Xu Longjun, male, Ph.D., doctoral supervisor, Tier-2 Professor. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Precision Blasting at Jianghan University, Vice President of the Hubei (Wuhan) Institute of Explosion and Blasting Technology, and Director of the Institute of Civil Engineering Disaster Prevention. He has been honored as a Distinguished Professor under the Hubei Chutian Scholar Program and selected as a Wuhan Talent. His research and teaching focus on disaster prevention and mitigation engineering.
Previously, he was the academic leader in Civil Engineering at Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai), where he held a tenured professorship and was recognized as a Taishan Scholar Distinguished Expert in Shandong Province. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. His professional affiliations include membership in the Seismological Society of America (SSA), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the Seismological Society of China. He serves as a council member of the Strong Motion Observation Branch of the Seismological Society of China, a committee member of the Earthquake Emergency Response Committee, and a council member of the Bridge Steel Structure Branch of the China Steel Construction Society.
Xu Longjun has led the compilation of several technical standards, including Shandong Province's Code for Seismic Performance-Based Design of Buildings and the China Engineering Construction Standardization Association's Standard for Seismic Performance-Based Design of Prefabricated Buildings and Standard for Determining Design Parameters of Seismic Fault Action. He was the Chinese collaborator for the U.S. National Science Foundation's major basic research project, The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI)—Computational Modeling and Simulation Center (2015–2019). Additionally, he serves as a peer reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and provincial science foundations (Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, etc.), as well as for international journals such as ASCE Journal, SDEE, EEEV, and STRUCTURE.
With a long-term commitment to advancing theories, methods, and applications in disaster prevention and mitigation for building structures and infrastructure, Xu Longjun has achieved innovative results in next-generation design ground motion theory, near-fault seismic motion, seismic fault action, and experimental equipment development for active fault simulation. His contributions have earned him the National Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class), two Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards (First Class), one Provincial Higher Education Science and Technology Award (First Class), and the China Development Bank Technological Innovation Award.
He has led four NSFC projects and participated in four others, in addition to contributing to four major national research initiatives (including the 973 Program and Key R&D Projects). He has authored four academic books, edited three provincial and association technical standards, and published over 110 papers, with more than 80 indexed in SCI/EI. He holds over 10 authorized domestic and international patents and software copyrights. His research outcomes have been adopted or referenced in national, industrial, and local seismic design codes, promoting the application of performance-based seismic design in building structures and delivering significant socio-economic benefits.
