Deputy Director and Associate Professor of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University
Editorial Board Member of Water and  Chinese Chemical Letters
World's Top 2% Scientists 2020-2024

Professor of Civil Engineering at ATU, Sligo, Ireland

Member of Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) - Membership Number AM-26454

Member of Engineers New Zealand - Membership Number 2002538

Member of Water Engineers, New Zealand

Life Member of Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science

Member of National Science Foundation – SL, NSF/STMIS/009455

Member of International Association of hydrological Sciences (IAHS) 

Secretary of WSSET and Senior Research Fellow in the Buildings Energy and Environment Research Group

Min Cheng received his PhD degree under the supervision of Prof. Guangming Zeng from Hunan University, China, in 2018. He is currently an associate professor at the College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Hunan University. His current research interests focus on the development of MOF-based materials and porous materials for applications in catalysis and separation. Dr. Cheng has been the principal investigator of 7 scientific research projects including the programs for the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has independently and cooperatively published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in SCI journals such as Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, and Water Research, 28 of them were listed as ESI hot papers and 62 of them were listed as ESI highly cited papers. The published SCI papers have been cited more than 20000 times with h-index 103. Also, he authored the book "Metal-Organic Framework Materials-Applications in Environmental and Health Fields". He have been included in the list of "World's Top 2% Scientists" (Single year impact 2021-2025, Career-long impact 2023, 2024) released by Stanford University and Elsevier. In 2024, He was listed in the "Top 0.05% Highly Ranked Scholar - Prior 5 Years" released by ScholarGPS.

World’s Top 2% Scientists 2022

World’s Top 2% Scientists 2021-2024

Member of Institue of Engineering and Technology (IET)

Member of World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies (WSSET)

Editorial Board Journal of Building Engineering and Environment 2019- present

Editorial Board Future Cities and Environment journal 2020- present

Khalil Ahmad is currently working as Assistant Professor at Department of Chemistry, Emerson University Multan, Pakistan. He has published more then 40 peer-reviewed articles in well-known international peer reviewed journals.

Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Lahore, Pakistan

Top 2% of scientists globally for two consecutive years (2023, 2024)

Research Fellow at INTI University and Shinawatra University, Thailand

Abdeltif Amrane is a distinguished French–Algerian professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering (air and water treatment) at the University of Rennes 1 since 2018, where he holds the exceptional-class chair and serves as Deputy Director of the Chemistry Department. After graduating in chemical engineering from USTHB Algiers (1987) and obtaining his PhD (1991) and Habilitation (1998) in chemistry from the University of Rennes 1, he progressed from associate professor (1993–2001) to full professor (2001–present). Within the “Chimie et Ingénierie des Procédés” team of the ENSCR–CNRS UMR 6226, his research targets physico-chemical and biological treatment processes, with emphasis on fermentation, biodegradation and bioengineering for gaseous and aqueous pollutant control. He has led or co-led numerous national (ANR, ADEME, Brittany Region, CNRS) and international projects (EU LIFE Environment, CIFRE, and bilateral collaborations with 13 countries), and has directed or co-directed 29 PhD theses. With 6,021 Google Scholar citations and an h-index of 40 (Web of Science: 3,584 citations, h = 31), he is a prolific author whose work spans advanced adsorbents (biochar, activated carbon), membrane and electrocoagulation processes, antibiotic and dye removal, and green catalysis.

Dr. Awasthi has received various prestigious awards and grants, including a UCOST-funded project titled "Water quality assessment of river Yamuna, Uttarakhand, and its exposure assessment with respect to water-borne diseases among the nearby community of river". He was honoured with the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 10th Conference on Environmental Protection and Nanotechnology-2013, NCTU, Taiwan, and also received a consolation prize at the International Conference on Environmental Health and Technology-2010, IIT Kanpur. He is a lifetime member of the Indian Physics Association (IPS) and has served as a guest editor for the international SCI journal "Frontier in Environmental Sciences" (IF: 5.1) in the 2023 edition.

