Prof. Dr.-Ing. Zhang got his Ph.D. degree with great honor at the Institute of Urban and Industrial Water Management, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. He is working on multi-aspect of the Urban Water Management. His research interests are integrated urban water management with focus on rain-runoff process, modelling of transport and conversion processes in surface waters, environmental behavior of priority micropollutants in urban waters, forecasting the urban flooding induced by the extreme events, chronic and acute impacts of combined sewer overflow on surface water, and potential interaction between stormwater, sewer, and groundwater. He serves as an Editorial Board Member on the Elsevier partner journal of Sustainable Horizons, an early career editorial board member of a Cell Press partner journal of The Innovation, a gold open access journal ofResults in Engineering, etc.

May 2025 – Present: South China Normal University, School of GeographyGuangzhou, China
March 2022 – April 2025: Hohai UniversityYangtze Institute for Conservation and Development / State Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention
February 2018 – February 2022: Jinan UniversityInstitute of Groundwater and Earth Sciences / College of Life Science and Technology
October 2010 – May 2018: Technische Universität DresdenInstitute of Urban and Industrial Water Management

Hydroinformatics for Water Supply Engineering

• Core member of the "333" Project Leading Talent Team
• Core member of the "Xijiang" Innovation Talent Team
• Final list competition of the National Top-Notch Young Talent Project of the“Ten Thousand People Plan”

1. Artificial intelligence for geoscience: Progress, challenges, and perspectives, The Innovation, IF=33.2, 2024
2. Deicing salt exacerbates freshwater salinization under climate change and human activities, The Innovation, IF=33.2, 2024
3. Integrated risk analysis for urban flooding under changing climates, Results in Engineering, IF=7.9, 2024, indexed and included by SDG COP30
4. Global framework for flood risk management under climate change and urbanization, The Innovation Geoscience, 2023
5. Global trade drives transboundary transfer of the health impacts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emissions, Communications Earth & Environment, IF=8.9, 2022
6. Exacerbated anthropogenic water pollution under climate change and urbanization, Water Research, IF=12.4, 2025
7. Elucidating and forecasting the organochlorine pesticides in suspended particulate matter by a two-stage decomposition based interpretable deep learning approach, Water Research, IF=12.4, 2024
8. Effect of anthropogenic activities on the occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in aquatic suspended particulate matter: Evidence from Rhine and Elbe Rivers, Water Research, IF=12.4, 2020
9. Climate change and population aging exacerbate flood risk to the elderly in European regions, Earth's Future, IF=8.2, 2025
10. Increasing Health Burdens Driven by Global Trade Induced Air Pollution, Earth's Future, IF=8.2, 2025
11. Consumption-and income-based sectoral emissions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in China from 2002 to 2017, Environmental Science & Technology, IF=11.3, 2021
12. Investigating flood exposure induced socioeconomic risk and mitigation strategy under climate change and urbanization at a city scale, Journal of Cleaner Production, IF=11.1, 2023
13. Assessing the performance of gray and green strategies for sustainable urban drainage system development: A multi-criteria decision-making analysis, Journal of Cleaner Production, IF=11.1, 2021
14. Evaluating the effect of urban flooding reduction strategies in response to design rainfall and low impact development, Journal of Cleaner Production, IF=11.1, 2020
15. Microbial diversity and function in response to occurrence and source apportionment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in combined sewer overflows, Journal of Cleaner Production, IF=11.1, 2021
16. Low impact development practices mitigate urban flooding and non-point pollution under climate change, Journal of Cleaner Production, IF=11.1, 2022
17. Characterizing and predicting the impact of vehicular emissions on the transport and fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in environmental multimedia, Journal of Cleaner Production, IF=11.1, 2020
18. A sixteen-year reduction in the concentrations of aquatic PAHs corresponding to source shifts in the Elbe River, Germany, Journal of Cleaner Production, IF=11.1, 2019
19. Impact of antecedent dry-weather period and rainfall magnitude on the performance of low impact development practices in urban flooding and non-point pollution mitigation, Journal of Cleaner Production, IF=11.1, 2021
20. Trade drives leakage of life-cycle carbon dioxide emissions from plastics in China over 2010–2021, Journal of Cleaner Production, IF=11.1, 2023

• 2024年：Elsevier RINENG Young Investigator Award