主要从事干旱区水文水资源、人水关系演变与社会水文模型研究，发展了干旱区社会水文学理论与研究框架，揭示了内陆河流域社会经济、水文和生态系统间的互馈关系，相关成果得到了广泛关注与引用，为流域管理与工程评估提供了理论依据与技术方法。

截至目前，发表论文近80篇，其中第一作者(含通讯)论文27篇, 合作出版著作5部，获批专利和软著5项。现与美国伊利诺伊大学、澳大利亚昆士兰大学和墨尔本大学、英国开放大学以及国内的清华大学、南方科技大学等院校专家建立了良好的合作关系。

教育经历

2005/09-2009/06，湖南师范大学资源与环境学院，地理科学专业，理学学士, 

2009/09-2012.06，中国科学院研究生院，自然地理学专业，理学硕士, 

2012/09-2015/06，中国科学院大学，自然地理学专业，理学博士, 

2013/11-2014/06，墨尔本大学交流学习。

工作经历

2015/07-2022/01，中国科学院西北生态环境资源研究院，助理研究员, 

2022/02 至今，中国科学院西北生态环境资源研究院，副研究员, 

2017/07-2019/07，澳大利亚昆士兰大学，博士后

[1] Lu Zhixiang, Zhang Jinbo, Li Haolin, Xie Jiali, Luo Yan, Feng Qi, 2025. Different impacts of landscape pattern and industrial structure on water quality in Yellow River’s mainstream and tributary in Gansu, China. Water Resources and Industry, 34, 100327.

[2] Lu Zhixiang, Feng Qi, Xie Jiali, Yin Zhenliang, Zhu Meng, Xu Min, 2023. The reallocation of water and ecosystem service values in arid ecosystems with the implementation of an ecological water diversion project. Applied Water Science, 13, 93.

[3] Lu Zhixiang, Feng Qi, Wei Yongping, Zhao Yan, Ravinesh C Deo, Xie Jiali, Zhou Sha, Zhu Meng, Xu Min, 2022. Basin management inspiration from impacts of alternating dry and wet conditions on water production and carbon uptake in Murray-Darling Basin, Science of the Total Environment, 851, 158359

[4] Lu Zhixiang, Feng Qi, Xiao Shengchun, Xie Jiali, Zou Songbing, Yang Qiu, Si Jianhua, 2021. The impacts of the ecological water diversion project on the ecology-hydrology-economy nexus in the lower reaches in an inland river basin. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 164, 105154.

[5] Lu Zhixiang, Zhao Yan, Wei Yongping, Feng Qi, Xie Jiali, 2019. Differences among Evapotranspiration Products Affect Water Resources and Ecosystem Management in an Australian Catchment. Remote Sensing, 11, 958. 

[6] Lu Zhixiang, Wei Yongping, Feng Qi, Xie Jiali, Xiao Honglang, Cheng Guodong, 2018. Co-evolutionary dynamics of the human-environment system in the Heihe River basin in the past 2000years. Science of The Total Environment, 635:412-422. 

[7]  Lu Zhixiang, Wei Yongping, Feng Qi, Western Andrew W, Zhou Sha, 2018. A framework for incorporating social processes in hydrological models. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 33:42–50. 

[8]  Lu Zhixiang, Wei Yongping, Xiao Honglang, Zou Songbing, Xie Jiali, Ren Juan, Western Andrew W, 2015. Evolution of the human-water relationships in Heihe River basin in the past 2,000 years. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, (19):2261-2273.

[9] Lu Zhixiang, Wei Yongping, Xiao Honglang, Zou Songbing, Ren Juan, Lyle Clive, 2015. Trade-offs between midstream economic development and downstream ecological sustainability in the Heihe River basin in the past half century. Agricultural Water Management, 152:233-242. 

[10] Lu Zhixiang, Zou Songbing, Xiao Honglang, Zheng Chunmiao, Yin Zhenliang, Wang Weihua, 2015. Comprehensive hydrologic calibration of SWAT and water balance analysis in mountainous watersheds in Northwest China. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, (79-82):76-85.

主持和完成科研项目10余项，包括国家自然科学基金、中国博士后管理委员会、中国科学院、陇原青年创新创业人才项目，第三次新疆综合科学考察项目任务，甘肃省科技计划重大项目课题，省部级及地方科研项目等, 以核心骨干参与重大研究计划的重点项目和集成项目，国家重点研发计划项目和中国科学院战略先导专项等。