Professor Chunmiao Zheng holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include groundwater contaminant transport and remediation, basin-scale ecohydrological processes, and the effects of global change and emerging contaminants on water resource sustainability. He is the developer of the MT3D/MT3DMS series of contaminant transport models used in over 100 countries. He is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international open-access journal Sustainable Horizons. He has also served as associate editor for five leading hydrology and water resource journals, the Committee on Hydrologic Science of the U.S. National Research Council, and President of the International Commission on Groundwater of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS).

Employment History

2022-Now: Chair Professor and Vice President, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China.

2022-Now: Chair Professor, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

2018-2022: Chair Professor and Vice Provost of Global Strategies, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

2015-2018: Chair Professor and Founding Dean, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China.

2010-2015, Chair Professor and Founding Director, Institute of Water Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

1993-2010, from Assisitant Professor to George Lindahl III Endowed Professor, University of Alabama

1988-1993, Senior Hydrogeologist, S.S. Papadopulos & Associates, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland.

Awards and Honors

2024, Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW) (Groundwater category)

2019, Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

2014, Distinguished Alumni Award, Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin.

2013, O.E. Meinzer Award, Hydrogeology Division, Geological Society of America

2013, M. King Hubbert Award, National Ground Water Association.

2009, Birdsall-Dreiss Distinguished Lecturer, Hydrogeology Division, Geological Society of America

1999, Fellow, Geological Society of America.

1998, John Hem Excellence in Science and Engineering Award, National Ground Water Association.