Director: Department of Regional Soil and Water Conservation and Environment; Professor in Soil and Water conservation

　　Mobil phone number: +86(0) 13772119949

　　Email: wafe@ms.iswc.ac.cn

　　Address: Xinong Road 26, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi Province, China

　　Main Research Topics:

　　His research advances understanding of sustainable land management (SLM) focusing on the environmental, economic and social impacts of land degradation and soil conservation, integrated management and sustainable development,environmental policy development based on science and stakeholders involved, and impact of climate change and its adaptation .

　　Qualifications:

　　BSc of Geography (Shaanxi Normal University, 1994)

　　MSc of Agriculture (Northwest A&F University, Soil Sciences, 2000)

　　PhD of Agriculture (Soil Sciences, 2004)(Northwest A&F University)

　　Research Experiences:

　　Professor: since January 2016

　　* Visiting scholar: the Gothenburg University (GU), Sweden, from November 2017 to November 2018

　　Associate Professor from January 2006 to December 2015

　　* Senior research scholar: Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), the Netherlands, from April 2012 to January 2013

　　* Post-Doc: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), from June 2006 to August 2008

　　Associate Professor: from December 2003 to December 2005

　　Memberships/Fellowships: 

　　Co-Chair and Steering Committee Member of DesertNet International (DNI)(2017-2018)

　　Director of Committee of Young Scientists, Chinese Association of Soil and Water Conservation(2017-2020)

　　Representative of the ninth national congress of China Association for Science and Technology(CAST) (2016-2020)

　　Proposal evaluator of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)

　　Proposal evaluator of Horizon2020 of European Commission Research Executive Agency (EC REA)

　　Proposal evaluator ofthe Italian Projects of National Interest (PRIN) by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR)

　　Expert of UN the Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6), the Assessment Methodologies, Data and Information Working Group (AMG)

　　Expert of UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)

　　Reviewer for 14 scientific research journals

　　Project involved:

　　He has been involved in than 20 (inter-)national projects funded by CGIAR, EU Horizon2020 and FP6, NWO Council of the Netherlands and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), MOST and CAS of China.

　　Jan 2018 – Dec 2021, PI, Synergism of Changes of Rainfall Events and Vegetation Restoration on Soil Water Recharge in the Semiarid Loess Plateau, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, No. 41771558)

　　Jan 2018 – Dec 2021, PI, The key technology of close-to-nature soil and water conservation practices in the Qingling-Bashan mountain areas, Science and Technology foundation for Water Resources of Shanxi Province 

　　Jan 2015 – Dec 2019, PI, Interactive Soil Quality Assessment in Europe and China for Agricultural Productivity and Environmental Resilience (iSQAPER, Horizon2020, No.635750）

　　Jan 2014 – Dec 2017, PI, Integrated assessment of the "Grain for Green Project” on the erode sloping land and it sustainability. West Light Foundation of The Chinese Academy of Sciences (2013-165-04)

　　Jan 2012 – Dec 2015, PI, Impact of human activities and natural change on the environment on the Loess Plateau and it sustainability. Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZZD-EW-04)

　　Jan 2012 – Dec 2014, PI, Assessment of Human Activities and Climate Change on Discharge and Sediment Load: a Case of Yanhe River, Loess Plateau, National Science Foundation of China Project (NSFC, No. 41171420)

　　June 2011 – May 2013, co-PI, China-Siberia cooperation project on the integrated assessment of soil and water conservation (MoST-2011-147) 

　　Jan 2009 – Nov 2013: co-PI, Development of to improve hydrological and environmental conditions in the Wei River, China, Sino-Dutch Joint Scientific Thematic Research Programme (JSTP) (OND1339291 at NWO Council for Earth and Life Sciences and GJHZ1018 at CAS) 

　　Mar 2007 – Feb 2010: PI and Study site coordinator, Desertification mitigation and remediation of land: DESIRE - a global approach for local solutions (EU FP6, 037046)

　　Jan 2006 – Nov 2010: PI, Soil and water Conservation tillage technology system (Sub-project), National Key Technology Research and Development Program (MOST and CAS, 2006BAD09B04)

