WANG, Lei

　　Title: Professor

　　Address: British Geological Survey, Environmental Science Centre, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG

　　Phone: 0115 936 3484

　　Email: lei.wang@bgs.ac.uk;

　　Education Background:

　　2004 – 2008      PhD Applied Environmental Hydrogeology, Cardiff University.

　　1999 – 2002        PhD Geo-Information, Jilin University China.

　　1996 – 1999        MSc GIS theory and GIS Applications, Jilin University China.

　　1992 – 1996        BSc Applied Geophysics, Changchun University of Geology, China

　　Working Experiences:

　　2008 – present     Senior Researcher, British Geological Survey.

　　2002 – 2004        Research & development manager, Shenzhen Careland Information   Systems Co., Ltd.

　　2000 – 2002        Research assistant (part time), Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

　　Personal Profile:

　　Dr Wang's expertise lies in agricultural diffuse water pollution, hydrological and hydrogeological modelling and environmental real-time modelling. He has successfully won funding worth £2.7m from Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Environment Agency (EA) and Innovate UK (TSB). So far, he has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers, 3 books and 9 BGS technical reports. He has developed 15 pieces of software that are used nationally and internationally.For example, his SLiM model (a rainfall-recharge-runoff model) has been used for teaching by Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, the University of Nottingham. His GISGroundwater, which is the first seamless GIS-groundwater-flow model in the world, has more than 350 downloads worldwide.

　　He has been funded from a number of sources including NERC, DEFRA, EA, TSB and Chinese State Key Laboratory of Simulation and Regulation of Water Cycle in River Basin (SKLWAC). For example, the “Nitrate time bomb” (NTB) research led by him has helped policy makers to realise the necessity of considering nitrate time-lag in the groundwater system when making policies on controlling nitrate water pollution. Therefore, his NTB work has great impacts on agricultural diffuse water pollution management in England and Wales with interest from the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China. The EA has directly invested in integrating his NTB work into their work of designation of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones (NVZs), and began to use NTB model at both the policy and local level in managing nitrate water pollution in England and Wales for better implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and EU Nitrates Directive (ND). His online real-time modelling system (OneRTM), which provides an innovative way to maintain, link, and disseminate models, has been funded by NERC and Innovate UK (TSB) for its commercialisation by working with private companies (e.g. Thames Water, and Maxeler) and governments