• EH14 4AS

    United Kingdom

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1993 …2025

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Biography

  • Ph. D., Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA
  • B.S., Electric Engineering/Physics, Nanjing University, China
Qingping Zou joined Heriot-Watt University as a Professor of Coastal Dynamics at The Lyell Centre for Earth and Marine Science and Technology and Institute for Infrastructure and Environment in 2017. After her PhD, she worked at MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Johns Hopkins University in US, Dalhousie University and Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Canada. Prior to her current position, she was a Reader (equiv. of Full/Assoc. Prof.) at University of Plymouth in UK and tenure track Assistant Professor at the University of Maine in US.

Research interests

Her research interests cover a broad spectrum of topics in the area of physical oceanography, coastal dynamics, coastal and ocean engineering,  environmental fluid mechanics and marine renewable energy, such as ocean waves, coastal flooding, resilience and adaptation to changing climate, fluid-structure interactions, turbulent boundary layers, sediment transport and scour, wave and flow interaction with vegetation and marine habitats, nature based solution,  gray, green and hybrid coastal structure, transport of marine pollutants including plastics from river to coast, wave-current-tide-storm surge interactions, aquaculture and coastal ecology, marine renewable energy, coast-river interaction, remote sensing and air-sea interaction.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 14 - Life Below Water

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