**About the Editors**

## **Feng Du**

Feng Du, Associate Professor, is mainly engaged in mine safety engineering, coal rock dynamic disaster prevention and control, safety and emergency management, gas flow theory in coal and other aspects of research. In recent years, more than 40 academic papers of his have been published. Among them, as the first author/correspondent author, 25 academic papers were published in important journals such as Energy, Fuel, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, Science of the Total Environment, International Journal of Coal Science & Technology, and Coal Journal, and 7 invention patents were applied for or authorized. He is currently chairing the sub-topics of the key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the youth project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the general project of the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, the open fund of the National Key Laboratory (key project) and the open fund of the Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education (general project). Providing support for research, he participated in five projects including the sub-topics of the National Key Research and Development Plan and the general project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He served as the guest editor of two SCI journals and the regular reviewer of more than 10 SCI journals. He was awarded the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Safety Science and Engineering Discipline of China Occupational Health Association, and the National Scholarship of Excellent Graduates and Doctoral Students in Beijing.
