About the Authors
Prof. Dr. Xiangzhou Xu is a full professor and Ph.D.
supervisor at Dalian University of Technology (China).
His expertise includes resource sustainability, soil and
water conservation, urban rainwater utilization, and
topography measurement. His research focus lies in
physical experiments in the laboratory as well as in the
field. The Topography Meter developed by him opened
a new way for further tracking and measuring the
landslides. He is the principal investigator of over ten
national, ministerial and provincial projects, including
three projects funded by the National Natural Science
Foundation of China and one by the Excellent Talent
Programs in the Universities of Liaoning Province. He
has also won two prizes of the Ministerial and
Provincial-Level Science and Technology Awards as
the first or third accomplisher. He is the first or corresponding author of over 50 journal articles, and first or
co-author of three monographs. He has filed 2 PCT
patents, and more than 20 Chinese invention patents
(16 of which have been granted).
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