**About the Editors**

## **Weili Duan**

Weili Duan is a Professor in water resources and climate change at the State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Weili pursued a PhD degree at the Department of Civil and Earth Resources Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan, in September 2014. His research interests are water for sustainable development, climate change and water-related disasters management. He has obtained about 10 research projects including 2 Talent projects and 3 NSFC projects and published more than 70 papers and 1 monograph.

#### **Shreedhar Maskey**

Shreedhar Maskey, PhD, is currently an Associate Professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands. He holds a BSc degree in civil engineering and MSc in hydroinformatics, and has obtained a PhD degree from Delft University of Technology. He has more than 25 years of experience ranging from post-graduate and graduate level teaching, research supervision, international projects on floods and droughts modelling and forecasting, climate change impacts, and water resources assessment. His hydrological modelling experience includes many major river basins, such as the Yellow River, Red River, Mekong, Irrawaddy, Ganges basins (Koshi, Bagmati, Narayani and West Rapti), Upper Indus, Karkheh, Aral Sea basins (Amu Darya and Syr Darya), Loire, Blue Nile, Limpopo, Niger, St. Paul River, and several other river catchments in Africa, Asia and Europe. He has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters and over 35 conference papers. He is also an associate editor of the Journal of Hydrology, and has served as associate editor of the Journal of Flood Risk Management.

#### **Pedro Luiz Borges Chaffe**

Pedro Luiz Borges Chaffe is an Associate Professor in Hydrology and Water Resource at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. He obtained his Bachelor (2007) and Masters (2009) in Environmental Engineering at UFSC, and PhD degree at Kyoto University (2012). Currently, he is the Supervisor of the Hydrology Lab at UFSC, hoping to understand the climatic and physiographic controls of streamflow from small to large catchments in Brazil.

#### **Pingping Luo**

Pingping Luo is a full professor in School of Water and Environment, Chang'an University. He graduated from Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University in 2012. He was a postdoc researcher in DPRI, Kyoto University and IAS, Unitied Nations University from 2012 to 2016. Prof. Luo was appointed as full professor in Chang'an University in 2016. He has published more than 60 papers and 5 book chapters. His major is focused on Hydrological modelling, Flood disaster, Water resource management and Environmental Engineering.

#### **Bin He**

Prof. Bin He is working in the Institute of Eco-environmental and Soil Sciences, Guangdong Academy of Sciences,China. He has more than 20 years experience in hydrological engineering and water pollution control. He holds the Ph.D. of "Hydrology for Environmental Engineering" from Ehime University in Japan, and then obtained the Research Fellow Award from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). After that, he worked as an Assistant Professor in the University of Tokyo (Japan), an Associate Professor in Kyoto University (Japan), and a Professor in Chinese Academy of Sciences. His main interests include GIS-based hydrological modeling for nonpoint source pollution (NPS), developing engineering techniques for water pollution control. He has published more than 100 papers in journals, 3 books and 30 patents in environmental engineering. He is the leader of more 30 domestic and international projects, an Associate Editor-in-Chief of Journal "Geoenvironmental Disasters", and an Editor of the journals "Landslides", "Hydrological Research Letter".

#### **Yiping Wu**

Dr. Yiping Wu is a professor in the Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University and engaged in watershed eco-hydrological study. He received his B.E. degree from Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology and Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong, and served as a senior scientist at ASRC Federal, USGS EROS. He gained the talent plans of the National Youth Talent Program and Shaanxi Talent Program. He also serves the Education Instruction Committee of Nature Conservation and Environmental Ecology as a member, Agricultural and Forestry Branch of Education Instruction Committee of Shaanxi Province as deputy director, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) as a Secretary in Hydrological Section, and of China Ecological Society as a committee member in Eco-hydrological Section. He acts as an associate editor or editorial board member in the international renowned SCI journals including Engineering, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, Carbon Balance and Management, and Geoscience Letters.

#### **Jingming Hou**

Prof. Jingming Hou serves as the Executive Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory of Eco-hydraulics in Northwest Arid Region of China, Xi'an University of Technology. He graduated from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and won the Tiburtius Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. In 2016, he worked in Xi'an University of Technology and was selected into the Shaanxi Hundred Talents Program, and selected into the national talent plan in 2018. In 2020, he was elected as the vice chairman of the Urban Water Conservancy Special Committee of the Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society. His research areas cover the fields in theoretical development and practical application of mathematical and numerical models of surface water flows and associated transport processes, Urban and catchment flood management, High resolution numerical modeling of coupled hydrodynamic and pollutant transport processes and application of deep learning techniques in urban flood inundation rapid forecasting.
