Prof. Qiuwen Chen
Department of Eco-environmental Research, Nanjing Hydraulic Research InstituteSpeech Title:
Biography: Prof. Qiuwen Chen received PhD from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands in 2004. He was awarded the “100 Talents Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences in the same year and worked in Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences till 2013. Since then, he worked in Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute and established the Department of Eco-environmental Research from scratch. He has been long engaged in Eco-environmental conservation for hydraulic engineering and water resources development. He has published more than 400 international peer-reviewed papers, and was awarded the 20th Arthur Thomas Ippen Award from the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering (IAHR) and the Xplore Prize. He is now the chairman of Global Water Security of IHAR, and associate editor of 2 international journals.