Profile

I am currently a Senior Lecturer 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

  • Member of European Geosciences Union (AGU)
  • Member of the transboundary Koshi DRR Knowledge Hub (KDKH)
  • Member of the Global Partnership for Smart Informatics and Multi-hazard Reduction (SIMR)

External activities

  • ​Conference organiser: Invited to serve the Scientific Committee and organize one of the 4 sessions of the 23rd Annual General Meeting of the UK China Association of Resources and Environment (UK-CARE), 13 and 14 November 2023, Wenzhou and Shenyang, China, and Loughborough, UK
  • ​Invited speeches/talks:
    -  ​"Assessing the potential impact of glacial lake outburst floods on individual objects using a high-performance hydrodynamic model and open-source data", the 5th International Symposium on Shallow Flows (ISSF 2021), 23-25 October 2021, Nanjing, China
    - "Fit-for-purpose high-resolution risk assessment and forecasting System for rainfall-induced Hazards in Bhutan", the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment, 21-27 September 2023, Chengdu, China
    ​- "Extraction of connected river networks from multi-temporal remote sensing imagery", the 5th China Symposium on Water Environment Modeling and Intelligent Decision, 25-27 October 2018, Yuxi, China
  • Invited reviewer for journals: ​‘Water Resources Research’, ‘Journal of Hydrology’, ‘Remote Sensing of Environment’, ‘Water’, ‘Remote Sensing’, ‘Geoenvironmental Disasters’, ‘Geoscience and Remote Sensing’, ‘Journal of Hydrodynamics’, ‘Natural Hazard’, ‘International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers’, etc.

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.