**About the Editors**

#### **Longjun Dong**

Longjun Dong, Ph.D, is a Professor and the Director of the Department of Safety Science and Engineering, Central South University, China. His research interests include rock mechanics, engineering seismicity, and applied geophysics in mining engineering. He obtained his PhD, MSc, and BSc in 2013, 2009, and 2007, respectively. He was appointed as Professor, Associate Professor, and Lecturer at Central South University in 2017, 2015, and 2013, respectively. He was invited as a research assistant at the Australian Center for Geomechanics (ACG) from 2012 to 2013. He presided over 15 projects of the National Key Research and Development Program, International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), etc. He is the recipient of the NSFC for Excellent Young Scholars (2018), the Young Elite Scientist sponsored by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) (2016), the leading talent of Science and Technology Innovation of Hunan Province (2021), and the Distinguished Young Scholars Fund of Hunan Province (2018). He has 138 publications in peer-reviewed journals, with 4159 citations and 37 h-index in Google Scholar, and has 45 Chinese patents. He is an individual ISRM Member and an IEEE Senior Member. He is a Topical Editor-in-Chief of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer nature); an Associate Editor of Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letter, and Shock and Vibration; an Editorial Board Member of Safety Science (Elsevier), Soils and Foundations (Elsevier, the official journal of the Japanese Geotechnical Society), Scientific Reports (Springer nature), and International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks; an Editorial Advisory Board Member of Archives of Mining Sciences, and a guest editor of Induced Seismicity in Scientific Reports. He was selected into the list of "2020 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier)" and the "Top 2% of Scientists in the World (Stanford University)".

#### **Yanlin Zhao**

Yanlin Zhao, professor and doctoral supervisor, is the Deputy Dean of the School of Resources Environment and Safety Engineering, Hunan University of Science and Technology. He mainly studies rock mechanics and rock ground control, multi-field coupling theory and the engineering response of deep mining rock mass. He presided over and completed two general programs of National Natural Science Foundation of China, more than 20 scientific research projects, such as provincial and ministerial level and enterprise cooperation, and participated in the basic theoretical research on the mechanism and prevention of coal mine water inrush (973 Program) and the key program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Arizona, a young backbone teacher in ordinary colleges and universities in Hunan Province, an outstanding expert in Xiangtan City, an outstanding doctoral dissertation winner in Hunan Province, a Xiangjiang scholar at Hunan University of Science and Technology, a director of the Hunan Rock Mechanics and Engineering Society, a national technology forecasting expert of the Ministry of Science and Technology, an excellent master thesis advisor in Hunan Province, and a guest editor-in-chief of the international SCI journals "Frontiers in Earth Science" and "Geofluids". He was selected in the 2020 Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Scholars and Top 2% Global Top Scientists in the field of "Mining Engineering". He has published more than 100 academic papers, 3 academic monographs, of which more than 80 papers were indexed by SCI and EI, 6 papers in international Top journals, 9 papers in the world's top 1% ESI highly cited papers, 4 hot papers, and 1 paper in "Frontrunner 5000" top articles in outstanding S&T journals of China (F5000), and 1 paper won the 2019 Excellent Paper of the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering—Chen Zongji Award.

#### **Wenxue Chen**

Wenxue Chen, Adjunct Professor of Sherbrook University, is Industrial Research Chair of Canadian Natural Science and Engineering Research Fund (NSERC) "Innovative Composite Fiber Materials Concrete Engineering Application Project" and the Principal Scientist of SFTec. His main research fields include safety technology and engineering, underground engineering, structural engineering and engineering application of new composite materials, etc. He is a committee member of the Infrastructure Products Committee of the American Precast Association (NPCA-TIPC), a committee member of the American Composites Manufacturing Industry Council (ACMA), and an associate editor of the International Journal of Safety Science (IJSS). He has published 65 academic papers, of which more than 20 were indexed by SCI. Additionally, he has had 25 authorized patents and won a number of provincial and ministerial awards.
