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Lu Zhuo

Dr Lu Zhuo

(she/her)

Lecturer in Remote Sensing and Environmental Systems

School of Earth and Environmental Sciences

Email
ZhuoL@cardiff.ac.uk
Campuses
Main Building, Room Room 0.16C, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Lu is a Lecturer in Remote Sensing and Environmental Systems. Her research lies between engineering, science and social science, analysing the impacts of natural hazards and extreme weather conditions on societies. Lu is interested in hydrometeorological hazards, including floods, drought, heatwaves, and landslides on city-region and catchment scales. In particular, she aims to quantify the impact of these events on infrastructure systems, people’s health and socioeconomic development, integrating multiple data sources and modelling tools into a unified analysing and decision-making framework. She has helped with the development of HazardCM, which is a unique software that assesses and quantify risk and vulnerability of infrastructure system to natural hazards in city-regions.

Publication

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2017

2016

2015

Articles

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Conferences

Websites

Research

Lu’s work covers:

  • Remote sensing of environment (earth observations, hazards mapping, soil moisture, land use, extreme weather, air quality)
  • Physical process-based modelling (numerical weather prediction modelling, hydrological modelling, land surface modelling)
  • Geoinformatics (machine learning, spatial modelling, statistical analysis)
  • Agent-based modelling (agent parameterisation, agent behaviour, decision support)

Biography

  • Lecturer, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University (2022 – present)
  • Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol (2021-2022)
  • Lecturer, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield (2019-2021)
  • Research Associate - Water and Environmental Management Research Centre, University of Bristol (2016-2019)
  • PhD - Water and Environmental Management Research Centre, University of Bristol (2016)
  • MEng Master Degree of Civil Engineering – University of Bristol (2011)

Committees and reviewing

Journal editor                                                                                                                               

  • Geocarto International, in areas of Remote sensing, geoscience and environmental sciences.

Journal guest editors

  • Hydrological Processes – “Pluvial Flooding: maturing process understanding from data scarcity into data abundance” special issue (2022).
  • Remote Sensing journal: "Geohazard Mapping for Community Resilience: Susceptibility, Impact, and Recovery" special issue (2022)
  • Sustainability and Water journals – “Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction” joint special issue (2021).

Supervisions

PhD projects open for application:

External PhD students:

  • Co-Supervisor for Zitong Wen (University of Bristol) 2021-current: Urban extreme heat studies through remote sensing and environmental modelling
  • Co-Supervisor for Sichan Du (University of Bristol) 2020-current: WRF-urban modelling for extreme urban rainfall and heat events studies.
  • Co-Supervisor for Mincong Wang (University of Sheffield) 2020-current: Computational Modeling to Test the Cumulative Effects on main channel’s Long-term Landscape Dynamic Equilibrium and Flood Control Efficacy of Tributaries’ Re-naturalization Measures: A case study of the River Don Catchment
  • Co-Supervisor for Ying Liu (University of Bristol) 2019-current: WRF and WRF-chem for extreme weather events modelling
  • Co-Supervisor for Jiao Wang (University of Bristol) 2019-current:  Information theory in hydrological modelling

Past PhD students:

  • Co-Supervisor for Yuexiao Liu (University of Bristol) 2018-2023: Investigation of Reanalysis Data for Regional Landslides and Climate Change in the Emilia Romagna Region of Italy