Lian Zong is a visiting PhD student from Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), who has been awarded a scholarship by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to study at Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, National Research Council of Italy (CNR- IMAA) and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Florence. She mainly focus on Urban Boundary Layer Processes and their Climatic Environmental Effects, Application of LiDAR in Atmospheric Environment Monitoring.

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