Prof. Dr. Hong Guan is a Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University's Gold Coast campus. She holds a PhD in Structural Mechanics from Griffith University (1997). She is the research leader of the “Building Science and Construction Innovation” group within Griffith’s Cities Research Institute. Prof. Guan is an appointed member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts. She also serves as a Founding Steering Committee and Executive Committee Member of the Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM), the Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, and International Steering Committee Member of the East-Asia Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction (EASEC). Her research has been supported by over AUD 12.9M in funding from the ARC, industry partners, government bodies, and the university. Her current research focuses on the progressive collapse resistance capacities of concrete flat plate structures and mass timber frame buildings. She is internationally recognised as among the world's top 2% scientists based on citations (Elsevier BV), and is among the world’s top ten most active researchers in the disproportionate/progressive collapse research of concrete structures (Scopus). She has authored/co-authored over 370 publications, including 2 authored books by Springer, 170 refereed journal papers, and over 190 refereed conference papers.