Jianfu Shao

Short Bio:

Professor Shao has received his doctoral degree in 1987 from University of Lille in France. He is currently an excellent-class professor and heading the geomechanics research team at this university. Professor Shao has developed a series of theoretical, experimental and numerical studies on various topics, in particular, multi-scale modeling, mechanics of saturated and partially saturated porous materials, damage mechanics and plasticity, thermo-hydromechanical and chemical coupling. His research team results have been widely applied to various engineering applications such petroleum industry, geological disposal of nuclear waste and sequestration of acid gas, unconventional oil and gas engineering, geothermal engineering and hydraulic power engineering. He was the principal investigator of more than thirty national and international projects. He is an overseas expert of the Chinese Academy of Science. He was a Changjiang Scholar Chair professor and received a NSFC overseas outstanding youth fund. He was the optic PI of a China State 973 project and is currently the PI of a China State Key R&D project. He is an associated editor of two major international journals (IJRMMS, EJECE) and a member of editorial board for three other top international journals (IJP, COGE, NAG). He has received an excellent contributions Award (2011) from the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG). He is co-editor of 6 books and delivered 19 keynotes lectures. He author and co-author of 24 chapters in books, more than 200 peer-reviewed SCI journal papers, with more than 3000 citations (web of science, without self-citations) and a h-index of 33.