FANG Hongwei, Professor at Tsinghua University, Vice Chancellor of Southern University of Science and Technology. Recipient of the National Distinguished Young Investigator Fund, appointed as a Changjiang Scholar by the Minister of Education, and Editor-in-Chief of the SCI journal Int. J. of Sediment Research (International Journal of Sediment Research). He has successively completed significant national research tasks, including sediment erosion and deposition analysis and calculations for the Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River, the floodplain area of the Yellow River, the Longtan Project on the Pearl River, as well as flood control and water ecological management of the Yongding River. His research achievement “New Mechanisms of River Dynamics and Sediment Control in River and River Engineering” was awarded the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award. The research on “Key Technologies of Coupled Transport of Sediment, Nuclides, and Thermal Effluent and Their Application in Coastal Nuclear Power Engineering” received the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. His foundational research “Eco-hydraulic Dynamics” was honoured with the Hans Albert Einstein Award by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).