Prof. Jinyu Sheng
Dalhousie University, Canada
Biography:
Dr. Jinyu Sheng is a Full Professor in Physical Oceanography at Dalhousie University, Canada. He received his doctoral degree in Physical Oceanography from the Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1990. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow and then Research Associate in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University in1990-1998. Dr. Sheng has been a faculty member of Dalhousie since 1999. As a faculty member at Dalhousie, Dr. Sheng served as the NSERC/MARTEC/MSC Industrial Research Chair (Junior and then Associate) in the Regional Ocean Modelling and Prediction in 1999-2008. Jinyu also served as the Research Chair for the International Network to Improve Prediction of Model Extreme Marine Events in 2011-2016.
Dr. Sheng’s main research interest is physical oceanography, including coastal and shelf dynamics, developments and applications of numerical ocean circulation and wave models, modelling and prediction of extreme marine conditions, and wave-current and ice-current interactions. Dr. Sheng served as an editor-in-chief for the journal of Regional Studies in Marine Science in 2017-2021. He was guest editors for several scientific journals including “Ocean Dynamics”, “Atmosphere-Ocean” and “Journal of Marine Science and Engineering”. Dr. Sheng was awarded as the Applied Oceanography by the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society in 2018.