Mengqian LU 陸萌茜

Prof. Mengqian Lu graduated with first-class honours and the Academic Achievement Medal from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at HKUST in 2009. She then furthered her education at Columbia University in the City of New York, where she earned her PhD from the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering in 2014. Her research, centered on hydrometeorology, water resources, and climate risk, has recently been directed towards understanding and predicting hydrometeorological extremes—such as heavy rainfall, floods, and tropical cyclones—due to their societal impact and the potential for scientific insights to drive innovative engineering solutions. She has delineated her research into five key areas: Atmospheric Rivers, Moisture Recycling Networks, the East Asian Monsoon, Extreme Weather Events, and Water Resources Management. Mengqian's research contributions have been featured in prestigious publications, including npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Earth's Future, Water Resources Research and more. Beyond academia, Mengqian is a serial entrepreneur whose innovations have garnered significant recognition, most recently receiving the Gold Award at the Asia International Innovation and Invention Exhibition in Hong Kong in 2023.