Chaoshui Xu is an Associate Professor of the School of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Sciences, Engineering, and Technology, University of Adelaide. He completed his BSc and MSc in Mining Engineering at Northeast University, China, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and earned his PhD in rock mechanics at the University of Leeds, UK (1993). He has over thirty years of experience working for mining academic institutions and the industry. His research interests cover many areas, including geostatistics, mineral resource evaluation, risk assessment of mining projects, optimal mine design, rock fracture mechanics, stochastic rock fracture modeling, and the modeling of coupled fluid flow, heat transfer and chemical reactions in fractured rock masses.