Prof. Zhang Wei was born in Yancheng of Jiangsu Provnice He graduated at Hohai University in 2001 with a major in Harbour and Waterway Engineering, and received a PhD degree in Harbour, Coastal and Offshore engineering at Hohai University in 2006. From November 2011 to November 2012, he went to Utrecht University of Netherlands for a collaborative research visit. From 2014 to 2016, he was invited to carry out EU scientific research cooperation research at the Wageningen University of Netherlands (every year for three months). He was successively selected as the 333 High-level Talents Training Project in Jiangsu Province, the high-level talents training object of Six Talent Peaks in Jiangsu Province, and the outstanding young teachers of Young Talent Project in Jiangsu Province's universities.

He is the vice dean of College of Harbour, Coastal and Offshore Engineering, the member of Coastal Education & Research Foundation (CERF) and the member of American Geophysical Union（AGU. He is the fixed member of State key laboratory of hydrology and water resources and hydraulic engineering science in the direction of comprehensive management and protection of estuaries and coasts.

He has been engaged in the study of dynamic topography evolution of estuary delta for a long time. In recent years, under the national major needs, he focused on the research work in the dynamic evolution of water and sediment in estuaries and coasts, the influence of estuarine salt intrusion, the transport and exchange mechanism of water and sediment in tidal inlets, etc. He has led and participated in more than 30 projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China research project, the Sino-Dutch Joint Fund research project, the Ministry of Water Resources' Public Welfare Project, the Ministry of Communications Key Scientific and Technological Research Project, and the Guangdong Provincial Communications Department's Scientific and Technological Research Project. He has published more than 90 papers in academic journals and conferences at home and abroad. Nearly 40 papers related to estuarine and coastal engineering have been published in the high impacted  SCI journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, Geomorphology, Coastal Engineering, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, Continental Shelf Research, Ocean Engineering, Journal of Hydrology, Marine Geology, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change. The relevant research results have been cited and reported by the Nature. The research results have been successfully applied in the development of high-grade waterway networks in the Pearl River Delta. He participated in the project Key Technologies and Applications of Multi-objective Hydraulic Regulation for Complex River Networks, was awarded the second prize for scientific and technological progress by the State in 2014.