2022.12-present, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2021.5-2022.12, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2020.12-2021.5, Assistant Researcher, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2018.3-2020.9, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

2016.7-2018.2, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA

2015.9-2016.6, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

2014.7-2015.9, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

1. Eco-hydraulic Engineering

2. Transport in environmental flows

1.Environmental fluid mechanics

2.Eco-hydraulics

3.Transport of passive particles (e.g., solute, contaminants, suspended and bedload sediments) and active particles (e.g., the microorganisms).

4.Aquatic ecosystems modelling and simulation.

1. Ministry of Science and Technology of China, “Numerical simulation and health assessment framework for aquatic ecosystems in typical reaches of the Yangtze River”, 2022-2026, PI, ￥1,000,000.

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China – General Program, “Study on the two-regime scaling for the hop distance-time relation during bedload sediment particle motions”, 2022-2025, PI, ￥580,000.

3. Ministry of Science and Technology of China, “Regulation thresholds and suitable processes for sustainable river system with coupled processes”, 2021-2025, PI, ￥4,500,000.

4. National program for young talents. 2021-2024, PI, ￥3,000,000.

5. Startup funds of Tsinghua University. 2021-2024, PI, ￥3,000,000.

6. International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program. 2015-2017, PI, ￥300,000.

1. Water Resources Research，Associate Editor

2. Journal of Hydrology，Associate Editor

3. Journal of Hydroinformatics，Associate Editor

4. Energy, Ecology and Environment，Subject Editor

1.National program for young talents, 2020.

2.Preeminent Postdoctoral Program Award, University of Central Florida, 2018.

3.Outstanding reviewer, Ecological Indicators, 2018.

4.Outstanding reviewer, Journal of Hydrology, 2017.

Published over 40 research papers in SCI-indexed journals including Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Water Resources Research, Journal of Geophysical Research (Earth Surface, Oceans), Advances in Water Resources, Journal of Hydrology, with a total citation over 1000 times (Web of Science) and a H-index of 22.

Selected journal publications (* for the corresponding author):

1. Arvind Singh*; Zi Wu*; Peter Wilcock; Efi Foufoula-Georgiou; Experimental observations of bedload tracer movement: effects of mixed particle sizes and bedforms, Water Resources Research, 2023, 59: e2022WR033114.

2. Guangmiao Li; Zheng Gong; Weiquan Jiang; Jie Zhan; Bohan Wang; Xudong Fu; Mengzhen Xu; Zi Wu*; Environmental transport of gyrotactic microorganisms in an open-channel flow, Water Resources Research, 2023, 59: e2022WR033229.

3. Zi Wu*; Weiquan Jiang*; Li Zeng; Xudong Fu*; Theoretical analysis for bedload particle deposition and hop statistics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023, 954: A11.

4. Zheng Gong; Zi Wu*; Chenge An; Bangwen Zhang; Xudong Fu*; CP3d: A comprehensive Euler-Lagrange solver for direct numerical simulation of particle-laden flows, Computer Physics Communications, 2023, 286: 108666.

5. Yuliang Zhu; Mingze Lin; Xiaoteng Shen*; Michael Fettweis; Ying Zhang; Jinfeng Zhang; Qilong Bi; Zi Wu*; Biomineral Flocculation of Kaolinite and Microalgae: Laboratory Experiments and Stochastic Modeling, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2022, 127: e2022JC018591.

6. Weiquan Jiang; Li Zeng; Xudong Fu*; Zi Wu*; Analytical solutions for reactive shear dispersion with boundary adsorption and desorption, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022, 947: A37.

7. Yu Yang; Weiquan Jiang; Yihong Wu; Ping Wang; Zi Wu*; Bo Zhang; Li Zeng*; Migration of buoyancy-controlled active particles in a laminar open-channel flow, Advances in Water Resources, 2021, 156: 104023.