Professor AbuBakr S Bahaj, (FREng, FICE, FIET, FRSA, MInstP, CPhys) leads the Energy & Climate Change Division and the Sustainable Energy Research Group (ECCD)at the University of Southampton.

Professor Bahaj’s work has resulted in over 350 articles, published in academic refereed journals and conference series of international standing. In 2013, he founded the International Journal of Marine Energy (IJOME) followed in 2018 by the International Marine Energy Journal (IMEJ) for which he was/is the Editor-in-Chief.

Prof. Rangan Banerjee is currently the Director, IIT Delhi.
Prof. Rangan Banerjee currently serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Sustainable Energy, International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, International Journal of Thermodynamics, Solar Energy Advances, Global Transitions (Energy Transitions).

MB is an associate professor in Applied Physics at the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara (UNIFE). As leader of the Laboratory to Advance in Ground heat exchange (LAG), he coordinates a team focused on numerical modelling and experimental analysis of heat and mass transfer phenomena. He took part to 6 European projects, two of which as leader of the UNIFE partnership (H2020, LIFE+), and 2 regional projects (EFDR), one of which as coordinator

Laura Bulgariu is a Full Professor (habil.) of Environmental and Analytical Chemistry at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași, Romania. After earning degrees in chemical physics (1996) and molecular dynamics (1999) from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, she obtained her PhD in 2006 on solvent extraction of toxic metal ions and her habilitation in 2013 on green methods for heavy-metal removal from water. She advanced from preparator (2000–2002) to lecturer (2014–present) in the Department of Environmental Engineering & Management, where she teaches analytical chemistry, quality control, and life-cycle assessment at both undergraduate and master’s levels. Bulgariu has authored 167 scientific publications, including 51 ISI-indexed papers (33 as first author), 67 BDI-indexed articles, and 18 book chapters, accumulating 241 citations and an h-index of 9. She has directed nine research contracts out of 18 total grants, received 15 national and international awards, and actively serves on the editorial boards of two BDI journals while reviewing for 43 ISI journals.

Dr. Salvatore Carlucci is an Adjunct Professor at the Energy, Environment, and Water Research Center of The Cyprus Institute. He is the Head of the Sustainable Built Environment Group. 
Currently, he is the subtask leader of IEA-EBC Annex 79 on “Occupant-centric building design and operation” and is a fellow of the International Building Performance Simulation Association.
He is an associate editor for the peer-reviewed scientific journal “Frontiers in Built Environment” and a member of the editorial board of the peer-reviewed scientific journals (Elsevier's Energy and Buildings, Springer-Nature’s Energy Efficiency, MDPI’s Energies). Dr. Carlucci serves as an expert evaluator for several research foundations and international universities and a reviewer for numerous international journals.

Professor of Environmental and Climate Physics and Director of the Laboratory of Environmental Physics-Meteorology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece). 
Constantinos Cartalis has served as Chairman of the Environment Committee of the Parliament of Greece and as a member of the Mission Assembly of the European Commission for Climate Neutral Cities. He has also served as a member of the Executive Bureau of the Subsidiary Body of UNFCCC for the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

Professor Wei-Hsin Chen received his B.S. degree from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Tunghai University, Taiwan, in 1988 and a Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University. After receiving his Ph.D. degree, Dr. Chen worked in an iron and steel corporation as a process engineer. He joined the Department of Environmental Engineering and Science, Fooyin University in 1995 and was promoted to a full professor in 2001. In 2005, he moved to the Department of Marine Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University. Two years later (2007), he moved to the Department of Greenergy, National University of Tainan. Now he is a Faculty Member at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University. Professor Chen visited the Princeton University, USA, the University of New South Wales, Australia, the University of Edinburg, UK, and the University of British Columbia, Canada, as a Visiting Professor.

