Editor-in-Chief
Junfeng Zhang
Professor at the School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, and Vice President of the university. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Young Scholars Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the National Youth Talent Program. He also serves as:
Secretary-General of the Geological Education Steering Committee under the Ministry of Education of China
Chair of the Committee on Experimental Mineral and Rock Geochemistry of the Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (CSMPG)
Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
His research focuses on structural geology and experimental petrology. He has led major national projects, including the National Key R&D Program of China and multiple NSFC grants (Distinguished Young Scholars, Key, and General projects). He has published over 100 papers in leading SCIE journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, Earth and Planetary Science Letters (EPSL), Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth (JGR-SE), Chinese Science Bulletin, and Science China. His honors include the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Award, and the Special Prize of the Hubei Provincial Teaching Achievement Award, among others.
Executive Editors-in-Chief
Honghu Zhu
Professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, and Director of the Institute of Earth Exploration and Sensing at Nanjing University. He is a recipient of both the Distinguished Young Scholars Award and the Excellent Young Scholars Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He also serves as Executive Deputy Director of the Jiangsu Engineering Research Center for Earth Sensing and Disaster Control, and Executive Vice President of the Geological and Geotechnical Engineering Intelligent Monitoring Branch of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering. His research focuses on geological engineering and rock mechanics.
He has published two monographs, three textbooks, and over 150 papers, including more than 100 papers indexed by SCIE. He holds 23 national invention patents and three software copyrights. His contributions have been recognized with numerous honors, including the First Prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, the First Prize of the Engineering Construction Scientific and Technological Progress Award, the Innovation Achievement Award for Industry–University–Research Cooperation of China, the Youth Geological Science and Technology Award of the Geological Society of China, the Gu Dezhen Youth Science and Technology Award, and the Qian Qihu Award of the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering.
Professor Zhu is currently Executive Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Geoengineering and Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology. He also serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Geotechnics (indexed in SCIE and EI), Smart Construction and Sustainable Cities, and International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering (EI), and as an editorial board member of Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (SCI, EI), Deep Underground Science and Engineering (EI), Rock and Soil Mechanics (EI), Journal of Basic Science and Engineering (EI), Journal of Engineering Geology, and The Chinese Journal of Geological Hazard and Control.
He has led more than 30 research projects funded by the National Key R&D Program of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, and the Doctoral Fund of the Ministry of Education. In addition, he has participated in over 10 major national projects, including the National 973 Program, the National Science and Technology Support Program, and NSFC Key Projects. His research findings have been successfully applied to major engineering projects such as landslide monitoring in the Three Gorges Reservoir area, debris flow early warning in the Wenchuan earthquake zone, health assessment of water transfer tunnels in the Pearl River Delta, slope treatment along the Panzhihua–Tianquan section of the Beijing–Kunming Expressway, distributed observation in scientific boreholes at Jiajika lithium mine in western Sichuan, and safety monitoring of metro tunnels in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Suzhou, achieving significant economic and social impact.
Research interests: Geological and geotechnical interface effects; multi-scale characterization and mitigation of geological hazards; intelligent sensing and risk assessment for underground space.
Detian Yan
Professor at China University of Geosciences. His research focus on sedimentology and petroleum geology. He is the leader of the Innovation Research Group funded by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province and a recognized Science and Technology Leading Talent by the Ministry of Natural Resources of China.
He has presided over four projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one National Major Science and Technology Project, one National Key R&D Program project, and more than 20 applied research projects in oilfield technology. He has published 91 papers, including 36 papers indexed in SCIE as the first author or corresponding author. He has also authored five monographs and two textbooks, and contributed to two national standards.
Professor Yan serves as Scientific Editor or Editorial Board Member for Journal of Earth Science, Earth Science, Bulletin of Geological Science and Technology, Acta Petrolei Sinica, and Natural Gas Geoscience. He is also a reviewer for more than ten international journals, including Geology, Chemical Geology, Marine and Petroleum Geology, and Science in China.
