Pengfei Xue

Pengfei Xue is a Geophysical Scientist at the Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory, with a focus on numerical modeling for hydrodynamic, climate, and environmental challenges in the Great Lakes and coastal oceans. His work involves developing an integrated regional Earth system model (IRESM) that couples atmospheric, lake, ice, wave, sediment, land surface, and biological components.

Education

• Ph.D. in Oceanography, University of Massachusetts Intercampus Marine Science Program
• Postdoctoral Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Focus

Dr. Xue’s research emphasizes simulating and predicting regional Earth system responses to natural and anthropogenic disturbances, including climate variability, extreme events, coastal hazards, and biophysical processes. His approach integrates data assimilation and machine learning techniques within coupled ocean-atmosphere models, applied across diverse marine environments like the U.S. East Coast, Gulf of Maine, Changjiang Estuary, and the Maritime Continent.

Collaborations

He collaborates with interdisciplinary teams of scientists and experts to advance predictive understanding of coastal systems at broader scales through IRESMs.