Qiuhua Liang is a Professor of Water Engineering at Loughborough University, UK, elected fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE), and holds a UNESCO Chair in Informatics and Multi-hazard Risk Reduction (IMRR). He received his B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from the Dalian University of Technology, China (1997), and his D.Phil. in Computational Hydraulics from the University of Oxford (2005). He started to work as a Lecturer at Newcastle University in March 2006 and has been promoted to Senior Lecturer (2011) and Full Professor of Hydrosystems Modelling (2013). He joined Loughborough University in 2018 and has since established the multi-disciplinary International Centre for Informatics and Disaster Resilience (ICIDR) and initiated the Global Partnership for Smart Informatics and Multi-hazard Reduction (SIMR). He has extensive experience in developing high-performance computer models for predicting/forecasting natural hazards, including different types of floods, landslides, debris flows, and tsunamis, and assessing their risk. The resulting models, including his team’s flagship model (HiPIMS), have been widely applied to support flood risk forecasting and assessment in the UK, China, Japan, Nepal, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, etc. He has been invited as a Visiting/Adjunct professor at Kyoto and Kobe Universities in Japan and several universities/research organizations in China.