Prof. Weicheng Wu
East China University of Technology, China

Biography:

Weicheng Wu, with a PhD in Environmental Geography from the University of Paris I (2003), won the title of “Top Ten Chinese Leading Talents in Science and Technology in Europe” in 2018 and the title of Long-term Innovative Leading Scientist of the “Thousand Talents Plan” of Jiangxi Province in 2018. Professor Wu has gained more than 30 years of professional experience, of which 22 years were spent in European universities such as Ecole Partique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) in France, University of Louvain in Belgium and University of Sassari in Italy, and international organization, namely, the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). He has been engaged in the application of Geo-information Technology in agriculture-forest-pasture resources assessment, land degradation monitoring, natural disaster risk identification and modeling. He has managed and/or participated in more than 20 international cooperative R&D projects supported by CNRS of France, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the world consortia such as AusAID, CGIAR, IFAD, UNDP, USAID, etc. His projects are distributed in Central, Western and Southern Asia, Eastern, Northern and Western Africa, European Mediterranean Region, and Northwestern and South China. His R&D activities provide technical support for poverty alleviation in the poor developing countries, especially, those that have been suffering from wars, and a scientific basis for sorting out their food security issue.