Hydrology (ISSN: 2306-5338) is pleased to announce the following 30 researchers, who have been added to our group of 2025–2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members (ECEBMs). Applications for the Early Career Editorial Board are now closed. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the Hydrology community!

Name: Dr. Ebrahim Ghaderpour
Affiliation: Department of Earth Sciences & CERI Research Centre, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, Italy
Website: https://research.uniroma1.it/researcher/50f09bea13ee8cd599bedb2a3297f8e89b397e9275c3332540306207?page=1
Interests: artificial intelligence; remote sensing; environmental sciences; geology; hydrology

Name: Dr. Nan Xu
Affiliation: ¹ Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China;
² College of Geography and Remote Sensing, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9912-2347
Interests: coastal remote sensing; water resource remote sensing; GeoAI

Name: Dr. Mariusz Ptak
Affiliation: Department of Hydrology and Water Management, Adam Mickiewicz University, B. Krygowskiego 10, 61-680 Poznań, Poland
Website: https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info.seam?id=UAM143611&affil=&lang=pl
Interests: lakes; rivers; water level; water temperature; ice cover; water resources

Name: Dr. Fan Zhang
Affiliation: Jixian National Forest Ecosystem Observation and Research Station, National Ecosystem Research Network of China (CNERN), School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
Websites: https://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=qjiXE2EAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4648-5851
Interests: green and efficient utilization of agricultural water and land resources; ecosystem service analysis of agricultural systems; decision making support under multiple uncertainties

Name: Prof. Dr. Danqing Song
Affiliation: ¹ School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China;
² State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China
Websites: https://www2.scut.edu.cn/jtxy/2023/0828/c35030a516914/page.htm; https://www2.scut.edu.cn/jtxy_en/weotechnicalwngineering/list.htm
Interests: disaster-causing mechanism; prevention and control technology of underground engineering under hydrodynamic coupling

Name: Dr. Linjing Qiu
Affiliation: Department of Earth and Environmental Science, School of Human Settlements and Civil Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China
Website: https://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/en/web/qiulinjing; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7250-5698
Interests: land cover change; water cycle; climate change; numerical simulation; watershed hydrology

Name: Dr. Rocky Talchabhadel
Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Jackson State University, Jackson, MI, USA
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/rockytalchabhadel
Interests: meteorology and atmospheric sciences; water resources environmental sciences and ecology; geology engineering

Name: Dr. Stefania Anna Palermo
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Website: https://eleanor.unical.it/eleanor/dettaglianagrafica.asp?docente=374&dipartimento=1&ruolo=6
Interests: hydrology; urban stormwater management; urban flooding risk; water quality; nature-based solutions; low-impact development systems; modeling; numerical analysis; water resource management; water balance; soil sciences

Name: Dr. Zipeng Zhang
Affiliation: ¹ College of Geography and Remote Sensing Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China;
² Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830017, China
Website: https://geography.xju.edu.cn/info/1021/1444.htm; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4529-8704
Interests: soil organic carbon dynamics; hyperspectral quantitative remote sensing; soil biogeochemical modeling

Name: Dr. Francesco Ronchetti
Affiliation: Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Giuseppe Campi, 103-41125 Modena, Italy
Website: https://personale.unimore.it/rubrica/dettaglio/uranio
Interests: hydrogeology; water isotopes; tracer tests; fractured aquifer; karst aquifer; water spring; alluvial aquifer; numerical modeling; geostatistics; hydrochemistry; seawater intrusion

Name: Prof. Dr. Jiangjiang Zhang
Affiliation: Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Website: https://www.yicode.org.cn/en/people/jiangjiang-zhang/; http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0513-5233
Interests: rainfall-runoff modeling; data assimilation; machine learning

Name: Dr. Jia Qin
Affiliation: ¹ Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
² Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences and Frozen Soil Engineering, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
³ Tanggula Mountain Cryosphere and Environment Observation and Research Station of Tibet Autonomous Region, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China;
⁴ University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Website: https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~qinj; https://people.ucas.ac.cn/~qinj?language=en
Interests: hydrological simulation; alpine hydrology; permafrost; cold region

Name: Dr. Wenzhao Liang
Affiliation: Department of Ocean Science and Center for Ocean Research in Hong Kong and Macau, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China
Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9HrAKb0AAAAJ&hl=zh-TW
Interests: hydrodynamics and biogeochemical cycling in surface water–groundwater interactions at different scales (small: intertidal zone/benthic sediment interface; large: deltaic/continental pathway); machine learning-driven analysis of long-term databases (in-situ observation/remote sensing) for natural hazard prediction and informing environmental/sustainable policymaking

