Professor Wu Qiang, born in October 1959 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, is the first ever Doctor in mine hydrogeology in China. Professor Wu's academic career started when he received his Bachelors from Hebei Geo University in 1982, and by December 2015, he was successfully elected as Academician of Energy and Mineral by the Chinese Academy of Engineering. In 2016, he officially accepted Jilin University as a joint-faculty.
After graduating from Wuqiang University, Professor Wu remained in his alma mater as a teaching faculty. Between 1985 and 1991, he studied at the China University of Geosciences (Beijing Campus), where he earned his master's and doctorate degree. Upon graduation, he remained in CUG to finish his postdoctoral research from September 1991 to September 1993, and was accepted as faculty post-rotation. From September 1995 to August 1997, Professor Wu took a sabbatical to work in the famous Delft Institute for Water Education, where he earned a second Master's Degree in recognition of his research.
Currently Professor Wu is a tenured professor at China Mining University (Beijing Campus); he is also the director of the National Research Center for Water Hazard Prevention and Control in Coal Mines (Beijing). Award-wise, he is the recipient of the Li Siguang Geological Science Award, one of the first ten scientists to receive the Exemplary Chinese Postdoctoral Fellowship; he has also been awarded the National Excellent Teachers, the MoE Innovation Team Award. He is named Chief Expert of the Mine Safety Expert Team by the China Science Association; received the National Science Fellowship for the First National Millennial Ten Million Talents Project, as well as a recipient of the Special Research Fellowship from the State Council. Professor Wu is an executive committee member of the International Mineral Water Association, chair of the China National Committee of the IMWA, deputy editor of the International SCI Retrieval Journal Mine Water and the Environment, member of the State Administration of Safety in Production Technical Committee, and head of the State Mine Safety Supervision Bureau Hydrogeology Taskforce.
Professor Wu has long been engaged in mine water disaster prevention and water resources research. He has earned wide recognition for his academic achievements. He has authored 10 books, more than 200 academic research articles, 50 of which are archived by SCI.
He has won two second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 10 first prize of the provincial and ministerial level, holds more than 20 National Patents, owns more than 20 nationally copyrighted software, and penned many national technical standards and tools. Other laurels include:
One distinguished prize from the Coal Industry Scientific and Technological Progress Award;
Two first prizes from The Coal Industry Scientific and Technological Progress Award;
One first Prize from the 2002 Hebei Province Science and Technology Progress Award;
Top 10 Coal Industry Science and Technology Progress Award 2000";
One second prize from the MoE Scientific and Technological Progress Award;
One second prize from the Coal Industry Scientific and Technological Progress Award;
One first prize from Shanxi Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award;
Three third prize from MoGMR's Scientific and Technological Progress Award;
One third Prize from the Henan Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award.
In recent years, Professor Wu has also participated in the investigation of serious percolation incidents in China as the head of expert task force of the State Council.
