Meet the team
Staff
![Professor Qiuhua Liang](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/qiuhua-liang160x160.jpg)
Multi-hazard modelling, disaster risk assessment and management
![Dr Huili Chen](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/huili-chen-160x160.jpg)
Remote sensing, GIS and data analytics for disaster risk reduction
![Dr Long Chen](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/long-chen-160x160.jpg)
Digital twin, computer vision, data-driven techniques and infrastructure resilience
![Professor Ksenia Chmutina](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/ksenia-chmutina-160x160.jpg)
Processes of urban disaster risk creation and systemic implications of sustainability and resilience in the context of neoliberalism
![Dr Varuna De Silva](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/varuna-de-silva-160x160.jpg)
Multi-agent reinforcement learning, deep generative modelling, and neuro-symbolic approaches for computer vision
![Dr Tom Dijkstra](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/tom-dijkstra-160x160.jpg)
Geohazards and interactions between geohazards and communities
![Dr Tim Marjoribanks](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/tim-majoribanks-160x160.jpg)
Numerical models and analysis methods to understand the hydrodynamics of open channel flows
![Dr Asya Natapov](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/asya-natapov-160x160.jpg)
Urban planning, spatial cognition, and complexity
![Dr Alister Smith](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/alister-smith-160x160.jpg)
Geotechnical engineering, slope stability, smart infrastructure, monitoring
Chair Fellow
![Jinghua Jiang](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/profile-_0003_Jinghua-Jiang.jpg)
![Xue Tong](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/profile-_0005_Xue-Tong.jpg)
![Haoyang Qin](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/profile-_0004_Haoyang-Qin.jpg)
![Xuejing Li](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/profile-_0000_Xuejing-Li.jpg)
![Xiuchun Liang](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/profile-_0001_Xiuchun-Liang.jpg)
![Jingxiao Wu](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/profile-_0002_Jingxiao-Wu.jpg)
![Monia Del Pinto](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/Monia-Del-Pinto-sq.jpg)
![Yuanyuan Wu](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/yuanyuan-wu-sq.jpg)
Visiting Scholars
![Yangmei Wang](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/profile-Yangmei-Wang.jpg)
North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power
![Xiaoming Guo](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/Xiaoming-Guo-sq.jpg)
Henan University, China
Former Members
![Dr Mingzhu Wang](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/mingzhu-wang-160x160.jpg)
City University of Hong Kong
![Professor Neil Dixon](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/neil-dixon-160x160.jpg)
![Dr Falli Palaiologou](/media/media/schoolanddepartments/abce/images/unescochairprofiles/falli-palaiologou-160x160.jpg)