8. Zi Wu*; A Singh; E Foufoula-Georgiou; M Guala; Xudong Fu; Guangqian Wang; A velocity-variation-based formulation for bedload particle hops in rivers, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021, 912: A33.

9. Z Wu*; David Furbish; E Foufoula-Georgiou*; Generalization of hop distance-time scaling and particle velocity distributions via a two-regime formalism of bedload particle motions, Water Resources Research, 2020, 56: e2019WR025116.

10. Zi Wu*; Arvind Singh; Xudong Fu; Guangqian Wang; Transient anomalous diffusion and advective slowdown of bedload tracers by particle burial and exhumation, Water Resources Research, 2019, 55: 7964-7982.

11. Zi Wu*; Efi Foufoula-Georgiou; Gary Parker; Arvind Singh; Xudong Fu; Guangqian Wang; Analytical solution for anomalous diffusion of bedload tracers gradually undergoing burial, Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2019, 124: 21-37.

12. Ran Gao; Xudong Fu*; Zi Wu*; Indicators for evaluating uncertainties of solute concentration prediction in wetland flows, Ecological Indicators, 2019, 105: 688-699.

13. Zi Wu*; Arvind Singh; On the effect of solute release position on plume dispersion, Journal of Hydrology, 2018, 566: 607-615.

14. Zi Wu*; Xudong Fu*; Guangqian Wang; Complete spatial concentration distribution for Taylor dispersion in packed tube flow, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2016, 92: 987-994.

15. Zi Wu*; Xudong Fu; Guangqian Wang; On spatial pattern of concentration distribution for Taylor dispersion process, Scientific Reports, 2016, 6: 20556.

16. Xudong Fu; Ran Gao; Zi Wu*; Additional longitudinal displacement for contaminant dispersion in wetland flow, Journal of Hydrology, 2016, 532: 37-45.

17. L. Zeng; Zi Wu*; Xudong Fu; Guangqian Wang; Performance of the analytical solutions for Taylor dispersion process in open channel flow, Journal of Hydrology, 2015, 528: 301-311.

18. Zi Wu*; Xudong Fu; Guangqian Wang; Concentration distribution of contaminant transport in wetland flows, Journal of Hydrology, 2015, 525: 335-344.

19. Zi Wu; G.Q. Chen*; Axial diffusion effect on concentration dispersion, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2015, 84: 571-577.

20. Zi Wu; G.Q. Chen*; Analytical solution for scalar transport in open channel flow: slow-decaying transient effect, Journal of Hydrology, 2014, 519: 1974-1984.

21. Zi Wu; G.Q. Chen*; Approach to transverse uniformity of concentration distribution of a solute in a solvent flowing along a straight pipe, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2014, 740: 196-213.

22. Zi Wu; L. Zeng; G.Q. Chen*; Z. Li; Ling Shao; P. Wang; Z. Jiang; Environmental dispersion in a tidal flow through a depth-dominated wetland, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 2012, 17: 5007-5025.

23. Zi Wu; G.Q. Chen*; Dispersion in a two-zone packed tube: An extended Taylor's analysis, International Journal of Engineering Science, 2012, 50: 113-123.

24. G.Q. Chen*; Zi Wu*; L. Zeng; Environmental dispersion in a two-layer wetland: Analytical solution by method of concentration moments, International Journal of Engineering Science, 2012, 51: 272-291.

25. Zi Wu; Zhi Li; Li Zeng; Ling Shao; Hansong Tang; Qing Yang; Guoqian Chen*; Environmental dispersivity in free-water-surface-effect dominated wetland: Multi-scale analysis, Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering in China, 2011, 5: 597-603.

26. Zi Wu; Z. Li; G.Q. Chen*; Multi-scale analysis for environmental dispersion in wetland flow, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 2011, 16: 3168-3178.

27. Z. Wu; G.Q. Chen*; L. Zeng; Environmental dispersion in a two-zone wetland, Ecological Modelling, 2011, 222: 456-474.