Jason Blake Cohen

Dr. Jason Blake Cohen is a Professor at the China University of Mining and Technology. He received his Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2010, following an M.S. from the California Institute of Technology and an A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley. He previously held faculty positions at the National University of Singapore and Sun Yat-sen University before joining CUMT.

His research focuses on integrating satellite remote sensing with forward and inverse modeling to quantify short-lived climate forcers, with emphasis on absorbing aerosols (black carbon) and their microphysical properties, emissions, and radiative forcing. He developed the COSMO (Core-Shell Mie model Optimization) framework, which combines multi-angle and multi-spectral observations from various satellite, surface, and in-situ observational platforms and their uncertainty bands, to constrain per particle and total column properties consistent across all observational platforms.

Dr. Cohen serves as an Editor for Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and is a Director of the Atmospheric Environmental Remote Sensing Society. His honors include the Jiangsu Province Foreign Friendship Award (2024) and the Jiangsu Province May Day Labor Honor Medal (2023). He currently leads and participates in projects funded by NSFC, the National Key R&D Program, and the UNEP International Methane Emissions Observatory.