2014年-2019年，美国德州农工大学，博士
2011年-2014年，中国海洋大学，硕士
2007年-2011年，中国海洋大学，学士

2022年9月至今，上海交通大学海洋学院，长聘教轨助理教授
2021年10月-2022年8月，美国西北太平洋国家实验室，博士后
2019年10月-2021年10月，美国斯坦福大学，博士后
2019年8月-2019年10月，美国德州农工大学，博士后

海洋亚中尺度过程，海洋近惯性内波，近海动力学，海洋混合过程，地球流体动力学

6. 基于拉格朗日欧拉扩散示踪法的长江口中小尺度涡空中遥感与水下立体观测技术，上海交通大学深蓝计划重点II类项目，2023-2024，骨干
5. 夏季南海北部跨陆架输运年际变化特征及其动力机制，国家自然科学基金面上项目，2021-2024，骨干
4. Integrated Coastal Modeling Project, US Department of Energy, 骨干
3. Submesoscale Under Near-Resonant Inertial Shear Experiment, US National Science Foundation, 2019-2023, 骨干
2. Consortium for Simulation of Oil-Microbial Interactions in the Ocean, Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, 2018-2020, 骨干
1. Effects of Near-inertial Oscillations on Baroclinic Instabilities in a Large Buoyancy Driven Current, Texas Sea Grant Grants-in-Aid of Graduate Research Program, 2018-2019, 主持

第一作者/通讯作者(*)论文：
9. Schlichting, D.*, Qu, L.*, Kobashi, D., & Hetland, R. D. (under review). Quantification of physical and numerical mixing in a coastal ocean model using salinity variance budgets. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems.
8. Qu, L.*, Thomas, L. N.*, Wienkers, A. F., Hetland, R. D., Kobashi, D., Taylor, J. R., Hsu, F. H. W., MacKinnon, J. A., Shearman, R. K., & Nash, J. D. (2022). Rapid vertical exchange at fronts in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1-11.
7. Qu, L., Hetland, R. D.*, & Schlichting, D. (2022). Mixing pathways in simple box models. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(11), 2761-2772.
6. Qu, L.*, Thomas, L. N., Hetland, R. D., & Kobashi, D. (2022). Mixing driven by critical reflection of near-inertial waves over the Texas-Louisiana Shelf. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 52(11), 2891-2906.
5. Qu, L.*, Thomas, L., & Gula, J. (2021). Bottom mixing enhanced by tropical storm-generated near-inertial waves entering critical layers in the Straits of Florida. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(15), e2021GL093773.
4. Qu, L.*, Thomas, L. N., & Hetland, R. D. (2021). Near-inertial-wave critical layers over sloping bathymetry. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 51(6), 1737-1756.
3. Qu, L.*, & Hetland, R. D. (2020). Nongeostrophic baroclinic instability over sloping bathymetry: Buoyant flow regime. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50(7), 1937-1956.
2. Qu, L.*, & Hetland, R. D. (2019). Temporal resolution of wind forcing required for river plume simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124(3), 1459-1473.
1. Qu, L.*, Lin, X., Hetland, R. D., & Guo, J. (2018). The asymmetric continental shelf wave in response to the synoptic wind burst in a semienclosed double‐shelf basin. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(1), 131-148.

合作论文：
2. Thyng, K. M.*, Kobashi, D., Ruiz-Xomchuk, V., Qu, L., Chen, X., & Hetland, R. D. (2021). Performance of offline passive tracer advection in the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS; v3. 6, revision 904). Geoscientific Model Development, 14(1), 391-407.
1. Ruiz Xomchuk, V.*, Hetland, R. D., & Qu, L. (2021). Small‐scale variability of bottom oxygen in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(1), e2020JC016279.

地球流体动力学
海洋科学研究引论

北太平洋近海观测系统(NPCOOS)咨询专家组成员，北太平洋海洋科学组织(PICES)
Frontiers in Marine Science杂志Review Editor

Chapman Award for Graduate Research, Texas A&M University, 2017
Ross Graduate Scholarship, Texas A&M University, 2017
Webber Fellowship in Oceanography, Texas A&M University, 2016
Robert O. Reid Oceanography Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 2015
Sharp Graduate Scholarship, Texas A&M University, 2014 及 2018
国家奖学金，中国海洋大学，2009 及 2010