2012, Ph. D. in Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. Advisor: Prof. Shang-Ping Xie
2004, M. Sc. in Physical Oceanography, First Institute of Oceanography, China. Advisors: Profs. Yeli Yuan & Fangli Qiao
2001, B. Sc. in Mechanics, Peking University, China. Advisor: Sen. Eng. Jiyan Huo

2019-Present, Enlightening Young Scholar/Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2015-2019, Chair Professor, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, China
2014-2015, Postdoctoral Associate, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA, USA
2013, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, USA
2006-2012, Research Assistant, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
2005, Assistant Researcher, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China
2001-2005, Research Assistant, First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China

Climate and ocean, dynamics and change;
Regional changes of sea surface temperature (SST), wind, precipitation, vapor, cloud, and hurricane environment;
Constrain uncertainties in SST patterns, cloud feedback, and climate projections with satellite and UAV observations.

2017-2020, NSFC General, Responses of Water Vapor and Cloud Radiative Feedbacks to SST
2015-2018, Shanghai Edu, Chair Professorship of Shanghai Universities
2017-2019, Shanghai HR, Expert Development Fund: Tropical Cyclone Environment

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (*Corresponding)
Ma, J.,* and Q. Liu, 2018. Nonuniformity of climate change among ocean basins on the background of global warming. 10000 Selected Problems in Sciences -- Ocean Science, Science Press, 1089-1093. (In Chinese)
Ma, J.,* 2018. Rainfall and climate feedbacks. Nat. Geosci., 11(6), 389, doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0135-3.
Ma, J.,* R. Chadwick, K.-H. Seo, C. Dong, G. Huang, G. R. Foltz, and J. H. Jiang, 2018. Responses of the tropical atmospheric circulation to climate change and connection to the hydrological cycle. Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 46, 549-580, doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-082517-010102.
Ma, J.,* G. R. Foltz, B. J. Soden, G. Huang, J. He, and C. Dong, 2016. Will surface winds weaken in response to global warming? Env. Res. Lett., 11, 124012.
Ma, J.,* and J.-Y. Yu, 2014a. Linking centennial surface warming patterns in the equatorial Pacific to the relative strengths of the Walker and Hadley circulations. J. Atmos. Sci., 71, 3454-3464.
Ma, J.,* and J.-Y. Yu, 2014b. Paradox in South Asian summer monsoon circulation change: Lower tropospheric strengthening and upper tropospheric weakening. Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 2934-2940, doi:10.1002/2014GL059891.
Ma, J.,* and S.-P. Xie, 2013. Regional patterns of sea surface temperature change: A source of uncertainty in future projections of precipitation and atmospheric circulation. J. Climate, 26, 2482-2501.
Ma, J.,* S.-P. Xie, and Y. Kosaka, 2012. Mechanisms for tropical tropospheric circulation change in response to global warming. J. Climate, 25, 2979-2994.
Ma, J.,* and Coauthors, 2009. Student-proposed cruise captured wakes of Oahu and Kauai Islands. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 1073-1077, doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2551.1.
Ma, J.,* F. Qiao, C. Xia, and C. S. Kim, 2006. Effects of the Yellow Sea Warm Current on the winter tempera-ture distribution in a numerical model. J. Geophys. Res., 111, C11S04, doi:10.1029/2005JC003171.
Ma, J.,* and F. Qiao, 2004. Simulation and analysis on seasonal variability of average salinity in the Yellow Sea. Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol., 22(3), 306-313.
Ma, J.,* F. Qiao, C. Xia, and Y. Yang, 2004. Tidal effects on temperature front in the Yellow Sea. Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol., 22(3), 314-321.
Zhang, J., J. Ma,* J. Che, Z. Zhou, and G. Gao, 2020. Surface warming patterns dominate the uncertainty in global water vapor plus lapse rate feedback. Acta Oceanol. Sinica, 39(3), 81–89, doi:10.1007/s13131-019-1531-2.
Zhang, Q.-H., J. Ma,* and Y. Qu, 2016. Bessel equation in the semiunbounded interval : Solving in the neighbourhood of an irregular singular point. Int. J. Math. Math. Sci., 2016, 6826482.
