Global Affiliates

TIAN Fuqiang

Dr. Fuqiang Tian is Affiliate Member of our Academy. He got his bachelor, master and PhD degrees from Tsinghua University. He visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America as a postdoc research associate from 2007-2008.

 

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Dr. Tian’s research focuses on transboundary water resources management and hydrologic forecasting under changing environment. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed SCI journal papers in addition to another 80 journal papers in Chinese.

 

Specifically, he has carried out influential studies on Lancang-Mekong River and Yarlung Tsangpo – Brahmaputra River. He has analyzed geopolitical dimensions of the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses and advocates reciprocity for transboundary water resources management on journal articles and media papers.

 

He has received an award from the Ministry of Water Resources for scientific and technological achievement as first prize for his work on agricultural water management in arid area in 2016. He has also received an award from Ministry of Education for scientific and technological achievement as first prize for his work on water resources assessment and management in cold and arid areas in 2017. International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage has presented him a WATSAVE Award (Technology) in 2019 for designing an optimal mulched drip irrigation schedule to control soi-water and regulate salt. National Natural Science Foundation of China has named him as distinguished young scientist in 2018.