Professor Lou Wei

Luo Wei is an Assistant Professor in Geography Department and Joint Assistant Professor in Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health at National University of Singapore. Before he joined in NUS, he was a Research Associate at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received Master degree from Geography department at University at Buffalo and PhD degree at Penn State University. He leads GeoSpatialX Lab at NUS to conduct interdisciplinary research to address some of the most critical challenges facing the world, including spatial epidemiology, international trade and supply chain, energy crisis, food security, climate change, and so on. He has won Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars and Waldo-Tobler Young Researcher Award from Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Commission of GIScience. He has more than 40 publications with 3000 citations including some top profile journals such as Nature, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, and Physics Reports. His work has received attention from media outlets such as CCTV.