柴元方，浙江师范大学地理与环境科学学院双龙特聘教授。2022年毕业于阿姆斯特丹自由大学，获生态水文学博士学位。主要研究方向为解析流域水文演变、生态过程响应与气候变化预估之间的跨圈层耦合机制，致力于揭示全球变化背景下水循环与生态系统相互作用的关键科学难题。以第一或通讯作者身份在SCI期刊发表论文20余篇，近五年以第一作者在Nature Climate Change、One Earth（Cell子刊）、Nature Communications（2022年与2026年）、Science Bulletin、npj Climate and Atmospheric Science和Journal of Hydrology等高水平期刊发表系列论文10余篇，成果被《Nature》《Science》等权威期刊多次引用。其中，发表于《Nature Communications》的论文所提出的气候预估约束方法入选全省实验室首批亮点科技成果；1篇论文获中国水利学会学术年会优秀论文奖；2篇论文入选ESI高被引论文；授权发明专利2项。现主持国家自然科学基金、浙江省自然科学基金重点项目等多项科研任务。
近期5篇代表作如下：
Yuanfang Chai; Chiyuan Miao; Pierre Gentine; Lawrence Mudryk; Chad W. Thackeray; Wouter R. Berghuijs; Yi Wu; Xuewei Fan; Louise Slater; Qiaohong Sun; Francis Zwiers; Constrained Earth system models show a stronger reduction in future Northern Hemisphere snowmelt water, Nature Climate Change, 2025, 15(5): 514-520;
Yuanfang Chai; Chiyuan Miao; Amir AghaKouchak; Yadu Pokhrel; Yongshuo Fu; Xiaoyan Li; Jiachen Ji; Qi Zhang; Josep Peñuelas; Flash droughts exacerbate global vegetation loss and delay recovery, Nature communications, 2025, 17(485): 1-11;
Yuanfang Chai; Yao Yue; Louise J. Slater; Jiabo Yin; Alistair G. L. Borthwick; Tiexi Chen; Guojie Wang; Constrained CMIP6 projections indicate less warming and a slower increase in water availability across Asia, Nature Communications, 2022, 13(01): 4124;
Yuanfang Chai; Chiyuan Miao; Louise Slater; Philippe Ciais; Wouter R. Berghuijs; Tiexi Chen; Chris Huntingford; Underestimating global land greening: Future vegetation changes and their impacts on terrestrial water loss, One Earth, 2025, 8(2): 101176;
Yuanfang Chai; Yao Yue; Alistair GL Borthwick; Yichu Wang; Louise Slater; Dunxian She; Dongpu Feng; Chiyuan Miao; Water resources remain sustainable in global revegetated regions, Science Bulletin, 2025, 70(23): 4080-4090;