Xue Likun, Ph.D., Professor, Doctoral Supervisor. His research primarily focuses on atmospheric chemistry, with particular interests in the atmospheric processes and environmental effects of highly reactive gases, ocean–atmosphere chemical interactions, and the formation and mitigation of ozone pollution. As first or corresponding author, he has published 96 papers in journals such as Science Advances, Nature Communications, National Science Review, Science Bulletin, Environmental Science & Technology (ES&T), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), and Journal of Geophysical Research (JGR). His work has received over 13,000 citations with an H‑index of 63. He has received three provincial/ministerial level awards. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of ACS EST Air (a journal of the American Chemical Society), a member of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) China Working Group, and an editorial board member of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters. He has long been committed to frontline teaching and education, offering six undergraduate and graduate courses, leading six educational reform projects, and supervising over 50 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
1. Xue Likun, Zhu Yujiao, Gao Jian, Zhong Xuelian, Cui Can, Wang Shuai, Jiang Zhiwen, Sun Yue, Li Qinyi, Zhang Yuqiang, Li Hong, Zhang Yingnan, Wang Shanshan, Zhao Min, Shen Hengqing, Zhang Yujie, Tang Guigang, Wang Tao, Wang Wenxing, Critical transition of urban ozone formation regime in the North China Plain, National Science Review, 13(3), 2026.
2. Hengqing Shen#, Xuelian Zhong#, Yujiao Zhu, Yanqiu Nie, Min Zhao, Qinyi Li, Yuqiang Zhang, Liubin Huang, Zheng Zong, Qi Yuan, Tao Wang, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, Wenxing Wang, Likun Xue*, HONO Emission from Marine Algae, Science Advances, 12, eaeb8486, https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb8486, 2026.
3. Zheng Zong#, Men Xia#, Chunshui Lin#, Xiaorui Chen#, Likun Xue*, Qinyi Li, Yifan Jiang, Chongguo Tian, Xuehua Fan, Qi Yuan, Xinfeng Wang, Yujiao Zhu, Jisheng Zhang, Shuncheng Lee, Yujing Mu, Jun Li, Xiao Fu, Chuanhua Ren, Xin Huang, Chao Yan, Wei Nie, Alba Badia, Gan Zhang, Aijun Ding, Ru-Jin Huang*, Markku Kulmala, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, Tao Wang*, Wenxing Wang, Isotopic constraints on the origin of reactive chlorine in the troposphere, Science Advances, 12 (3), 2026.
4. Jiangshan Mu, Chenliang, Yuqiang Zhang*, Zhou Liu, Yingnan Zhang, Na Zhao, Bin Luo, Qionghui, Zhou, Qingzhu Zhang, Hongliang Zhang, Likun Xue*, Improved global daily nitrogen dioxide concentrations from 2005 to 2023 derived using a deep learning approach, Earth System Science Data, 18, 2999–3011, 2026.
5. Xuelian Zhong, Hengqing Shen*, Hongyong Li, Yuhong Liu, Yujiao Zhu, Liubin Huang, Juan Yang, Ji Zhang, Yanqiu Nie, Min Zhao, Yue Sun, Yu Yang, Can Cui, Jisheng Zhang, Xiaohuan Liu, Qi Yuan, Ying Jiang, Hong Li, Wenxing Wang, and Likun Xue*, Atmospheric nitrous acid in contrasting environments in North China, Environmental Science & Technology, doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6c01752, 2026.
6. Jiangshan Mu, Yuqiang Zhang*, Yingnan Zhang, Zhou Liu, Chenliang Tao, Bin Luo, Likun Xue*, Explainable Machine Learning for High-Resolution Modeling of Long-Term Atmospheric Nitrogen and Sulfur Wet Deposition across the United States, Environmental Science & Technology, 60, 11, 8661–8670, 2026.
7. Yang Yu#, Huang Liubin#, Zhao Min, Wu Yan, Xu Yihang, Li Qinyi, Wang Wenxing, Xue Likun*, Multiphase reactions of organic peroxides and nitrite as a source of atmospheric organic nitrates, Nature Communications, 16 (1), 2025.
8. Hengqing Shen#, Qinyi Li#, Fei Xu#, Likun Xue*, Yongxia Hu, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez*, Wenxing Wang, and Tao Wang*, Aerosol iodide accelerates reactive nitrogen cycling in the marine atmosphere, Nature Communications, 16 (1), 2025.
9. Min Zhao, Hengqing Shen*, Gen Zhang, Lin Li, Yujiao Zhu, He Meng, Bin Zhao,Yuhong Liu, Xuelian Zhong, Yating Gao, Yingzhe Guo, Yue Sun, Zhaoqi Gao, YuqiangZhang, Keyong Hou, Xiaohong Yao, Tao Wang, Wenxing Wang, and Likun Xue*, Underestimated formaldehyde emissions from residential coal combustion in China, Environmental Science & Technology, 59, 50, 27508–27516, 2025.
10. Wen Liang, Gao Jian*, Xue Likun*, Li Yang, Gao Rui, Tang Wei, Wang Jiaqi, Du Xiaohui, Zhang Yujie, Wang Xinfeng, Zhu Yujiao, Chai Fahe, Hu Jingnan, Tang Guigang, Chen Jianmin, Wang Tao, Ding Aijun, Herrmann Hartmut, Mellouki Abdelwahid, Dong Can, Li Haisheng, Guo Zhaoxin Zhao Yong, Long-term changes in summertime nitrate chemistry in the top boundary layer of North China, Environmental Science & Technology, 59 (25), 12822-12832, 2025.
11. Likun Xue, Ying Jiang, Hongyong Li, Qingqing Liu, Ji Zhang, Hengqing Shen, Yong Zhao, Zhaoxin Guo, Tianshu Chen, Liang Wen, Yuhong Liu, Jiangshan Mu, Yujiao Zhu, Xinfeng Wang, Jian Gao, Tao Wang, Wenxing Wang, Reactive oxidized nitrogen at a high mountain site in the North China Plain: Chemical speciation and temporal variations during 2007-2023, J. Geophys. Res. Atmosphere, 130, 7, 2025.
12. Hengqing Shen, Likun Xue*, Gen Zhang*, Yujiao Zhu, Min Zhao, Xuelian Zhong, Yanqiu Nie, Jinghao Tang, Yuhong Liu, Qi Yuan, Huiwang Gao, Tao Wang*, Wenxing Wang, Marine sources of formaldehyde in the coastal atmosphere. Science Bulletin, 70, (1), 96-103, 2025.
13. Min Zhao, Hengqing Shen*, Ji Zhang, Yuhong Liu, Yue Sun, Xinfeng Wang, Can Dong, Yujiao Zhu, Hongyong Li, Ye Shan, Jiangshan Mu, Xuelian Zhong, Jinghao Tang, Mingzhi Guo, Wenxing Wang, Likun Xue*, Carbonyl Compounds Regulate Atmospheric Oxidation Capacity and Particulate Sulfur Chemistry in the Coastal Atmosphere. Environmental Science & Technology, 58, (39), 17334-17343, 2024.
14. Tianshu Chen, Tao Wang*, Likun Xue*, Guy Brasseur, Heatwave exacerbates air pollution in China through intertwined climate-energy-environment interactions. Science Bulletin, 69, (17), 2765-2775, 2024.
