2025.6 - Present Assistant Professor Department of Hydraulic Engineering,

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2020.9 – 2025.6 Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Hydraulic Engineering,

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Tropical Cyclone / Hurricane Hazards (Wind, Storm Surge, Rainfall)

Dynamics and Predictability of Extreme Weather and Climate Events

Risk Analysis and Coastal Resilience

As Principal Investigator:

Title: The mechanism of the energy index variability in typhoon life cycle and its impact on typhoon-induced disaster process (Young Scholars Program)

Sponsor: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Duration: 2022.01 – 2023.12

As Major participant:

Title: Description of air-sea interactions and its application to simulations of storm waves and surges (Key Program)

Sponsor: National Natural Science Foundation of China

Duration: 2018.01 – 2022.12

Role: proposal preparation, numerical study, and data analysis.

Fellow, Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society-Youth Scientific Committee

Fellow, Beijing Society for Hydroelectric Engineering-Youth Scientific Committee

2024, Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program, Chinese Association for Science and Technology

2024, Excellent Postdoctoral Fellow, Tsinghua University

2023, Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program, Beijing Association for Science and Technology

1. Shan, K., Lin, Y., Chu, P.-S., Yu, X.*, Song, F.* Seasonal advance of intense tropical cyclones in a warming climate. Nature, 2023, 623: 83-89. (This paper ranks in the top 1% of all tracked papers of a similar age and the top 10% of Nature papers).

2. Shan, K., Song, F., Lin, Y., Chu, P.-S., Wu, L., Yu, X.* 2026：Global warming drives an increase in pre-monsoon tropical cyclone activity over the North Indian Ocean. Nature Communications, 17: 2930.

3. Shan, K., Song, F.*, Lin, Y., Chu, W., He, C., Chu, P.-S., Wu, L., Yu, X.* 2025：How does globally accumulated tropical cyclone energy vary in response to a changing climate? Science Bulletin, 70(6): 943–950.

4. Hong, Z., Long, D.*, Shan, K.*, Zhang, J.-M., Woolway, R. I., Liu, M., Mann, M. E., Fang, H.* 2025: Declining ocean greenness and phytoplankton blooms in low to mid-latitudes under a warming climate. Science Advances, 11(42): adx4857.

5. Shan, K., Chu, W., Chu, P.-S., Yu, X.* 2025: Seesaw of tropical cyclone frequency between eastern and western regions of the western North Pacific. Journal of Climate, 38(8): 1871–1879.