主要从事水文循环过程与水资源管理、山区及寒旱区生态水文学与陆面过程研究。国家杰出青年基金获得者，入选中国科学院人才计划、“新世纪百千万人才工程”国家级人选、四川省天府青城计划科技领军人才以及四川省科学与技术带头人等。现任四川大学山区河流保护与治理全国重点实验室副主任，兼任四川省政府参事、中国生态学会常务理事及生态水文专业委员会主任、冰冻圈科学学会常务理事及寒区生态专业委员会主任、山地学报副主编以及生态学报、地理科学、冰川冻土、JMS等国内外多个学术刊物编委等。先后主持国家自然科学基金重点项目（5项）、国家研发计划项目以及国家973计划课题等20余项。成果以第一完成人获得省部级科技成果奖6项，并获得国际水环境联盟McKee奖和中国科学院优秀教师奖等。发表学术论文380余篇，SCI收录论文170余篇，出版专著9部；自2020年以来，连续4年入选爱思唯尔中国高被引科学家榜单。
主要从事水文循环过程与水资源管理、山区及寒旱区生态水文学与陆面过程研究。
第一完成人获得省部级科技进步和自然科学奖5项，其中一等奖1项、二等奖2项； 获得2009年度国际水环境联盟（WEF）McKee奖。新世纪百千万人才工程国家级人选；国家自然科学杰出青年基金获得者；中国科学院“朱李月华优秀教师”奖；四川省学术与技术带头人。
1.Chunlin Song, Shaoda Liu, Genxu Wang*, Liwei Zhang, Judith A. Rosentreter,Gang Zhao, Xiangyang Sun, Yuanzhi Yao, Cuicui Mu, Shouqin Sun, Zhaoyong Hu, Shan Lin,et al.2024.Inland water greenhouse gas emissions offset theterrestrial carbon sink in the northern cryosphere.Science Advances. 10, eadp0024.
2.Li, Y., Wang, G.*, Sun, S., Lin, S., Huang, P., Xiao, J., et al. (2024). Methane emissions from the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau ponds and lakes: Roles of ice thaw and vegetation zone.Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38(4), e2024GB008106. https://doi. org/10.1029/2024GB008106
3.Guo Linmao, Wang Genxu*, Song Chunlin, Sun Shouqin, Li Kai, Li Jinlong,2024.Development of a modular distributed hydro-thermal coupled hydrological model for cold regions.Journal of Hydrology644 (2024) 132099
4.Wang, Z., Sun, S., Wang, G*., & Song, C. (2024). Spatial temporal differentiation of supra and sub-permafrost groundwater contributions to river runoff in the Eurasian Arctic and Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau permafrost regions.Water Resources Research,60, e2023WR035913.
5.Li, J., Wang, G. *, Song, C. et al.2024.Recent intensified erosion and massive sediment deposition in Tibetan Plateau rivers.Nature Communications15, 722 (2024).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44982-0
6.Huang, P., Wang, G. *, Guo, L., Mello, C. R., Li, K., Ma, J., & Sun, S. (2023). Most global gauging stations present biased estimations of total catchment discharge.Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2023GL104253. https://doi. org/10.1029/2023GL10425
7.Hu, Z., Sun, S., Sun, X., Lin, S., Song, C., & Wang, G*. (2023). Controlling factors of the spatial-temporal fluctuations in evapotranspiration along an elevation gradient across humid montane ecosystems.Water Resources Research, 59, e2022WR033228. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022WR033228
8.Sun, X., Zhang, X., Wang, G., Hu, Z., Song, C., Lin, S., et al. (2023). An increasing effect of soil moisture on semiempirical water-use efficiency models from wet to dry climate regions.Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128, e2022JG007347.
9.Fei Wang, Genxu Wang*, Junfang Cui *, Li Guo, et al., 2023. Hillslope-scale variability of soil water potential over humid alpine forests: Unexpected high contribution of time-invariant component.Journal of Hydrology617:129036
10.Guo Linmao, Huang Kewei, Genxu Wang⁎, Shan Lin, 2022. Development and evaluation of temperature-induced variable source area runoff generation model.Journal of Hydrology610: 127894.
11.Juying Sun, Genxu Wang *, Xiangyang Sun, Zhaoyong Hu, Shan Lin, Fei Wang, Yi Yang (2022). New cognition on the response of reference evapotranspiration to climate change in China using an independent climatic driver system.Agricultural Water Management262: 107445.
12.Yang Li, Genxu Wang⁎, Haijian Bing, et al., 2021. Watershed scale patterns and controlling factors of ecosystem respiration and methane fluxes in a Tibetan alpine grassland.Agricultural and Forest Meteorology306, 108451.
13.Song, C., Wang, G.*, Mao, T., Huang, K., Sun, X., Hu, Z., et al. (2020). Spatiotemporal variability and sources of DIC in permafrost catchments of the Yangtze River source region: insights from stable carbon isotope and water chemistry.Water Resources Research, 55, e2019WR025343.
14.Wang, G., Lin, S., Hu, Z., Lu, Y., Sun, X., & Huang, K. (2020). Improving actual evapotranspiration estimation integrating energy consumption for ice phase change across the Tibetan Plateau.Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2019JD031799.
15.Lin, S., Wang, G.*, Feng, J., Dan, L., Sun, X., Hu, Z., et al. (2019). A carbon flux assessment driven by environmental factors over the Tibetan Plateau and various permafrost regions.Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 124, 1132–1147.
16.Hu, Z., Wang, G.⁎, Sun, X., Zhu, M., Song, C., Huang, K., & Chen, X. (2018). Spatial-temporal patterns of evapotranspiration along an elevation gradient on Mount Gongga, Southwest China.Water Resources Research, 54. doi.org/10.1029/2018WR022645
17.Wang Genxu, Mao Tianxu, Chang Juan, Song Chunlin, Huang Kewei. Processes of runoff generation operating during the spring and autumn seasons in a permafrost catchment on semi-arid plateaus.Journal of Hydrology550 (2017) 307–317
18.Chang Juan, Wang Genxu⁎, Mao Tianxu. Simulation and prediction of suprapermafrost groundwater level variation in response to climate change using a neural network model.Journal of Hydrology529 (2015) 1211–1220
19.Wang Genxu, Liu Guangsheng, Li Chunjie, Yang Yan. The variability of soil thermal and hydrological dynamics with vegetation cover in a permafrost region.Agricultural and Forest Meteorology,2012,162-163: 44-57
20.Wang Genxu, Liu Guangsheng, Li Chunjie, 2012. Effects of changes in alpine grassland vegetation cover on hillslope hydrological processes in a permafrost watershed.Journal of Hydrology444–445: 22–33
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先后主持和参加国家973计划、国家自然基金项目、中科院重大项目以及省部级科研项目20余项。