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Qingping Zou

Professor

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5332-0855

  • United Kingdom

  • Riccarton

    EH14 4AS Edinburgh

    United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Accepting CSC, commonwealth and other Government-, self-funded PhD Students, Postdoc and scholar; Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MCSA) Postdoctoral Fellowships<br/>

1993 …2026

Research activity per year

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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.

To tackle these problems, her group developed theoretical models, in house single and two phase flow RANS-VOF and LES-CLSVOF, novel particle method, finite element and morphological models, extended OPENFOAM and SPH, to study small scale ocean processes. Her group have also used the state of the art models such as SWAN, WAVEWATCH III, ROMS, Delft3D, SWASH, ADCIRC and MIKE21 to resolve large scale coupled dynamics of air, ocean circulation, waves, tide, surge, sediment and pollutant transport from rivers to nearshore regions and ocean basins.

Keywords

  • GC Oceanography
  • Ocean Waves
  • Coastal Processes
  • Physical oceanography
  • Coastal dynamics
  • Air-Sea interaction
  • Turbulent boundary layers
  • Storm Surge
  • Tide
  • Sediment transport
  • Coastal Flooding
  • Coastal resilience
  • Sea level rise
  • Climate Change
  • flow interaction with vegetation
  • nature based solution
  • SWAN
  • Delft3D
  • WAVEWATCH III
  • Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS)
  • ADCIRC
  • ADCIRC-SWAN
  • SWASH
  • TC Hydraulic engineering. Ocean engineering
  • Marine Renewable Energy
  • Coastal Engineering
  • Ocean Engineering
  • fluid-structure interactions
  • OpenFOAM
  • Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
  • MIKE21
  • QE Geology
  • sediment transport
  • Morphodynamics
  • SH Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling
  • Aquaculture
  • Marine habitats
  • TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
  • Coastal Engneering
  • Coastal Protection
  • Coastal Adaptation
  • Coastal and Marine structure

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):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  3. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  4. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  5. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  6. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  7. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  8. SDG 14 - Life Below Water
    SDG 14 Life Below Water
  9. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

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