Brief biography:
Graduated from the Dalian University of Technology, China in 1997 with a BEng in Port and Waterway Engineering (a four-year first-degree programme).
After spending three years in the construction industry, I came to the UK in September 2000 to study for a DPhil at the University of Oxford, followed by one-year postdoctoral research in the same research group between 2005 and 2006. Also worked as a college lecturer at St Edmund Hall of Oxford University during my time in Oxford.
Joined Newcastle University in March 2006 as a Hydraulic Engineering Lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011 and Professor of Hydrosystems Modelling in 2013. Then in June 2018, I took up my current position as a Professor of Water Engineering in the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering at Loughborough University.
Professional Affiliations
- Member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR)
- Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Awards
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Outstanding Paper Award by the Journal of Flood Risk Management 2018
External Activities
- Management Director, International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR)
- Leadership Team, IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics
- Technical Program Committee (TPC), International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineering (ISOPE)
- Visiting professor at Kyoto University and Kobe University, Japan; Zhengzhou University, Wuhan University, Hohai University, Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), Xi’an University of Technology, China
- Professor and Honorary Vice President, Hebei University of Technology, China
- Editor/Editorial board: Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydro-environment Research, Journal of Hydrodynamics, Geoenvironmental Disasters, ICE-Water Management, Water Engineering and Science, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
- Reviewer for EPSRC, EPSRC, and British Council research grant applications
- Member of British Council Newton Fund Panel
Key collaborators
Research and enterprise activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners, including:
- UK universities: Newcastle, Reading, Manchester, Nottingham, UCL, Stirling, Hull, Swansea, Exeter
- Government organisations: CEH, BGS, Met Office, EA
- Consultants: JBA, Mott MacDonald, Arup
- International: TU Berlin, DPRI in Kyoto University, a range of universities and government organisations in China and South/Southeast Asia
