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Prof Qiuhua Liang received his BEng in Civil Engineering from Dalian University of Technology, China in 1997, and DPhil in Computational Hydraulics from University of Oxford in 2005. He started to work as a lecturer in Newcastle University in March 2006, and had since been promoted to senior lecturer (2011) and full Professor of Hydrosystems Modelling (2013). He joined Loughborough University as Chair Professor of Water Engineering in June 2018 and established the multi-disciplinary Hydro-Environmental Modelling Laboratory (HEMLab) for natural hazard risk management and resilience. He has extensive experience in developing high-performance computer models for predicting/forecasting natural hazards, incl. different types of floods, landslides, debris flows and tsunamis, and assessing their risk. The resulting models, including his team’s flagship model High-Performance Integrated Hydrodynamic Modelling System (HiPIMS), have been widely applied to support flood risk forecasting and assessment in the UK, China, Japan, Nepal, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, etc. through funded research projects and collaborations. Over the last 15 years, he has worked as PI or Co-I on over 20 major research grant contracts from the UK Research Councils and other funders worth over £8.5M. He has published more than 100 refereed papers in leading ISI journals and several of these papers were ranked as the ‘highest-cited papers’ by the respective journals (e.g. Advances in Water Resources and Computers & Fluids) and received ‘best paper’ awards. He has been invited as visiting/adjunct professor in Kyoto and Kobe Universities in Japan and several universities/research organisations in China. He is a management director of the International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR) and sits on the leadership team of the IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics. He is also associate/editor of several academic journals including Journal of Hydrology, Journal of Hydro-environment Research, Geoenvironmental Disasters, ICI-Water Management.
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