External funds
- Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (Principal Investigator)
- Project Title: A Bayesian Approach to Precipitation Reconstruction in China during the Little Ice Age based on Archives of Societies
- Funding source: University Grants Committee
- Period: 2023–2024
- General Research Fund, University Grants Committee (Principal Investigator)
- Project title: Climate Change and Agrarian-nomadic Migration across the Great Wall during the Little Ice Age
- Funding source: University Grants Committee
- Period: 2022–2025
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Co-Investigator)
- Funding source: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Period: 2021–2025
- National Natural Science Fund of China (Co-Investigator)
- Funding source: National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Period: 2020–2023
- The PAGES (Past Global Changes) project (Principal Investigator and leader)
- Funding source: Swiss Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Period: 2018–2022
- Early Career Scheme, University Grants Committee (Principal Investigator)
- Project title: Climate change and economic vulnerabilities in early modern China
- Funding source: University Grants Committee
- Period: 2018–2019
- Croucher Fund for Chinese Visitorship (Principal Investigator)
- Funding source: Croucher Foundation
- Period: 2017–2018
- Tin Ka Ping Fund (Principal Investigator)
- Funding source: Tin Ka Ping Foundation
- Period: 2017–2018, 2016-2017