Recently, the International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS) announced the list of candidates for Fellow in 2022. Prof. XIAO Yan, Qiushi Chair Professor, Program Director for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Systems Sciences of ZJUI, was selected. This is the highest honor for Prof. XIAO Yan in relevant professional fields since he was elected as a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the American Concrete Institute (ACI). It marks that Prof. XIAO Yan and his team have been highly recognized by international peers for their outstanding achievements in the utilization of bamboo and wood bio-based materials and the research and development of green civil engineering construction. They are also being recognized for their academic contributions in the construction of the theoretical system for the design of bamboo structures and bamboo wood composite structures.
▲ The List of New Fellows in 2022
The International Academy of Wood Science (IAWS), founded in Germany in 1966, is the world’s top academic organization in the field of wood science and biomass. Fellow of the IAWS is the highest academic honor of the academy. The new fellows are recommended by the fellows and elected by all fellows through written deliberation and secret ballot. A total of 5 well-known experts are elected this year.
▲ Letter of appointment
Prof. XIAO Yan, an expert in structural engineering, joined ZJUI in June 2018. He received his bachelor's degree in Engineering from Tianjin University in 1982 and received his master’s and PhD degree in Engineering from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan in 1986 and 1989 respectively. He has served as a tenured full professor in the University of Southern California, Dean of College of Civil Engineering of Nanjing Tech University and Hunan University and is now a research professor of the Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of Southern California. Prof. XIAO Yan's research includes the seismic and anti-explosion design and reinforcement of engineering structures; structural application of high-performance materials and fiber reinforced plastics (FRP); structural experiment method; the development and application of new steel, wood and bamboo composite structures and modern bamboo structures. He has published more than 400 technical publications, including more than 150 papers in international SCI journals, many of which are groundbreaking and influential, and have been highly cited by scholars around the world. Since 2014, he has been selected into the "Civil and Structural Engineering" category list of China's highly cited scholars by Elsevier for many times. This year, he was selected into the World's Top 2% Scientists issued by Stanford University. To promote environmental and ecological friendliness, he has been committed to developing modern bamboo structures in recent years. He has a number of patents and internationally awarded GluBam ® Technology. The research and application of modern bamboo structure was rated as the best innovation in 2008 by American magazine Progress in Science and Technology. In May 2022, Prof. XIAO Yan's monograph Engineered Bamboo Structures published by Taylor&Francis CRC Press is the first monograph on modern engineering bamboo structures in the world. In 2021, Prof. XIAO Yan founded the Zhejiang University (Ninghai) Joint Research Center for Bio-based Materials and Carbon Neutral Development. At present, his team is engaged in a number of groundbreaking research and engineering practices.
