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 Large Scale Hydrology Lab 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!

Latest News

• 📄 Our preprint on the PML-V2 dataset is now available. You can read the data description paper currently under review at Earth System Science Data.

  

• 🎉 The schedule for our session on drought responses at EGU26 is now confirmed! We warmly invite colleagues and researchers to join our PICO session and discuss 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 & Time: Wednesday, 6 May 2026, 08:30–12:30 (CEST)
  • 📍 Format & Venue: PICO spot A, Vienna, Austria

  

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