I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2020 to 2024, I completed my Ph.D. at the UCAS under the supervision of Prof. Yongqiang Zhang (张永强), during which I also spent part of my training at TU Wien with Prof. Günter Blöschl. I currently work in Prof. Zhang’s Global Water Resources Team and collaborate with international researchers on diverse hydrological topics, with a global perspective.

My research focuses on Hydrology & Water Resource Resilience. In particular, I study how hydrological systems sustain resilience under disturbances and avoid irreversible regime shifts, especially those triggered by droughts and wildfires. I integrate satellite observations, field measurements, and distributed ecohydrological modeling to investigate mechanisms of water balance change, hydrological responses, and vegetation–hydrology feedbacks.

I also work on data and methodological development, including the development, updating, and application of PML-V2, a diagnostic global evapotranspiration model. In earlier studies, I developed parallel algorithms for distributed hydrological models and evaluated model uncertainty under different flow routing schemes.

I welcome collaborations and discussions on any hydrology-related topics!

Lastest News

Our session on drought responses has been accepted for EGU26 in Vienna! 🎉
We warmly invite abstract submissions from researchers working on ecohydrology and drought impacts in a changing environment.

📘 Session: HS10.5 — Ecohydrological responses to droughts in a changing environment

👥 Conveners: Zhenwu Xu, Shuping Li, Wantong Li, Yongqiang Zhang, Diego G. Miralles

📅 Date & Venue: 3-8 May 2026, Vienna, Austria

📢 Submit your abstract here: EGU26 Session Link

Research Interests

• 💧🌲 Hydrological responses to disturbances — droughts, wildfires, deforestation, land-use change, human intervention

• 🌱♻️ Long-term trends and resilience — ecohydrological systems under recurring stress from disturbances

• 🖥️💦 Process-based modeling for evapotranspiration, streamflow, and vegetation–water interactions

• 🛰️🌍 Satellite–field integration for hydrological monitoring