Zhang, Q.-H., J. Ma,* and Y. Qu, 2016. Unified solution for the Legendre equation in the interval [-1, 1] -- An example of solving linear singular ordinary differential equations. Appl. Math. Comp., 289, 311-323.
Zhang, Q.-H., Y. Qu, X. Yin, and J. Ma, 2017. A theoretical model for the antarctic circumpolar current -- neglecting the obstruction of Australia and Africa. Chin. J. Hydrodyn., A32(6), 659-670. (In Chinese)
Weller, E., M. Feng, H. Hendon, J. Ma, S.-P. Xie, and N. Caputi, 2012. Interannual variations of wind regimes off the subtropical Western Australia coast during austral winter and spring. J. Climate, 25, 5587-5599.
Li, J., S.-P. Xie, E. R. Cook, G. Huang, R. D'Arrigo, F. Liu, J. Ma, and X.-T. Zheng, 2011. Interdecadal modulation of El Niño amplitude during the past millennium. Nature Clim. Change, 1, 114-118, doi:10.1038/nclimate1086.
Xie, S.-P., C. Deser, G. A. Vecchi, J. Ma, H. Teng, and A. T. Wittenberg, 2010. Global warming pattern formation: Sea surface temperature and rainfall. J. Climate, 23, 966-986.
Yang, Y., J. Ma, and S.-P. Xie, 2008. Observations of the trade wind wakes of Kauai and Oahu. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L04807, doi:10.1029/2007GL031742.
Zhang, Q.-H., S. Chen, J. Ma, and Y. Qu, 2007. Solutions of linear ordinary differential equations with non-singular varying coefficients by using the corrected Fourier series. Appl. Math. Comput., 213, 765-776.
Xia, C., F. Qiao, Y. Yang, J. Ma, and Y. Yuan, 2006. Three‐dimensional structure of the summertime circulation in the Yellow Sea from a wave‐tide‐circulation coupled model. J. Geophys. Res., 111, C11S03, doi:10.1029/2005JC003218.
Qiao, F., G. Fang, C. Xia, Y. Yang, J. Ma, and Y. Yuan, 2006. The role of surface waves in the ocean mixed layer. J. Hydrodyn., B18(3), 519, doi:10.1016/S1001-6058(06)60105-4.
Qiao, F., J. Ma, C. Xia, Y. Yang, and Y. Yuan, 2006. Influences of the surface wave-induced mixing and tidal mixing on the vertical temperature structure of the Yellow and East China Seas in summer. Prog. Nat. Sci., 16(7), 739-746.
Qiao, F., J. Ma, C. Xia, Y. Yang, and Y. Yuan, 2004. Influence of the wave-induced mixing and tidal mixing on the vertical temperature structure in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea in summer. Prog. Nat. Sci., 14(12), 1434-1441. (In Chinese)
Qiao, F., Y. Yuan, Y. Yang, Q. Zheng, C. Xia, and J. Ma, 2004. Wave-induced mixing in the upper ocean: Distribution and application to a global ocean circulation model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L11303, doi: 10.1029/2004GL019824.
Qiao, F., J. Ma, Y. Yang, and Y. Yuan, 2004. Simulation of the temperature and salinity along 36°N in the Yellow Sea with a wave-current coupled model. J. Korean Soc. Oceanogr., 39(1), 35-45.
Qiao, F., C. Xia, J. Shi, J. Ma, R. Ge, and Y. Yuan, 2004. Seasonal variability of thermocline in the Yellow Sea. Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol., 22(3), 299-305.
Yang, Y., F. Qiao, C. Xia, J. Ma, and Y. Yuan, 2004. Wave-induced mixing in the Yellow Sea. Chin. J. Oceanol. Limnol., 22(3), 322-326.
Zhang, Q., X. Yin, J. Ma, and Y. Qu, 2004. Analytic method for inversing the open boundary conditions in a semi-closed sea area: Case I for inversing the tidal levels at open boundary. J. Hydrodyn., B16(5), 590-595.
Yang, Y., F. Qiao, C. Xia, J. Ma, and Y. Yuan, 2003. Effect of ocean wave momentum and mixing on upper ocean. Adv. Mar. Sci., 21(4), 363-368. (In Chinese)

2020-Present, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Credit: 2
2020-Present, Modeling Theories and Numerical Methods in Physical Oceanography, Credit: 2

2019, New type of healthy laptop with an extendable display, Patent No. ZL201480023665.2

Since 2017, Editor, Geoscience Letters, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
Since 2014, Editor, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Geosciences

2018, Winner of Nature Geoscience’s 10th Anniversary -- Geostory Competition
2017, Expert Development Fund of Shanghai
2012, Grant for Travel, Registration, and Accomodation of 6th Graduate Climate Conference
2009, Grant for Travel and Accomodation of KISS Mini Program on Climate Feedbacks & …
2006, Award of Ship Time and Cost for SOEST Student Cruise around Oahu and Kauai
2004, Berkner Travel Fellowship for Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting
2003, 2004, Excellent Graduate of Key Laboratory of Marine Sciences & Numerical Modeling
1997 Undergraduate Excellence Scholarship of Peking University