**About the Editors**

**Songdong Shao** (Senior Lecturer): Dr Shao attained his BSc, MSc, and Ph.D. degrees at the Department of Hydraulic Engineering at Tsinghua University. He has worked at the University of Bradford, University of Hong Kong, University of Plymouth, Kyoto University, and Nanyang Technological University, before joining the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Dr Shao's research concentrates on the influence of global warming on coastal disasters. He develops numerical models to solve the hydrodynamic equations to predict natural hazards, involving river and coastal environments. He is well-known for work in the area of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics, a robust mesh-free numerical modeling approach for various free surface flows, with a high citation record of 4000+ in Google Scholar. Dr Shao has served as an Associate Editor for the Coastal Engineering Journal (CEJ) from 2009 to 2019.

**Min Luo** (Professor): Professor Luo received his BEng degree (2010) in Civil Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) and PhD degree (2015) in Ocean Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He worked as a Post-doctor (2015–2017) at NUS and a Lecturer in the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering at Swansea University (2017–2020), before joining the Ocean College at Zhejiang University in 2020. Professor Luo's research concentrates on the computational modelling and laboratory study of wave hydrodynamics, with an emphasis on the extreme wave interactions with the ocean/coastal structures. He is the core developer of the mesh-free Consistent Particle Method (CPM).

**Matteo Rubinato** (Lecturer): Dr Rubinato works in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Environment & Computing at Coventry University, and he is an associate member of the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR). He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in Environmental Engineering at the University of Padova and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2015 at the University of Sheffield. Since then, throughout his academic career, he has conducted research with members at over 25 institutions across Europe, USA, and China with longer periods spent at the University of Colorado Boulder, Sichuan University, Beijing Normal University, and Xi'an University of Technology. His outputs have led to multiple high-quality journal articles (25+), conference proceedings (15+), and a book-chapter. Dr Rubinato is one of the leaders in large-scale physical modeling of urban floods in the UK and the main focus of his research involves novel quantification and explanation of flow processes in sewers and linked urban surfaces. Furthermore, Dr Rubinato's research also explores engineering in the field of environmental fluid mechanics typical of river and coastal environments to develop innovative and useful approaches to help reduce the vulnerability, as well as enhance the resilience, adaptive capacity, and sustainability of environmental systems around the world in the face of increasing challenges, uncertainty, and climate change variability.

**Xing Zheng** (Professor): Prof Zheng received his BEng degree (2003) in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from Harbin Engineering University (HEU), and Ph.D. degree (2010) in Fluid Mechanics from HEU as well. His research concentrates on the numerical simulation and laboratory study of breaking waves, marine hydrodynamics, renewable engineering, and ice–ship–water interactions. He has established very influential works in the development of novel higher-order numerical schemes for the mesh-free Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, especially the incompressible SPH (ISPH) approaches.

**Jaan H. Pu** (Associate Professor): Dr Pu received both his BEng (1st Class Honours) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Bradford in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Since 2008, he has taken up several research and faculty positions at various universities/institutions around the world. He was appointed as a Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Bradford in 2014; as Senior Lecturer in 2017; and as Associate Professor since 2020. Dr Pu's research concentrates on numerical and laboratory approaches to representing various water engineering applications that include the naturally compound riverine flow, sediment transport, scouring, water quality, and vegetated flow. His research outputs have led to several high-quality journal articles (30+), conference proceedings (10+), book-chapters, and an edited book. He is currently supervising 4 Ph.D. students at Bradford (3 as their principal supervisor) to investigate river hydrodynamics and sediment transport challenging applications. He is currently a Visiting Scientist at Tsinghua University and Nanyang Technological University. He has also served as a reviewer for several internationally well-reputed journals.
