Wenyuan Ma is a wildfire scientist working as a postdoctoral fellow at UNSW Canberra. She has background in Statistics, Geographic Information Science, and Forestry.

Wenyuan’s research focuses on understanding extreme fire regimes. Her PhD work provided key insights into the geographical patterns of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) occurrence. Building on this foundation, her current work expands beyond pyroCb to broader extreme fire regimes, including blow-up fires. Her current work focuses on developing a comprehensive database of extreme fire events, applying statistical and machine learning models to analyze spatial patterns and influencing factors, and utilizing climate projection modeling to assess future risks.

She expects to recive her PhD in June 2025.