Prof. Yonggang Ge is a professor at the Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Earth Surface Process, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he got his PhD. He obtained his Master's degree from the School of Resources, Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, and his Bachelor of Science from the Department of Biology, Northwestern University. He mainly engaged in debris flow and mountain disaster formation, ancient disaster recovery and reconstruction, debris flow erosion and sand production research, and research and development of debris flow disaster prevention, reduction, and relief technologies.