Professor Yulong Ding is the founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and director of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage. His current research covers both fundamental (multiphase transport phenomena across length scales) and applied (new energy conversion and storage technologies) aspects.

He invented liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of its developments and validation, which is commercialised by Highview Power, a UK engineering company. He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacture technologies, leading to large scale commercial applications with a total installation of >300MW / >1.2GWh so far. His work on passively cooled container technology has been on large scale commercial demonstration for cold chain transportation applications.

Since 2019 and up until the present day, I have been diligently serving as a Full Professor and researcher within the esteemed Technical Colleges system under the Mexican Federal  Ministry of Education.

Francesco is an Associate Professor in High Performance Architecture at the Faculty of Built Environment of the University of New South Wales. Prior to joining UNSW BE he held appointments at The University of Sydney, in the Architectural Science discipline, and at Politecnico di Bari (Italy), in the Architectural Engineering program. 
Francesco is currently the Australian representative in the European COST Action on “Adaptive Facades Network” and has been involved as Chief Investigator in several research projects in Australia and overseas. He is currently CI of the ARC-funded Training Centre for Advanced Manufacturing of Prefabricated Housing.

François Gagné has been a senior biochemical toxicologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada since 1994. He received his academic training in biochemistry and toxicology and earned his PhD (1996) in Environmental Toxicology at the University of Metz in France. He has published more than 250 papers (Scopus h index 46) in the area of biochemical ecotoxicology in international scientific journals and book chapters and has recently produced a book of methods in biochemical ecotoxicology (Elsevier Inc). He is an Associate Professor at the Marine Science Institute at the University of Québec at Rimouski. His research interests reside in the area of toxicity of substances of emerging interest and the development of new approaches for the risk assessment of new and exotic chemicals in the context of global warming. The use of nonlinear approaches to study the oscillatory and fractal behaviors of molecular changes in cells exposed to ultrafine plastic nanoparticles or other space-altering xenobiotics is currently of interest.

lecturer of Changsha University of Science and Technology

Guest Editor for Water, Youth Editorial Board Member for Eco-Environment & Health

 Professor, Chief Researcher in North-Caucasian State Technological University, Vladikavkaz, Russia

World’s Top 2% Scientists 2021-2024
Early Career Advisory Board to Environmental Research 

Scientific Committee of International Congress on Engineering (ICEUBI2022)

Topics Editorial Board to Water

 He is affiliated with the Agricultural Sciences department at Texas State University, USA. He has expertise in Econometric Analysis and Policy-oriented research. Md He has over 90 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, including Applied Energy, Technology in Society, Sustainable Development, Energy and Buildings, Resource Policy, Renewable Energy, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Aquaculture, and Aquaculture Economics and Management.

Prof. Ji has presided the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars and three other projects funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China, several projects supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, etc. Prof. Ji has totally published more than 140 SCI papers being as the first or corresponding author in international journals, such as Combustion and Flame, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Fire Safety Journal, Fire Technology, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Energy, Fuel, etc., and authored three books. Prof. Ji has presented 16 invited lectures in international and domestic meetings conferences, such as the 59th Symposium (Japanese) on Combustion, 11th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology, 4th Workshop and Symposium on Safety and Integrity Management of Operations in Harsh Environments, 9th International Conference on Fire Science and Fire Protection Engineering, etc. Research findings were implemented in fire protection standards at home and abroad, and in several major construction projects in China.

