Title: Professor

Address: Room 926, Building No. A, IGSNRR

11A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101

People’s Republic of China

Tel: 86-10-6485-6515

Email: zhangyq@igsnrr.ac.cn

Education Background:

1997  BS, Geography (ranked 1st), Inner Mongolia Normal University, China

2000  MS, Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2004  PhD, Hydrology (the President Outstanding Award Winner), Chinese Academy of Sciences

Academic Awards:

2022  The Highly Cited Chinese Scientists selected by Scopus

2022  Most Valuable Earth Data Award: China National Earth Observation Data Center

2022  Top 100,000 global scientists listed by Globalauthorid

     The World's Top 2% Scientists listed by Stanford University

2021  The World's Top 2% Scientists listed by Stanford University

2019  President’s Invited Plenary Speaker: MSSANZ (MODSIM)

     Visiting Professor: Southern University of Science and Technology, China

2018  Visiting Professor: Southern University of Science and Technology, China

 Chairman’s Medal Award: CSIRO, Australia

2017  Early Career Research Excellence Award: MSSANZ (MODSIM)

2012  GN Alexander Medal: Engineers Australia

Visiting Professor: Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2006  Best 100 Chinese PhD dissertations (finalist): China

     Fellow: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany

2005  Fellow: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany

 Best PhD dissertation Award: Chinese Academy of Sciences

2004  President Outstanding Award: Chinese Academy of Sciences

Major Research Projects:

1. Large-scale megadroughts: propagations, scenario projections and smart system, The National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China.

2. Greening impacts on hydrological processes under complex land surface conditions, National Natural Science Foundation of China

3. Regional and global hydrology, Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Society Appointments:

Associate Editor (present):

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, AGU

Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier

Science of Remote Sensing, Elsevier

Remote Sensing Time Series Analysis section of Frontiers in Remote Sensing, Frontier

Editorial Board (present):

Remote Sensing of Environment, Elsevier

Sustainable Horizons, Elsevier

Chief Special Issue Editor:

Remote Sensing of Environment, Elsevier

Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier

Stream Leader of Hydroclimate, MSSANZ, Australia (2021-present)

Areas of Specialization:

Understanding and quantifying regional and global hydrological processes under climate change, water resource assessments, predicting floods and droughts, and integrated catchment management