Our lab is affiliated with the Department of Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences and Computational Science at the University of Texas at El Paso. We are dedicated to exploring a wide spectrum of Earth and environmental sciences, particularly interested in Earth-life systems across different temporal and spatial scales. Our research is driven by the overarching goal of answering fundamental questions about the microscopic/macroscopic interactions, dynamical properties, and evolutionary processes of Earth-life systems as well as identifying basic rules governing Earth’s sustainability and exoplanets’ habitability. We use an ensemble of approaches, including mechanistic theoretical models (based on fundamental physics), high-dimensional mathematical models (with numerical simulations), machine learning methods and big data analyses, computational biology and bioinformatics as well as laboratory experiments and field observations.