Dr. rer. nat. Yan Zhu

In the year 2011, Yan Zhu has been Research Associate of the Working Group for Physical Geography at the Institute of Geography of the Heidelberg University.

Research interests

• Integrated Water Resources Management
• Water History & Water Culture
• China-related Water, Environment and Energy Issues
• Groundwater Resource Utilization & Protection
• Urban Environment and Hydrogeology: Air-Soil-Water, Land Subsidence Caused by Groundwater Over-exploration
• Environmental & Climate Change Influences to Groundwater
• Water and Sustainable Development: Water Availability and Quality in Different Scales; Artificial Groundwater Recharge; Water Purification by Natural Attenuation
• Hydro-ecology and Water Security in Arid and Semi-arid Areas
• Geothermal Energy Resource Utilization & Conservation
• Water and Health: Mineral Water, Geo-environmental Monitoring, Assessment & Remediation

Research projects

RECAST Urumqi: Resource efficiency as a key to sustainable mega-city development in dry areas.
Project 1: Development of sustainable mega-city through efficient management of water resources in a semi-arid environment.

Memberships

• FH-DGG: Technical Section on Hydrogeology of the German Society of Geosciences
• IHAS: International Association of Hydrological Sciences
• IWA: International Water Association

Academic career

• since 05.2011: Research Associate in Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg.
• 11.2010 - 04.2011: Scientific coordinator in Institute of Environment geology, Technical University Braunschweig.
• 01.1999 - 05.2004: Senior Engineer in Hydrogeology and Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University.
• 01.1990 - 07.1997: Engineer in Hydrogeology, Research Department Manager, Geological Environmental Centre of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China
• 07.1989 – 12.1989: Assistant Engineer, Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources, Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou, China

Education

• 2010: Dr. rer. nat. “Sustainable groundwater resource management in China”, University of Tuebingen, Germany
• 1998: Certification, International Advanced Studies Course “Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology of Tropical and Subtropical Regions”, University of Tuebingen, Germany
• 1997: B.Sc Economy (second major), Land real estate management, College of Economy, Zhejiang University, China
• 1989: M.Sc.-Ing., Hydro-geochemistry, Chengdu Technical University, China
• 1986: B.Sc.-Ing., Hydrogeology, Chengdu Technical University, China