Prof. Chun-Qing Li is an expert in time-dependent reliability theory and its application to whole life care of infrastructure, particularly corrosion-prone structures under mixed-mode fracture. He has been a professor of civil engineering since 2006, initially in the UK and then in Australia and China. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers of the UK (FICE) as well as of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust).