On November 27, 2025, Dawei Mu successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Biogeochemical processes regulating the spatiotemporal evolution and ecological functions of the groundwater environment in the Jinghuiqu Irrigation District, China" at the School of Water and Environment, Chang’an University, Xi'an, China. He was awarded the title of Doctor of Engineering. Dawei was supervised by Peiyue Liu and Bernard De Baets. He spent more than one year at KERMIT supported by the China Scholarship Council.