Brief:
I'm a climate change scientist with interests in climate change impact assessment, urban heat islands, regional climate modeling, global water resources, and machine learning.
My research began with statistical and dynamical downscaling of climate model outputs and examining the hydrological impacts of climate change. Currently, I focus on accurately forecasting heat stress under global warming and developing effective adaptation and mitigation strategies for society. To achieve these goals, I utilize a variety of tools, including multi-source datasets (e.g., station data, remote sensing, climate model simulations, mortality/morbidity observations), physical-based numerical modeling (e.g., WRF), and machine learning techniques.
Work:
2025.06 - Now, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (PI), University of Tsukuba
2024.10 - 2025.05, Project Assistant Professor (特任助教), University of Tokyo
2023.10 - 2024.09, Project Researcher (特任研究員), University of Tokyo
Education:
2020-2023, Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo
2017-2020, M.E., Hydrology, Wuhan University
2013-2017, B.E., Hydrology and Information Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
Language Proficiency:
English: Professional (TOEFL 101, GRE 324)
Japanese: Daily Communication (JLPT N2)
Chinese: Native
Academic Service:
• Reviewer of Nature Water, Nature Health, Nature Communications, Communications Earth & Environment, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, npj Digital Medicine, Environmental Science & Technology, JGR-Atmospheres, GeoHealth, Environmental Research Letters, Environmental Research Communications, Climate Dynamics, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Climatic Change, iScience, Theoretical and Applied Climatology
• AGU GeoHealth Early Career Researcher (ECR) Committee Member (2024-2025)
• Convenor of session “GH001: Actionable GeoHealth research for climate and health adaptation and decision-support”of AGU 2024, Washington, D.C., USA, 9-13 December 2024
Selected Awards and honors:
• Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Graduate School of Engineering Dean's Prize, University of Tokyo (東京大学工学系研究科長賞(博士)), 2024
• "Excellent Academic Master's Thesis" in The 3rd National Outstanding Graduate Dissertation Selection for Water Conservancy Majors, 2022
• Best Presentation Award of Hydrosphere Science Project (HSP, 2021), The University of Tokyo, 2021
• MEXT Ph.D. Scholarship (University Recommendation, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, 2020 - 2023)
• Excellent graduate of Wuhan University, 2020
• Second-prize in 14th "Huawei Cup" National Post-Graduate Mathematical Modeling Contest of China, 2017
• Excellent graduate of HUST, 2017
• Outstanding student leader of HUST, 2015
• Outstanding student leader of HUST, 2014
Selected Publications:
• Qiang Guo*, Lina Madaniyazi, Shuhei Nomura, Kai Chen, and Masahiro Hashizume, 2025: Population aging exacerbates heat stroke-related ambulance transportations in Japan, Environment International, 199 (5), 109506.
• Qiang Guo*, Vera Ling Hui Phung, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Kazutaka Oka, Yasushi Honda, and Masahiro Hashizume, 2025: Comparing Integrated Heat Stress Indicators With Raw Meteorological Variables in Predicting Heat Stroke-Related Ambulance Transportations in Japan, GeoHealth, 9(4), e2024GH001257.
• Qiang Guo*, Malcolm N. Mistry, Xudong Zhou, Gang Zhao, Kanon Kino, Bo Wen, Kei Yoshimura, Yusuke Satoh, Ivana Cvijanovic, Yoonhee Kim, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera, Ben Armstrong, Aleš Urban, Klea Katsouyanni, Pierre Masselot, Shilu Tong, Francesco Sera, Veronika Huber, Michelle L. Bell, Jan Kyselý, Multi-Country Multi-City (MCC) Collaborative Research Network, Antonio Gasparrini, Masahiro Hashizume, Taikan Oki, 2024: Regional Variation in the Role of Humidity on City-level Heat-Related Mortality, PNAS Nexus, 3(8), pgae290. (Media Coverage in English: U-Tokyo,
EurekAlert,
Alpha Galileo
in Japanese: U-Tokyo,
Tech+,
Nikkei (日経新聞),
Nikkan Kogyo (⽇刊⼯業新聞))
• Qiang Guo*, Lei Yuan, Chris Fook Sheng Ng, and Masahiro Hashizume, 2024: Evaluating Japan's revised heat-health warning system in the face of recent escalating heat stress, Environmental Research Letters, 19, 054002.
• Qiang Guo*, and Kenshi Hibino, 2023: Physical responses of Baiu extreme precipitation to future warming: examples of the 2018 and 2020 western Japan events, Weather and Climate Extremes, Vol. 39, 100547.
• Qiang Guo*, Xudong Zhou, Yusuke Satoh, and Taikan Oki, 2022: Irrigated cropland expansion exacerbates the urban moist heat stress in northern India, Environmental Research Letters, 17, 054013.
• Qiang Guo, Jie Chen*, Xunchang John Zhang, Chong-Yu Xu, and Hua Chen, 2020: Impacts of Using State‐of‐the‐Art Multivariate Bias Correction Methods on Hydrological Modeling Over North America, Water Resources Research, 56(5), e2019WR026659.
• Qiang Guo, Jie Chen*, Xunchang John Zhang, Mingxi Shen, Hua Chen, and Shenglian Guo, 2019: A new two-stage multivariate quantile mapping method for bias correcting climate model outputs, Climate Dynamics, 53, 3603-3623.