International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Fangli QIAO

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Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2020, Professor Fangli Qiao is a distinguished Chinese oceanographer whose research and professional work have focused on ocean and air–sea coupled modelling, wave–tide–circulation interactions, and typhoon forecasting. Born in 1966, he currently serves as a Second-Level Research Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. He has led or participated in major national and international research programmes, including an Innovative Research Group funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, key projects under the Ministry of Science and Technology’s National Key Research and Development Programme, major international cooperation projects, and the joint funding programme of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Shandong Provincial People’s Government. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Ocean Modelling and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Marine Systems. He also serves as Chairman of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (IOC/WESTPAC), Chairman of the China PICES Scientific Committee, and Chairman of the China National Committee for the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). A recipient of the State Council Special Allowance, he has received the First National Award for Innovation and Excellence and the Ninth China Youth Science and Technology Award, and was selected as a National Leading Talent under the first batch of the Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Project, among other distinctions.

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Professor Qiao’s research has focused on the development of coupled ocean and air–sea models, with particular attention to wave-induced mixing, wave–tide–circulation interactions, typhoon modelling, climate-system modelling, and high-performance computing for ocean models. His research has contributed to the development of wave-induced mixing theory and to the construction of the FIO-COM coupled global high-resolution wave–tide–circulation model, as well as an operational coupled forecasting system based on this modelling framework. He has also developed the FIO-AOW typhoon model incorporating wave spray and other air–sea interaction processes and the FIO-ESM climate model incorporating ocean-wave processes, and has worked on highly efficient parallel algorithms for large-scale ocean modelling. With more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and multiple Provincial and Ministerial First Prizes, his research has contributed to advances in ocean dynamics, coupled Earth-system modelling, marine environmental prediction, and the numerical simulation of extreme marine and atmospheric events. Through sustained research, international scientific cooperation, and leadership in oceanographic organisations, Professor Qiao has contributed to connecting advances in ocean modelling with practical applications in marine forecasting, climate research, and marine disaster risk assessment.