About

Dr. Xiaodong Qu is a professor at the China institute of water resources and hydropower research (IWHR). He is a native of China and received his PhD at the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Science (2001-2006). As a postdoc, Dr. Xiaodong Qu worked on the species distribution pattern and the neutral theory of aquatic biodiversity at Pusan National University and Kyunghee University of the Republic of Korea. Since 2013, he was employed by the IWHR, and ever since the focus of his work was on environmental flow and ecosystem restoration of streams and rivers by using multiple Interdisciplinary research including hydrobiology, hydraulics, and watershed ecology. Dr. Xiaodong Qu began to provide a range of support services as a co-opted member of Ecohydraulics Technical Committee from 2016 to 2020. He organized the 2nd JoE Webinar on Environmental flows and Water-Food-Energy-Ecology Nexus as Chair and assisted to organize the forum on ecological flow and ecological hydraulic engineering in Beijing. He also served as a member of the review board of the Journal of Ecohydraulics since 2016. Since 2014, he served as an executive member of the benthological Society of Asia.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Research Institutes and Centers

Expertise Fields/Interests:

on environmental flow and ecosystem restoration of streams and rivers by using multiple Interdisciplinary research including hydrobiology, hydraulics, and watershed ecology.

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