Dr. Fengpeng Sun is an Assistant Professor and climate scientist from Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at University of Missouri–Kansas City. Dr. Sun obtained his Ph.D. in Earth System Science with a focus on climate dynamics from University of California, Irvine. After his Ph.D., he worked at University of California Los Angles (UCLA) Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences first as a postdoctoral researcher and then as an Assistant Researcher. Dr. Sun is a climate scientist with particular expertise in developing and implementing high-resolution regional climate modeling framework, and assessing climate variability, climate change and impacts from a regional and local perspective, which is most relevant to human activities.