Author: Wei Cheng

Hongwei Fang got the academic degree of Bachelor, Master and Doctor in Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering in 1988, 1990 and 1993, respectively. He is now a full professor and doctoral supervisor of Tsinghua University, the Yangtze Chair Professor of the Education Ministry of China, and the winner of National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars. He once engaged in research work in Florida State University of America and Kyoto University of Japan as a visiting scholar and worked in Karlsruhe University of Germany as Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. Currently he serves for many academic part-time jobs, such as the chief editor of International Journal of Sediment Research, associate editor of Journal of Hydraulic Engineering – ASCE, the council member of American Society of Civil Engineers and Turbulence Committee, and so on. His research areas concern on the dynamics of river, estuary and coast, water environment and water ecology, environmental sediment, hydraulics digitization, and so on. The research results won the awards of the Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award and the First Prize of Science and Technology Progress Award of the Education Ministry of China, etc. He has published more than 100 academic papers in various journals including JFM, WR, JHE-ASCE, JHR-IAHR, etc.