Dr. Dongming Yan is a professor of civil engineering at Zhejiang University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Dalian University of Technology, China, in 2006 and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA, from 2007 to 2011. After that, he joined Zhejiang University as faculty. He has been engaged in the study of structural engineering since 2000 and made important innovations in the dynamic behavior of concrete materials and in marine reinforced concrete structures. He has been a primary investigator of 17 research projects, including three projects from the National Science Foundation of China (one for Excellent Young Scholars, one General Project, and one for Young Scholars), one subproject from the National Science and Technology Support Program of China, and one project for Distinguished Young Scholars funded by the Zhejiang Province Natural Science Foundation. He has published more than 90 academic papers in proceedings or journals. As a main member, the applicant won the first prize for Scientific and Technological Progress in Colleges and Universities by the Ministry of Education of China.