International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Dexing WU

Profile:

Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2018, Professor Dexing Wu is a distinguished Chinese physical oceanographer whose research and professional work have focused on ocean circulation dynamics, numerical modelling, data analysis, and marine observation technology. Born in May 1952 in Wudi, Shandong Province, he studied at Shandong Ocean College, now Ocean University of China, from 1971 to 1974 and subsequently joined the university as a faculty member. He conducted doctoral research in the Department of Oceanography at the University of Washington, USA, from 1986 to 1992 and received his Ph.D. in physical oceanography from Qingdao Ocean University in 1992. He became Professor in 1995 and Doctoral Supervisor in 1996 and subsequently served as Deputy Director of the Institute of Physical Oceanography, Executive Dean of the College of Marine Environment, and Vice President of the university. From 2005 to 2014, he served as President of Ocean University of China and currently serves as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor and President of its Alumni Association. His professional service has included roles in the Ministry of Education’s teaching and science and technology committees, expert review panels of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Chinese Society for Oceanology, and the China National Committee for the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). He was also a deputy to the 11th National People’s Congress and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals.

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Professor Wu’s research has centred on ocean circulation dynamics, marine environmental prediction, and data assimilation and fusion. He has led more than twenty national research projects under programmes including the National Basic Research Programme, the National High-Tech Research and Development Programme, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and served as Chief Scientist of a 973 Programme project on the evolution of the physical environment of China’s eastern marginal seas and its environmental effects. His theoretical work has addressed equatorial deep jets, abyssal eddies, chaotic mixing and material transport, wave-induced circulation, and decadal variability in the tropical Pacific, contributing to the development of theoretical approaches to ocean dynamics and ocean–environment interactions. He also introduced and applied the concept of a transparent ocean and contributed to the standardisation of at-sea testing for ocean observation instruments. As technical group leader of the Bohai Sea Blue Sea Action Plan, he led environmental baseline surveys and contributed to the preparation of the programme’s framework. He has published more than 170 scientific papers and three edited volumes and holds nine invention patents and software copyrights. His work has received a National Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Prize) and several provincial and ministerial awards. Through sustained research, academic leadership, and engagement with national marine programmes, Professor Wu has contributed to connecting physical oceanography with marine environmental management and to the development of ocean observation, marine science, and oceanographic education in China.