Prof. Shuitao Gu was born in 1979 (Jiangsu Province). He graduated from the School of Civil Engineering, Hohai University in 2001 and received his Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from the University of East Paris in 2008. He also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the French National Institute of Science (CNRS). He is mainly engaged in research concerning meso-mechanics, interfacial mechanics, computational mechanics and so on. He has published 26 articles in SCI journals (JMPS, CST, IJSS, IJES, etc.).