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Dr. Wenyan Zhang

Wenyan Zhang

Dr. Wenyan Zhang

Sediment Transport and Morphodynamics

Head of Department

Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-1568

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I am interested in understanding those physical / geological / biochemical processes which control the source-to-sink transport of solid material (clastic sediment and particulate organic matter) on the Earth surface. More specifically, my research topics include:

  • The quantitative impact of macrobenthos in benthic-pelagic coupling and seafloor material recycling
  • Morphogenesis and morphodynamics of medium- to large-scale sedimentary systems
  • Sedimentation processes from coastal, mid-shelf to deep-sea environments

Research

since 11/2015 Research scientist at Institute of Coastal Research, Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht

2013 - 2015 Postdoc at MARUM, University of Bremen, Germany

2010 - 2013 Postdoc at Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, Germany

2010 Postdoc at Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of Szczecin, Poland

Education

2008 - 2010 Ph.D at Institute of Physics, University of Greifswald, Germany

2006 - 2010 Ph.D at Department of Fluid Mechanics, School of Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China

2007 Ph.D study at Institute of Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde, Germany

2004 - 2006 Master study at Department of Fluid Mechanics, School of Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China

2000 - 2004 Double Bachelor in Computational Sciences, School of Mathematics and Computational Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University

2000 - 2004 Bachelor in Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematics and Computational Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University

Teaching

2010 - 2013 Computational Science (Teaching Assistant, University of Greifswald

2011 Coastal Sediment Transport (Lecturer, University of Szczecin)

2007 Coastal dynamics (Teaching Assistant, Sun Yat-sen University)

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