Email: zhaojianshi@tsinghua.edu.cn

Research Areas: Evolutionary mechanisms and dynamics of human-water coupled systems in river basins, Theoretical and methodological approaches to risk-hedging operation and scheduling of water resources, Integrated watershed governance under changing environmental conditions

Zhao Jianshi received his B.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Hydraulic Engineering at Tsinghua University in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He is currently a Tenured Professor in the Department of Hydraulic Engineering and serves as Vice Dean of the School of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University. His previous roles include Director of the Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources and Special Research Fellow (Tenured Associate Professor) in the same department. He has also been Deputy Director of the Transboundary Rivers Water and Ecological Security Research Center since 2010 and was a visiting scholar and postdoctoral research assistant at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2009 to 2010. His teaching includes courses such as Modern Water Resources Planning, Global Change and China’s Water Resources, and Hydrology and Water Resources Management.