Profile

I am currently a Reader in Water Engineering at the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering at Loughborough University. My career at Loughborough commenced in January 2019, when I joined the School as a Research Associate. Previously, I was a Research Associate at Peking University. I received my BEng and MSc from Wuhan University, China, in 2010 and 2012, and my PhD from Peking University in 2016.

Professional affiliations

  • Secretary General of UK China Association of Resources and Environment
  • Associate Editor, ICE Proceedings in Water Management
  • Member of European Geosciences Union (EGU)
  • Member of the transboundary Koshi DRR Knowledge Hub (KDKH)
  • Member of the Global Partnership for Smart Informatics and Multi-hazard Reduction (SIMR)

Awards

  • 2024 Recipient, Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW; 2nd in the award team)

External activities

Conference organiser:

  • Co-chair and Session Convener, Second International Conference on Smart Informatics and Multi-hazard Reduction, 10-16 September 2025, Chengdu, China
  • Organising Committee Member, 25th Annual General Meeting of the UK China Association of Resources and Environment, 30 September - 3 October 2025, Zhengzhou, China
  • Organising Committee Member, the First International Conference on Smart Informatics and Multi-hazard Reduction, 15-19 September 2024, Loughborough, UK
  • Scientific Committee Member and Session Convener, the 23rd Annual General Meeting of the UK China Association of Resources and Environment, 13 and 14 November 2023, Wenzhou & Shenyang, China, and Loughborough, UK

Invited speeches/talks:

  • First International Conference on Smart Informatics and Multi-hazard Reduction, Loughborough, 2024
  • XIV Congress of International Association for Engineering Geology and Environment, Chengdu, China, 2023
  • 5th International Symposium on Shallow Flows (ISSF 2021), Nanjing, China, 2021
  • 5th China Symposium on Water Environment Modelling and Intelligent Decision, Yuxi, China, 2018

Key collaborators

My research and enterprise activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners, including:

  • Collaborative research leading to joint publications: Peking University (China), Hohai University (China), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (China), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS (China), Capital University of Economics and Business (China), University of Glasgow (UK), Brunel University London (UK), University of Regina (Canada), University of Oslo (Norway), Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (Japan), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD, Nepal), etc.
  • Joint funding applications: Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (Malawi), University of Uyo (Nigeria), University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), Royal University of Bhutan (Bhutan), Chengdu University of Technology (China), Newcastle University (UK), Swansea University (UK), University of Exeter (UK), University of Lincoln (UK), University of Oxford (UK), University of Leeds (UK), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Sweden), Helmholtz Zentrum HEREON GmbH (Germany), Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (Nederlands), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (France), University of Innsbruck (Austria), University of Bern (Switzerland), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), etc.
  • Invited research visits: ICIMOD (Nepal), Tribhuvan University (Nepal), Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (Nepal), Royal University of Bhutan (Bhutan), Zhengzhou University (China), Chang’an University (China), Xi'an University of Technology (China), North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (China), Nanjing University (China), Yunnan University (China), Birmingham University (UK), Exeter University (UK), etc.