About Guangqian Wang’s work
From May to November 1996, Guangqian Wang held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong. At the time, Wang was based at Tsinghua University.
Biography
Wang Guangqian graduated from Wuhan Institute of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in 1982 with a major in River Control Engineering, and later received a Ph.D. in Hydraulic Engineering from Tsinghua University, and a Postdoctoral fellow from the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1992, he taught in the Department of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering, Tsinghua University. In 2009, he was elected as an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He became the President of Qinghai University 2013 and later appointed Vice President of Tsinghua University in 2021. Wang is currently Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Executive Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic League, and Vice President of Tsinghua University. Wang's research field is sediment discipline and river control. He has carried out research on the basic theory of water-sediment two-phase flow, water-sediment process simulation and engineering application in the basin, and his research results have played a role in solving the sediment problem of the Yellow River and the Three Gorges Project of the Yangtze River.