Name: Dr. Bojan Đurin
Affiliation: Department of Civil Engineering, University North, Jurja Križanića 31b, 42000 Varaždin, Croatia
Website: https://www.unin.hr/en/profiles/profile/durin-bojan
Interests: hydrology; water supply; hydrotechnical facilities; renewable energy; environmental engineering

Name: Dr. Donatas Pupienis
Affiliation: Laboratory of Geoenvironmental Research, Nature Research Centre, 08412 Vilnius, Lithuania
Website: https://www.hkk.gf.vu.lt/biografijos/biografijos-donatas-pupienis/
Interests: Baltic Sea; coastal processes; sediment transport; heavy minerals; coastal morphology; sea level; environment monitoring; sedimentary environments and processes in different water bodies; coastal management; coastal and marine geology; aeolian processes; deltaic processes; storm analysis; climate change

Name: Dr. Junfeng Xiong
Affiliation: Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9409-5797
Interests: remote sensing of inland water; applications of machine learning for satellite monitoring

Name: Dr. Zhuangcai Tian
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Construction and Healthy Operation and Maintenance of Deep Underground Engineering (Research Center for Deep Ocean Science and Underwater Engineering), China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
Website: http://faculty.cumt.edu.cn/TZC/en/index.htm
Interests: marine engineering geology and environment

Name: Dr. Zhanbin Luo
Affiliation: Department of Land Resource Management, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Website: https://ggy.hhu.edu.cn/_t1473/2024/0909/c12362a288320/page.psp; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2470-7620
Interests: soil ecohydrology; efficient utilization of water and soil resources; territorial space protection and restoration; ecological carbon sink

Name: Dr. Tausif Ahmad
Affiliation: Advanced Materials and Porous Membrane Center, King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1286-3669
Interests: water treatment technologies and membrane science

Name: Dr. Barlin Orlando Olivares Campos
Affiliation: Biodiversity Management Research Group (GESBIO-UCO), Rabanales Campus, University of Córdoba, National Highway IV km 396, 14014 Córdoba, Spain
Website: https://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/gesbio/quienes-somos/
Interests: exploring critical areas such as plant biology, soil science, environmental stress, and food systems to tackle global challenges like climate change, food security, and sustainability; leveraging advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, to model complex biological and environmental processes, predict climate impacts, and optimize agricultural practices

Name: Dr. Guanxi Yan
Affiliation: School of Civil Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1466-7805
Interests: geotechnical engineering; geophysics; groundwater; hydrogeology; unsaturated soil mechanic

Name: Dr. Jinjun Zhou
Affiliation: College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
Website: https://english.bjut.edu.cn/info/1351/5412.htm
Interests: urban flooding; stormwater simulation; urban drainage network simulation; rainfall forecast; resilient city

Name: Dr. Wangjun Jiang
Affiliation: China Geological Survey, Tianjin 300170, China
Website: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1670-3626
Interests: environment; water quality; hydrogeochemistry; environmental geochemistry; hydrochemistry; water chemistry

Name: Dr. Márton Veress
Affiliation: Department of Geography, Savaria University Centre, Eötvös Lóránd University, 9700 Szombathely, Hungary
Website: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6603108458
Interests: geomorphology; karst morphology; karst types

Name: Dr. Hao Han
Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710061, China
Website: https://www.iahr.org/individual-member/user?member_no=32020
Interests: hydrology and water resources; flood modeling; sponge city using high-precision remote sensing data

Name: Dr. Xiaoyu Guo
Affiliation: ¹ State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lincui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China;
² Motuo Observation & Research Center for Earth Landscape and Earth Systems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Website: https://itpcas.cas.cn/sourcedb_itpcas_cas/cn/expert/202306/t20230621_6784280.html; https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57211169638
Interests: hydrometeorology; isotope hydrology

Name: Dr. Kul Khand
Affiliation: ASRC Federal Data Solutions, Contractor to USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198, USA
Website: https://www.usgs.gov/earth-resources-observation-and-science-eros-center
Interests: hydrology; remote sensing; climate change; water and food security

Name: Dr. Omer Mermer
Affiliation: IIHR Hydroscience and Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Website: https://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/people/omer-mermer/
Interests: hydroinformatics; environmental science; machine learning model development; feature engineering; XAI; smart sensors; IoT technologies; system engineering

Name: Dr. Qi Zhang
Affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China
Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1267-4822
Interests: unsaturated soil mechanics; THM; slope instability; plant–soil interactions; environmental geotechnics; climate change

Name: Dr. Farhad Bahmanpouri
Affiliation: Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council (CNR), 06128 Perugia, Italy
Website: http://hydrology.irpi.cnr.it/people/farhad-bahmanpouri/
Interests: experimental and numerical methods in hydraulic and river engineering; hydrological modeling; sediment transport; entropy model; CFD in hydraulic and hydrologic engineering; flood modeling

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