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Professor Huan-Feng DUAN  
段煥豐

YMHKEng [2026]

Professor and Associate Head (Research), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Associate Director of State Key Laboratory of Climate Resilience for Coastal Cities (SKL-CRCC); Associate Director of Otto Poon Research Institute for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure (RICRI), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Areas of expertise
Climate Resilience
Urban Water System
Eco-Hydraulics
Coastal Engineering
Coastal Flooding Analysis
Water Resources Management
Computational Fluid Mechanics
Pipeline Condition Assessment
Honours
  • ASCE Karl Emil Hilgard Hydraulic Prize
  • IAHR Willi H. Hager Award
  • Dayu Water Conservancy Science & Technology Progress Award (2nd Prize), The Ministry of Water Resources of China
Appointments & Affiliations
  • Editor-in-Chief, Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics
  • Vice-chairman, IAHR-HK Chapter
Profile

Prof. Huan-Feng Duan is a Professor of Hydraulics and Water Resources at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He currently serves as Associate Director of the State Key Laboratory of Climate Resilience for Coastal Cities (SKL-CRCC) and Associate Director of the Otto Poon Research Institute for Climate-Resilient Infrastructure (RICRI) at PolyU. Prof. Duan has long been engaged in frontier research in climate resilience and water resources management. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics and an Associate Editor of ASCE flagship Journal of Hydraulic Engineering and IWA AQUA – Water Infrastructure, Ecosystems and Society. His honours include the IAHR Willi H. Hager Award (2021), the ASCE Karl Emil Hilgard Award (2022), and the Second Prize of the Dayu Water Conservancy Science and Technology Award from the Ministry of Water Resources of China (2024).

Education

PhD
Civil Engineering (Hydraulics & Water Resources)
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology