**Chuangang Fan**

Dr. Chuangang Fan graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2015. Before that, he spent half a year as a visiting scholar at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. In 2018, he was employed as a professor at Central South University (CSU) and, now, is the deputy dean of the department of fire protection engineering. During the past 10 years, he has been committed to the fundamental and applied research on tunnel fire dynamics and smoke control methods under extreme conditions, i.e. strong wind and heavy rainfall. He received project fundings from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (less than 20% of the funding proportion) and the Excellent Young Scientist Fund of Hunan Province. He has published 59 SCI papers as the first or corresponding author. Seven of them are ESI highly cited papers or the most cited papers in the field of tunnel fire in the last 10 years. His papers have been cited over 2500 times by many famous scholars including the international association chairman, academicians and periodical editors. He has received many rewards including the First-Class Prize of the Science and Technology Innovation Award of the China Fire Protection Association. He has given 14 oral presentations at major academic conferences, including the International Symposium on Combustion and the Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology. He is the reviewer for more than 60 internationally renowned journals and conferences and has been awarded the Outstanding Reviewer award for six international journals. As a superviser, he is supervising five Ph.D. students and eight master's students, of which three of them won national scholarships (the highest level of scholarship for college students in China) and two won the President Scholarship of CSU.
