Deputy Director General 

His research interests cover ocean and climate model development, ocean dynamics, turbulence and air-sea interaction etc. He established the non-breaking surface wave-induced mixing (Bv) theory and discovered the Bv generation mechanism through wave-turbulence interaction. He developed the first in the world new generation surface wave-tide-circulation fully coupled ocean model (FIO-COM) which overcomes the ground challenge for half century of too shallow simulated mixed layer depth, overestimated sea surface temperature especially in summer, the atmosphere-ocean-wave coupled Typhoon model (FIO-AOW) which greatly enhances the Typhoon intensity forecasting ability, and the earth system model including surface waves (FIO-ESM v1.0 and 2.0) which kills more than half the long-standing tropical biases. Dr. Qiao is the Executive Planning Group and Decade Advisory Board member of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, Co-chair of IOC/WESTPAC, Editor-in-chief of Ocean Modelling etc. He received numerous academic awards including Wooster Award of PICES, National Innovation Awards of China etc.