Introduction

    Prof. Jun Xia is the academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Chair Professor & Director, The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University, also Director, Center for Water Resources Research (CWRR), CAS. He has ample experiences on leading hydrology, water resources research, managing and consulting jobs in China and international since 1987. He was severed as the President of International Water Resources Association (IWRA, 2009-2012), Board Governor of World Water Council (WWC, 2009-2015), Co-Chair, InterAcademy Council for Water Programme (2004-2010), Bureau Member for International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) since 2019. He was awarded “International Hydrological Prize -Volker Medal”, given by IAHS, UNESCO and WMO in 2014, the 2017’s State Natural Science Award in China，2019’s IUGG Elected Fellow and 2022’s International Conference on Water Resources and Environment Research (ICWRER) Lifetime Achievement Award. He has published 184 journal papers indexed by SCI, 171 journal papers indexed by EI, 47 books; and his H-index up to 59, i10 index of 271, papers cited 14452 times till now by Google Search. His expertise is hydrology, nonlinear system approach coupled with environment changing and human activity and water resources management & policy. 

Contacted ways

The Research Institute for Water Security (RIWS), Wuhan University, 430072, Wuhan, China