Dr. Nadeem A Khan working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Mewat Engineering College, India (on leave). He also worked as a Head of Department (HoD) from 2014 to 2017. Currently, he is working as Post Doc Fellow in KFUPM, Saudi Arabia (QS-ranking-106). He completed his Ph.D. from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, in 2022. He also acted as Co-project coordinator from 2018 to 2022 ( 05 Crore Rupees approx.) under the Govt. of India Project, WAMSI, mapping of Waqf Properties of Haryana district, India. Currently, he is working with India's Top Scientist of IISC, Banglore (Dr. Parveen), on different projects related to wastewater and its treatment. Has received his M.Tech. (Civil Engineering) in 2011 with Honors in Environmental Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, India. He acted as an Editorial board member of Nature journal- Scientific Reports and worked for the Springer journal special issue of Discover water and the Hindawi Journal special issue (IF= 4.9). His recent accomplishments included 15 Coursera course completion certificates. He was awarded the Best Young Scientist Award (Male) by LWT India and GECL for his Scientific contribution to Environmental Engineering. Dr. Khan was associated with the Ministry of Environment and Forest (India) for two years as Junior Research Fellow (J.R.F) in 2009-11 and also worked with UNICEF as a Research Assistant (R.A) on the topic of GIS mapping and Water quality parameter estimation, 2012. He has attended several conferences, workshops, seminars, and research and engaged in research projects. He has published 04 Books with International Publishers, 80 papers in SCI ( H-Index=25 and Total Citations=2000+) , and 05 Internation Editorial experiences in his account. He has also published more than 10 PATENTS in Civil Engineering and water treatment. He is also active in social welfare activities.

Ali Kilicarslan graduated from the Middle East Technical University’s Gaziantep Campus in 1989 with a Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He received an Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1994 and a PhD of Mechanical Engineering in 2000 from Istanbul Technical University. He is the Editor in Chief of Hittite Journal of Science and Engineering He is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hitit University, Corum, Turkey, teaching Advanced Thermodynamics, Energy and Exergy Analysis of Thermal Systems, Thermodynamics, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. 

Klyuev Roman Vladimirovich is a qualified and responsible research and teaching employee of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education " North Caucasus Mining and Metallurgical Institute (State Technological University)" (FGBOU VO "NCIMM (STU)") in the field of training highly qualified personnel in the enlarged group of specialties 13.00.00 "Electro - and thermal energy".
In 2003, he received the academic title of Associate Professor in the Department of "Power Supply of Industrial Enterprises". In the period from 2006 to 2011, he served as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (EME), Secretary of the Academic Council of EME, Secretary of the Admissions Committee of NCIMM (STU), representative of EME in the trade union organization of SKSMI (GTU). In 2011, he was elected to the position of Head of the Department "Power Supply of Industrial Enterprises", which he holds until now. From 2013 to 2014, he served as the Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation of the NCIMM (STU). Since March 2014 He serves as the Deputy editor-in-Chief responsible for the issue of the journal "Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories".

Full professor at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) since 2021

been invited as an honorary Editorial Board member for more than 50 international academic journals

World's Top 2% Scientist

Katarzyna Kubiak-Wójcicka is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hydrology and Water Management, Faculty of Earth Sciences and Spatial Management, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (Poland). She obtained a PhD in Earth Sciences in the field of geography in 2006 at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Dr. Kubiak-Wójcicka’s research interests focus on the following issues: hydrological droughts, floods, water resource management, hydropower plants, water law, and water quality in river and reservoirs.

Chairman of IAUSE (International Association of Underground Space Environment);
FellowMember of ISBE TheInternationalSocietyoftheBuiltEnvironment);
Editorial board member of Int.J.IndoorBuiltandEnvironment;

Research Directions

1. Fracturing Development of Unconventional Shale Reservoirs

2. Supercritical CO2 Fracturing Technology and Enhanced Oil Recovery

3. Deep Gas Hydrate Extraction and Wellbore Stability

4. Deep Geothermal Energy Extraction

Dr. Li Qingchao, graduated from China University of Petroleum (East China) in June, 2020. He is majoring in Development of gas hydrate offshore and some other aspects related to it. Now, he is working as a lecture in Henan Polytechinic University.

