Doctor Bin Wang

Doctor Bin Wang is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute, focusing on how plants and ecosystems respond to climate change. He is an expert in modelling the impacts of climate change on agriculture, forestry, and hydrology. His research focuses on understanding how climate change and variability affect crop yields, soil carbon, and forest productivity, with a particular interest in improving simulation models for better climate risk management. Dr Wang also studies the impacts of extreme events, such as droughts and heat, on crop productivity and develops agronomic strategies to mitigate these effects. Leveraging data mining and machine learning, he creates maps to predict soil carbon stock and explores how future climate conditions might affect plant growth and carbon storage in New South Wales.
Dr Wang obtained his PhD at the University of Technology Sydney in 2017. Since then, he joined the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (formerly NSW DPI) as a Research Scientist and has since been promoted to Senior Research Scientist (2024). Alongside his primary research role at the Institute, Dr. Wang maintains a part-time affiliation with NSW DPIRD, where he contributes to projects that apply scientific knowledge to practical solutions for sustainable land and resource management. He completed his undergraduate studies at Nanjing Agricultural University in China and also serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Gulbali Research Institute, Charles Sturt University.

Awards and recognition

Leading biophysical modelling sessions for MODSIM 2021 and MODSIM 2023
Nomination for the outstanding PhD thesis award from UTS (2017)

Project Grants

Quantifying the impacts of future climate change on vegetation
Co-Researchers: Ben Smith and Belinda Medlyn
Partner/funding body: GreenCollar
Period: 2024-2026