Professor Fang held positions as Executive Associate Director of Office of Academic Planning, Director of Office of Development and Planning and Director of Research and Development Affairs Office, Tsinghua University. He has been the Provost of Southern University of Science and Technology since January, 2022.

Professor Fang mainly engages in research of numerical simulation of flow and sediment transport, eco-fluvial dynamics. He is the chief editor for the official journal of World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research, International Journal of Sediment Research (IJSR) and an associate editor for Journal of Hydraulic Engineering (JHE), the publication of American Society of Civil Engineers. He was recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and was funded by the Yangtze River Scholar Program for Distinguished Professors.

Academic Achievements:

The new mechanism of river dynamics and sediment transport in river engineering won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award; the key technology of coupled transport of sediment, nuclides and thermal discharge and its application in coastal nuclear power projects received the second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award.