• 2024-Present, Research Associate Professor, College of Meteorology and Oceanography, National University of Defense Technology
• 2023-2024, Research Associate, Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration
• 2019-2023, Postdoctoral Fellow, Guangzhou Institute of Tropical and Marine Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration

• 2014-2019, Peking University, PhD in Atmospheric Science
• 2010-2014, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, BSc in Physics

• Tropical Climate, Madden-Julian Oscillation, Intraseasonal Variability
• Climate Change, Inhomogeneity & Asymmetry
• Climate & Weather Extremes
• Weather Predictability & Chaoticity
• Analysis Tools, Data Science, Causal Inference

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• Core Member of Guangdong Province Introduction of Innovative R&D Team, 2023-2025
• Meteorological Technology Progress Award (2nd Prize), China Meteorological Society, 2018
• National Scholarship & Baosteel Scholarship & 1st Prize of Scholarship for Hong Kong, Macau & Taiwan students, Peking University, 2014-2019

• Liu, J.#, Leung, J. C. H.#, Zhao, D., Xu, D., Huang, H., Zang, Z., Tian, W., Ma, Y., Li, Y.*, & Zhang, B*. (2026). Warming Climate Has Lengthened Global Intense Tropical Cyclone Seasons. Nature Communications (Link)
• Zheng, Y.#, Leung, J. C. H.#, Li, S.*, Zhang, B.*. (2026). Anthropogenic climate change is causing stronger and more extreme Western Pacific Subtropical High. National Science Review. (Link)
• Gan, Q.#, Leung, J. C. H.#, Dong, W., Yang, Y., Zhao, D., Li, Y.*, Zhang, R., & Zhang, B.*. (2026). Beyond Global Mean Temperature: Increasing Asymmetry of Global Warming in Past and Future Climate Change. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science. (Link)
• Ye, G., Leung, J. C. H.*, Dong, W.*, Toumi, R., Xu, J., Li, W., Qian, W., Kong, H., & Zhang, B. (2026). A Reanalysis-Based Global Tropical Cyclone Tracks Dataset for the Twentieth Century (RGTracks-20C). Earth System Science Data. (Link)
• He, W., Yang, Y., Leung, J. C. H.*, Xiang, K., Wei, D., Cai, B., Kong, H., Tu, S., Zhang, B. (2025). Enhancing MJO convective activity in the twentieth century. Journal of Climate. (Link)
• Leung, J. C. H., Zhang, B., Gan, Q., Wang, L., Qian, W., & Hu, Z. Z. (2022). Differential expansion speeds of Indo-Pacific warm pool and deep convection favoring pool under greenhouse warming. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5(1), 97. (Link)

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My research group and I are supported by the following research grants:

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (China): On the long-term change in the seasonality of Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and its impacts on the seasonality of tropical intraseasonal oscillation (PI, Grant# 42405038, 2025–2027)
• Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (China): Long-term variability of MJO activity and its impacts on Northwest Pacific tropical cyclones in the past 100 years (PI, Grant# 2020A1515110275, 2020–2023)
• National Natural Science Foundation of China (China): Variability of Northern Hemispheric Polar and Arctic Cells and Their Impacts on Mid-High Latitude Climate Anomalies (Co-I, Grant# 41775067, 2018–2021)

• Associate Member, Institute of Physics
• Member, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society
• Member, China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Member, Chinese Meteorological Society
• Member, European Geosciences Union

• Email: chleung@pku.edu.cn
• ORCID: 0000-0002-4325-1083
• Web of Science: AAW-7595-2020
• Google Scholar: Jeremy Leung
• ResearchGate: Jeremy-Cheuk-Hin-Leung