Dr. Li Xiuhong, doctoral supervisor, holds a PhD from Wuhan University, is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Remote Sensing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and is currently an associate professor at the Institute of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University. She has published over 30 papers and holds 13 patents (including three authorized invention patents), winning a silver medal at an international invention conference. She has long been engaged in research and application development in wireless sensor networks, focusing on integrated air-space-ground monitoring networks, global change monitoring and assessment, and ecological and environmental monitoring and assessment. Over the past six years, she has led or been a principal investigator in numerous research projects, including those funded by the Water Special Project, the "863" Program, scientific and technological support programs, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Through her leadership and participation in various scientific research and technological development projects, she has established a solid foundation and developed distinctive expertise in the fields of integrated air-space-ground monitoring platforms and ecological and environmental monitoring and assessment.

Prof. Pei mainly engaged in research in the fields of sky radiation cooling, new thermal cycles, solar high-temperature thermal power generation, solar thermal/photovoltaic comprehensive utilization, air conditioning and refrigeration, etc.

Dr. Yang is a Doctor of Engineering, currently serving as a Distinguished Associate Research Fellow and Doctoral Supervisor in the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Beijing Normal University.

Professor in School of Environment, Nanjing University

2020 China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Award

2015 National Tech-Invention Award (State Council of China)

2013 Sci-Tech Award of the State Education Commission (Ministry of Education, China)

2005 Sci-Tech Award of Chinese Petroleum & Chemical Industry Association

2000 Sci-Tech Award of the State Education Commission (Ministry of Education, China)

Prof. Lizhi Zhang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at South China University of Technology. He is also a recipient of the National Outstanding Young Scientists Fund and the director of the Key Laboratory of Heat Transfer and Energy Conservation of the Ministry of Education at South China University of Technology. His research focuses on heat transfer and energy conservation.

Prof. Zhao Tianshou, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is an expert in thermophysics in energy science and engineering. He graduated from the Department of Thermophysics Engineering at Tianjin University in 1983, received his master's degree there in 1986, and his doctorate from the University of Hawaii in 1995. He is currently a Chair Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He has received the Croucher Senior Research Achievement Award, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award, the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology's Outstanding Research Achievement Award in Engineering. He has been named to the Clarivate/Thomson Reuters list of Highly Cited Researchers and Most Influential Scientific Ideas. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and on the Advisory Editorial Board of Energy & Environmental Science.

Prof. Zhao has long been dedicated to the research of heat and mass transfer theory and battery energy storage technology. In response to the country's significant demand for renewable energy utilization, focusing on the key scientific issues of energy transfer and conversion in fluid battery energy storage devices such as fuel cells, flow batteries, and metal-air batteries, a coupling theory of heat and mass transfer and electrochemical energy conversion in battery energy storage systems has been established. A method for the coordinated transmission of heat, mass, electrons, and ions has been proposed, achieving a breakthrough in the key technologies of high-power fluid battery design. A new method for storing electricity using rechargeable and dischargeable liquid energy carriers has been proposed, and a new energy storage system with independent charging and discharging devices has been invented. This has achieved a simultaneous leap in system efficiency and output power, which will play an important role in solving the difficulties of wind and solar power grid integration, achieving large-scale utilization of renewable energy, and addressing air pollution and climate change.

Shuai Zhou is an associate professor in the School of Civil Engineering at University of South China. He has been honored with the title of “Youth Backbone Teacher” in Hunan Province and recognized as a high-level talent in Hengyang City, China. He obtained Ph.D. degree from Tongji University, where he was mentored by Professor Yayi Wang. His research interest focuses on the treatment theories and technologies for emerging and radioactive pollutants within the field of municipal engineering. He has published over 30 SCI papers in excellent environmental and water treatment journals such as Water Research and Journal of Hazardous Materials, which have collectively received over 1,400 citations (as of September 2025). He is a youth committee member of the Water Supply and Drainage Professional Committee of the Hunan Provincial Civil Engineering. He serves as an editorial board member for the journal “Asian Journal of Water, Environment and Pollution,” and as a young editorial board member for the Chinese journals “Industrial Water Treatment” and “Water Purification Technology”.

Dr. Maiyong Zhu is an Associate Professor at Jiangsu University, China. He got his Doctor's degree in the College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China. 

