Recently, Professor Xu Weiya of Hohai University (HHU) received a letter from the European Academy of Sciences congratulating him on his election as a Non-EU Fellow.
Professor Xu previously served as Vice President of HHU and Dean of the Institut Hohai-Lille. He is currently a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at HHU's College of Civil and Transportation Engineering. He graduated from HHU in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology and later obtained his Ph.D. in Science from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2023, he was conferred a Doctor of Engineering Honoris Causa from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and was appointed as an Honorary Professor at the University of Lille, France. He concurrently serves as an Executive Committee member of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), a Council Member of the China Education Association for International Exchange, Vice Chairman of the Landslide and Engineering Slope Branch of Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, and Vice Chairman of the Jiangsu Civil Engineering and Architectural Society. He also serves as the Director of the Innovation Base for Introducing Talents of Multi-coupled Mechanics in Major Hydropower Engineering approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, and Director of the Joint International Laboratory of Geomechanics and Environment of Jiangsu Province.
Professor Xu has long been engaged in theoretical innovation in hydraulic rock mechanics and disaster prevention, geotechnical engineering, and hydraulic structures. He has made significant academic achievements in fundamental rock mechanics theory, anisotropic mechanics, multi-field coupling mechanics, rock hydraulics, rock rheology, physical modeling and numerical methods for rock mechanics, landslide disaster risk prevention, monitoring, and early warning. He has led or participated in specialized theoretical research and applications for the Three Gorges Dam foundation rock engineering on the Yangtze River, Baihetan high dam rock engineering on the Jinsha River, Jinping high slope stability on the Yalong River, and Nuozhadu slope and underground engineering on the Lancang River. He has made outstanding contributions to theoretical research and engineering practice in major hydropower projects with high dams and large reservoirs on the Yangtze River, Yellow River, Lancang River, Yalong River, and Jinsha River. He has published 15 academic monographs, been granted over 110 invention patents and more than 30 software copyrights and published over 500 academic papers with 9,845 citations (H-index of 52). He has received more than 20 national and provincial/ministerial scientific and technological awards, co-supervised 17 post-doctoral researchers, and trained 80 doctoral graduates.
The European Academy of Sciences (EurASc), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, is an important international, independent, non-profit, non-governmental, academically-oriented institution in Europe. It primarily consists of outstanding scholars who represent the European academic community's standards in science, technology, engineering, humanities, and social sciences and have achieved internationally recognized accomplishments. Fellowship candidates are nominated by national academies of sciences in EU countries or by existing Fellows of the EurASc and are awarded fellowship status after rigorous evaluation.
