Director: Prof. Zongxue Xu

Born in 1962, Prof. Zongxue Xu from Zibo City in Shandong Province, received his doctorate in engineering from Wuhan Institute of Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering in 1988. In the same year, he joined the Department of Hydraulic Engineering at Tsinghua University. After he worked in Germany and Japan for more than 10 years, Prof. Xu joined Beijing Normal University as the distinguished “Jingshi Scholar” distiguished professor in 2003. Prof. Xu ever served as the deputy dean, College of Water Sciences at Beijing Normal University. Presently, he serves as the director, Beijing Key Laboratory of Urban Hydrological Cycle and Sponge City Technology. He also serves as Vice President, International Association for Hydrological Science (IAHS); Vice Chairman, Chinese National Committee for IAHS; and member, Chinese National Committee, International Hydrological Programme (IHP) for UNESCO; member, Chinese National Committee, The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), and Chinese National Committee, Global Water System Program (GWSP). Prof. Xu also serves as Deputy Director, Committee of Municipal Water Conservancy, and Committee of Ecological Hydraulic Engineering, Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society. Prof. Xu has won more than 20 awards for outstanding research as well as educational and teaching achievements conferred by organizations such as the Ministries of Education, Water Resources, and Environmental Protection, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Beijing Normal University. In 1997, he was awarded the Humboldt Fellowship in Germany. In 2007, he received an award “Outstanding Contribution for International Hydrological Cooperation” from the Chinese National Committee of the International Hydrological Program (IHP). He also received an “Endeavor Executive Award” from Australia Federal Government. In 2010, Prof. Xu was awarded the “Advanced Individuals in China's Environmental Macrostrategic Research” by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In 2013, he received the “Excellent Science and Technology Award” from the Chinese Natural Resources Society. To date, Professor Xu has published ten monographs and textbooks and more than 380 academic papers, with more than 200 papers indexed by SCI/EI. He currently serves as the associate editor or editorial members of notable journals such as Water Science and Engineering, International Journal of Water (IJW), Desert, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Advances in Water Sciences, and China Hydrology, and reviews manuscripts for more than 50 well-known academic journals.

Executive Deputy Director: Prof. Jingshan Yu

Born in 1965, Professor Jingshan Yu is a professor, supervisor of doctoral students, and former head of the Department of Hydrology and Water Resources at the College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University. He is primarily engaged in research on hydrology and water resources and digital watersheds. He worked as a systems engineer at SEA Japan. His accomplishments include winning the first and second prizes awarded by the Ministry of Education and the Dayu Award conferred by the Ministry of Water Resources. Professor Yu has published two monograph and more than 100 papers. He has obtained a patent for a national invention and developed more than 20 copyrighted computer software programs in academic journals at home and abroad. As the former head of the software department of SEA Corporation, Japan, he developed side-scan sonar software, which is being used by the United States Navy.

Deputy Director: Prof. Qingyi Meng

Born in 1964, Qingyi Meng is a senior engineer and vice president of the Beijing Institute of Water Science and Technology. He is a member of several committees and institutions. These include Ministry of Water Resources 5151, Municipal Water Conservancy Committee of the Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society, Hydraulic Engineering Committee of the China Hydropower Engineering Society, Beijing City Science Research Association, and Beijing Hyaraulic Engineering Society. Awards conferred on him include the National Agriculture and Forestry Industry Labor Medal in 2008, and the Capital Labor Medal in 2011. He is mainly engaged in technical research and consultancy work relating to areas such as the improvement of water environments and the management of ecological watersheds.

Deputy Director: Prof. Xiaoxin Zhang

Born in April 1973, Prof. Xiaoxin Zhang is a senior engineer, who directs the Municipal Planning Institute, Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design. In 2008, he was elected as the candidate of “Millions of talents engineering in the new century” of Beijing Municipality. He is also serve as the member of the Academic Engineering Planning Committee, China Urban Planning Society, director of the Beijing Fire Protection Association. He has extensive experience in the area of urban municipal planning and related fields, and has conducted research on the topics of municipal infrastructure planning of historical and cultural conservation areas in Beijing’s Old City, and is engaged in an ongoing study on Beijing municipal water conservation planning (2006—2020). Prof. Zhang also conducted a study aimed at developing system planning and design standards for urban rainwater in Beijing during the period of the 12th Five-Year Plan. Furthermore, he has participated in many important planning projects that have won awards at the provincial and ministerial levels. These include spatial layout planning of an underground pipe network, an ecological demonstration project guide of ecological development demonstration area of Yanqi Lake in Beijing, and system planning in central Beijing for flood control and prevention of waterlogging prevention. Prof. Zhang has published more than twenty papers.

Deputy Director: Associate Prof. Bo Pang

Bo Pang, born in 1979, is an associate professor and supervisor of doctoral students. He is a postdoctoral fellow of Helmholtz Research Center, Germany, a visiting scholar of the University of Iowa, USA, and a member of the Committee on Hydrometeorology of the Chinese Meteorological Society. He is mainly engaged in the research of urban hydrology, flood risk and hydrological uncertainty. He has published more than 50 papers in core journals of hydrology and water resources domestic and international academic conference proceedings, hosted and participated in more than 20 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, and co-edited 3 books He has received one award at provincial and ministerial level.