Chunjing Qiu
Climate scientist
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE)
Biografi
Chunjing Qiu is a climate scientist specialising in how peatlands store and release carbon under a changing climate. Her research combines field observations and advanced computer models to understand the water, energy and carbon exchanges in these vast northern ecosystems. She has contributed to the development of the land-surface model ORCHIDEE-PEAT, which simulates the role of mosses, shrubs and trees in controlling greenhouse-gas fluxes. By refining how vegetation and hydrology are represented, her work helps reveal when peatlands act as carbon sinks – and when they begin to emit CO₂ and methane. Through this, Qiu and her collaborators provide crucial insights into how climate warming, drainage and permafrost thaw may transform these long-term carbon stores, and how that feedback could shape the planet’s future climate balance.