His Research Interests:

· Electrochemical Supercapacitors
· Conducting Polymer
· Magnetic Nanocomposite
· Environmental treatment

Built Environment and HVAC Engineering, Low Energy / Sustainable Buildings, Human thermal comfort.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Aug. 1989

B.Eng., Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Aug.1984

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY)

Sept. 1990—Dec.1993, Assistant Professor, Department of Thermal Engineering

July 1992—Oct. 1993, Fellow of Japan Society for the Promoting of Science (JSPS), Dept. of Architecture, Nagoya University, Japan

Dec. 1993—Aug. 1998, Associate Professor, Department of Thermal Engineering

Nov. 1997—Sept. 2000, Deputy Dean of Department of Thermal Engineering

Aug. 1998—Sept. 2000, Professor, Department of Thermal Engineering

Sept. 2000—Now, Professor of School of Architecture

July 2002—Dec.2002, Guest Professor, Integrated Research Center of Science and Technology, Nagoya University, Japan

Dec. 2005—Sept. 2008, Director of Institute of Built Environment and Energy Engineering (HVAC)

Sept. 2008—June 2018, Head of Dept. of Building Science

Sept. 2008—June 2020, Vice Dean of School of Architecture

March 2009—Now, Vice Director of Key Lab of Ministry of Education on Eco-Urban Planning and Green Building Research

March 2005—Now, Vice Director of Building Energy Research Center, Ministry of Education

Dr. Dongdong Ge is currently an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at Jiangsu University of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2020 and pursued postdoctoral research at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2022. Dr. Ge has led over 10 funded research projects, including those supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and various enterprise-sponsored initiatives. He has published more than 50 SCI-indexed papers in internationally renowned journals, five of which have been recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%). In 2023, he received the First Prize of the Shanghai Technological Invention Award.

Dr. Zhang Hemeng is an associate professor, master's supervisor, and deputy director of the Department of Emergency Technology and Management in the School of Safety Science and Engineering.

Education: PhD from Liaoning University of Engineering and Technology (Mining Engineering) in 2021; PhD from Kyushu University (Earth Resources Engineering) in 2020.

Research interests: Mine thermal disasters and prevention, CCUS, numerical simulation, and machine learning.

Dr. Liu Jun, lecturer, master's supervisor, PhD in Engineering, visiting scholar at Texas Tech University and the University of Nottingham, UK, serves as a science and technology expert for the China Construction Enterprise Management Association and a member of the Fluid Mechanics Committee of the Sichuan Society of Mechanics. He has presided over and participated in over 20 vertical and horizontal research projects, published over 20 papers (13 indexed by SCI), and has been granted over 10 patents and software copyrights. He was awarded the Second Prize for Engineering Construction Science and Technology Progress by the China Construction Enterprise Management Association in 2023, the Outstanding Award for Innovation in Industry-University-Research Cooperation in 2022, and the Second Prize in the Third Bridge Engineering Teachers' Teaching Innovation Competition in 2024.

Dr. Yang Dejun holds a PhD and is currently an associate professor and master's supervisor at the School of Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology. He received his bachelor's degree in water supply and drainage engineering from Hefei University of Technology in June 2004 and his doctorate in civil engineering from Zhejiang University in June 2009. From September 2007 to September 2008, he studied as a joint doctoral student at the University of Warwick (WHRI), UK.

He currently oversees projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Postdoctoral Natural Science Foundation, and the Central Universities Fund for Basic Research. He has also participated in numerous National Natural Science Foundation projects, published over 10 academic papers, including 8 indexed by SCI/EI, and one monograph. His teaching and research focus on environmental engineering, municipal engineering, soil hydrodynamics, and pollutant transport. He has been awarded honorary titles such as "Outstanding Class Teacher" and "Outstanding Instructor of Undergraduate Graduation Project (Thesis)" at China University of Mining and Technology.