Chenxi Tong is an Associate Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China. He received his BSc (2013) and MSc (2016) in Engineering from Central South University and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Technology Sydney in 2020. He is mainly engaged in the research of coarse-grained soil mechanical properties (particle fragmentation, intrinsic relationship), soil erosion and so on.