Dr. Lu An (安璐)

Lu An (安璐) is an associate Professor (tenure track) in the College of Surveying and Geo-informatics at Tongji University, China. Her research interests are focused on better understanding and explaining ongoing changes in the Cryosphere, as well as reducing uncertainties in the ice sheet contribution to sea level rise using multiple satellite data.

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Lu graduated from Nanjing University, China in 2011, with a major in Atmopsheric Science, and received a PhD in 2017 in Department of Earth System Science at University of California, Irvine on “Bed topography of Greenland glaciers from high-resolution gravity data” supervised by Prof. Eric Rignot (NAS member).  

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​Lu has been working on using high-resolution airborne gravity data combined with other datasets to infer the bathymetry of fjords and bed topography of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica to create datasets critical to understand the role of ice-ocean interaction in controlling the evolution of glaciers and ice sheets. During her postdoc at University of California, Irvine, she participated the NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission, trying to figure out how much of Greenland’s ice melt is caused by warming oceans.