and worked at the Anhui Institute of Meteorological Science until 2017. During this period, he studied for a doctoral degree at the University of Science and Technology of China from 2012 to 2015; from February 2018 to January 2020, he studied at the Institute of Environment, Energy and Sustainable Development of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has hosted and participated in more than 10 projects including national key research and development plan projects, Sino–German international cooperation projects, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and China Meteorological Administration climate change projects. He has published or had accepted more than 100 academic papers (including more than 50 SCI papers) in multiple domestic and foreign journals.