　　Jan 2006 – Nov 2009: PI, Synchronous regulation of runoff and sediment in the Wei River Based on the regional difference of ratio of water and sediment reduced by each soil and water conservation, West Light Foundation of CAS

　　Apr 2005 – Apr 2009: PI, Simulation of impacts of conservation agriculture on crop production and field environment in the Yellow River Basin (Sub-project), Conservation agriculture for the dry-land areas of the Yellow River Basin: Increasing the productivity, sustainability, equity and water use efficiency of dry-land agriculture, while protecting downstream water users (CPWFYRB200507) (CGIAR)

　　Publications

　　He published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles on professional journals, such as Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Journal of Hydrology, Science of The Total Environment, Remote Sensing, CATENA, Ecological Engineering, etc., in Chinese and English in which correspondingly for more than 80 articles. The 10 favorite articles as the corresponding author are listed here.

　　Wang Fei, Mu, Xingmin, Rudi Hessel, Zhang Wenshuai, Coen J. Ritsema and Li Rui. 2013. Runoff and Sediment load of the Yan River, China: changes over the last 60 yr. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., (Hydrology and Earth System Sciences) 17: 2515-2527, DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-2515-2013

　　Fei Wang, Rudi Hessel, Xingmin Mu, Jerry Maroulis, Guangju Zhao, VioletteGeissen, CoenRitsema. Distinguishing the impacts of human activities and climate variability on runoff and sediment load change based on paired periods with similar weather conditions: A case in the Yan River, China. Journal of Hydrology, 2015 (527): 884-893. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.05.037

　　Wang Fei, Zhao Guangju, Mu Xingmin, GaoPeng, Sun Wenyi. 2014. Regime Shift Identification of Runoff and Sediment Loads in the Yellow River Basin, China. Water, (6): 3012-3032. DOI: 10.3390/w6103012

　　Fei Wang, Xingmin Mu, Rui Li, LuukFleskens, Lindsay C. Stringer, Coen J. Ritsema. Co-evolution of soil and water conservation policy and human–environment linkages in the Yellow River Basin since 1949. Science of The Total Environment, 2015(508): 166–177. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.11.055

　　Kai Jin, Fei Wang*, Deliang Chen, Qiao Jiao, Lei Xia, LuukFleskens, Xingmin Mu. Assessment of urban effect on observed warming trends during 1955-2012 over China: a case of 45 cities. Climatic Change, 2015, 132(4,):631-643. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1446-7

　　Lei Xia, Fei Wang, Wenshuai Zhang, Kai Jin and Xingmin Mu. Water Use Efficiency of Net Primary Production in Global Terrestrial Ecosystems. Journal of Earth System Science, 2015, 124(5): 921-931. DOI: 10.1007/s12040-015-0587-4

　　Xiaomei Yang*, Fei Wang*, Célia P.M. Bento, Lei Meng, Ruud van Dam, Hans Mol, Guobin Liu, Coen J. Ritsem, VioletteGeissen. Decay characteristics and erosion-related transport of glyphosate in Chinese loess soil under field conditions, Science of The Total Environment, 2015 (530–531):87–95. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.05.082

　　Jiao, Qiao; Li, Rui*; Wang, Fei*; Mu, Xingmin; Li, Pengfei; An, Chunchun. 2016. Impacts of Re-Vegetation on Surface Soil Moisture over the Chinese Loess Plateau Based on Remote Sensing Datasets. Remote Sensing. 8, no. 2: 156. DOI: 10.3390/rs8020156

　　Chong Jiang, Xingmin Mu, Fei Wang*, Guangju Zhao. Analysis of extreme temperature events in the Qinling Mountains and surrounding area during 1960-2012, Quaternary International, 2015, 392，155-167. DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.04.018

　　Chong Jiang, Fei Wang, Haiyan Zhang, Xinling Dong. Quantifying changes in multiple ecosystem services during 2000–2012 on the Loess Plateau, China, as a result of climate variability and ecological restoration. Ecological Engineering 97:258–271. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.10.030