Tong Jiang#
| Membership Number: | 6489 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | http://geography.nuist.edu.cn |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022,03 - present Executive Director of the Research Institute of Climatic and Environmental Governance of Jiangsu Province, China
- 2018,09 - 2022,09 Professor and Dean of School of Geographical Science, Director of the Institute of Disaster Risk Management, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
- 2008,05 – 2018,09 Professor and Chief Scientist in the National Climate Centre, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
- 1999,07 - 2001,09 Post-doc at the CNRS Laboratory, MTG, Rouen University, France
- 1994,04 - 1999,06 Doctoral candidate and research assistant at the Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
- 1995,06 - 1995,12 Practitioner in Munich Reinsurance Company for developing NatCat Services
- 1993,06 - 1993,12 Visiting scholar at the Flood Research Centre of Middlesex University, UK
- 1991,05 - 1991,10 Visiting scholar at the Institute of Geography and Centre for Environmental Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
- 1987,07 - 2008,04 Professor and Assistant Director in the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Risk management of weather extremes - floods, droughts and heat waves
- Impact- and risk-based early warning for weather extremes
- Socio-economic and climatic projections
- Projections of climate impact on water resources and public health
- Climate change impact and vulnerability
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Jiang T. et al.: Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of the Jiangsu Provincial Government for Impact-based Early Warning for Hydro-Meteorological Extremes. (Provincial Level)
- 2020 Jiang T. et al.: First Prize of Natural Science Award of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region for Change in Hydro-Meteorological Extremes and Their Impact on Socio-economics. (Provincial Level)
- 2020 Jiang T. et al.: First Prize of Science and Technology Award of the Ministry of Water Resources for Impact of Climate Change on Water Cycle and Water Resource Safety and Adaption Measures. (National Level)
- 2020 Jiang T. et al.: First Prize of Education and Teaching Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for Introducing on Climate Change Science. (National Level)
- 2018 Jiang T. et al.: Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of the China Meteorological Society for Multi-scale and Cross-sectors Integrated Research on Climate Change Impacts. (National Level)
- 2017 Jiang T. et al.: Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of the Hubei Provincial Government for Principal Techniques of Long-term Projections on Extreme Flood/drought Disasters and Impacts (Provincial Level)
- 2017 Jiang T. et al.: First Prize of Science and Technology Award of the Changjiang (Yangtze) River Commission for Techniques of Long-term prediction on Flood/drought Disasters. (Provincial Level)
- 2014 Jiang T. et al.: Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of the Jiangsu Provincial Government for Meteorological Information applied to Disaster Risk Assessment (Provincial Level)
