 | Prof. Junxian ZhaoSouth China University of Technology, ChinaJunxian Zhao is a professor, doctoral supervisor, and assistant dean of School of Civil Engineering, South China University of Technology. He is awarded the title of national high-level youth talent, and is the recipient of Guangdong Provincial Excellent Youth Team Fund, and Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Youth Scientific Fund. His academic positions include member of the Earthquake Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering Branch of the Chinese Civil Engineering Society, member of the Earthquake Engineering Committee of the Chinese Earthquake Society, and member of the Professional Committee of Earthquake Prevention and Disaster Reduction of Infrastructure Engineering of the Seismological Society of China. His main Research Interests includes steel structures, modular integrated construction, structural seismic and passive energy dissipation systems, and seismic resilient structures, ect. His professional membership includes the editorial board of the journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the young editorial board of the journal of Earthquake Engineering and Resilience. In recent years, he has presided more than 10 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and provincial projects such as Guangdong Outstanding Youth Foundation. He has published more than 50 papers in high-level journals which have been cited by more than 1000 times. One paper was selected as one of the top 10 hot papers of the year in the journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. As the first awardee, he has won the first prize of Hebei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award in 2019. |
 | Prof. Yanwen LiSouth China University of Technology, ChinaYanwen Li is a Professor at South China University of Technology, a National Young Talent, and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow, serving as the group assistant of the State Key Laboratory. His research focuses on high-performance steel structures, metal additive and subtractive manufacturing, and marine infrastructure. He is a core member of the State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Building and Urban Science, the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Modern Civil Engineering Technology, and the Guangdong Provincial Metal Additive Manufacturing Engineering Technology Research Center. He serves as a review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), a thesis reviewer for the Ministry of Education, and a youth editorial board member of Progress in Steel Building Structures. He teaches courses including Engineering Mechanics, Green Building Materials and Low-Carbon Construction, Energy Infrastructure, and Advanced Steel Structures. He currently supervises 4 doctoral and 7 master's students. He leads multiple research projects, including the NSFC Young Scientists Fund, the Guangdong "Pearl River Talent Program" project, Guangdong Natural Science Foundation projects, a Guangzhou basic research project, and the SCUT "Double First-Class" research startup fund. He has participated in two sub-projects of the National Key R&D Program. He contributed to the national standard transformation of ISO 17607:2023 and reviewed standards on Fe-SMA dampers. He has published extensively in journals such as Engineering Structures and Journal of Constructional Steel Research, and holds three authorized invention patents. |