Overview

Dr. Qiang Dai is the Professor of Hydroinformatics at the Nanjing Normal University. He has broad interests in hydrology, radar remote sensing, natural hazards modelling, city risk management and sustainability. He is motivated by challenging questions at the intersection of these fields, especially where they have relevance to human and societal outcomes or to the advancement of science towards innovative application.

Dr. Qiang Dai has leaded and participated more than 10 national and international scientific research projects. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers in journals that focus on hydrology, meteorology, remote sensing and natural hazard science. He is current the associate editor of Water Resources Research (WRR), Journal of Hydrology (JH), Hydrological Processes (HP), and the guest editor of Remote Sensing.

Research Interests

• Rainfall estimation and prediction based on radar remote sensing
• Hydrological-geotechnical modelling for landslide prediction
• Compounding flood simulation in city regions
• Human–hazard coupled city model for risk assessment of rainfall-triggered multi-hazards

Education

• 2011.10-2015.02，University of Bristol，Department of Civil Engineering，PhD
• 2009.09-2011.06，Sun Yat-Sen University，Department of Remote sensing and GIS，Msc
• 2005.09-2009.06，Nanjing Normal University，Department of GIS，Bsc

Experience

• 2020.07- ，Professor，School of Geography，Nanjing Normal University
• 2015.08-2020.07，Associate Professor，School of Geography，Nanjing Normal University
• 2015.05-2015.07，Assistant Professor，School of Geography，Nanjing Normal University
• 2011.10-2014.11，Teaching Assistant，Faulty of Engineering，University of Bristol

Membership

• Associate Editor, Water Resources Research (WRR)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology (JH)
• Editor, Special Issue of Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing for Streamflow Simulation
• Associate Editor, Hydrological Processes (HP)
• Member of Advisory Committee of International Association of Weather Radar and Hydrology (WRaH)
• Member of Committee of China Virtual Geographic Environment Association
• Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
• Member of European Geosciences Union (EGU)
• Member of Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
• Member of International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
• Member of International Association of Hydraulic Research (IAHR)

Research

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 41871299, Study on calculation method for dynamic vulnerability of storm-induced hazard chain in city-region, 2019/01-2022/12, ￥580,000.
• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 41631175, Research on Data Modelling and Data Organization Approaches for Geographic Scenes Based on Geographic Cognition, 2017/01-2021/12, ￥2,900,000.
• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 41501429, Study on an automatic urban surface spatial discretization method for urban hydrological simulation, 2016/01-2018/12, ￥230,000.
• Newton Fund via Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), NE/N012143/1, Resilient Economy and Society by Integrated SysTems modelling (RESIST), 2016/01-2020/01, £ 487,437.
• Jiangsu Science and Technology Agency, BE2015704, Study on monitoring and warning of urban geology and urban flood, 2015/07-2018/06, ￥1,000,000.
• University Natural Science Project of Jiangsu Province, 16KJA170001, Urban flood simulation and prediction based on automatic urban surface spatial discretization, 2016/09-2019/08, ￥150,000.
• European Commission, Sharing Water-related Information to Tackle Changes in the Hydrosphere - for Operational Needs, SWITCH-ON, 2013-2016, €6,000,000.
• UK Engineering And Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Urban flood modeling using probabilistic radar rainfall ensembles, 2011-2012, £ 120,000.

Awards

• 2019 Scientific and Technological Advancement Award in Jiangsu Geodesy Photogrammetry and Cartography (Ranking 1st)
• 2019 Distinguished Young Scholar in Jiangsu Geodesy Photogrammetry and Cartography
• 2016 Distinguished Young Geographer in Jiangsu Province of China
• 2015 Bristol University Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis
• Member of Advisory Committee of International Association of Weather Radar and Hydrology (WRaH)