Prof. Junxian Zhao

South China University of Technology, China

Biography: 

Junxian 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.