Dr. Pengzhi Pan is a researcher, doctoral supervisor, and Director of the Key Laboratory of Geotechnical Mechanics and Engineering Safety. He also serves as an editorial board member and deputy editor in chief of international SCI journal J Rock Mech Geotech Eng, as well as the Secretary General of the International Society of Rock Mechanics' THMC Coupling Process Committee for Fractured Rock Masses. He is also a member of the International Society of Rock Mechanics' Radioactive Waste Disposal Committee and a director of the Tunnel Engineering Branch of the China Highway Society. He has won four first prizes in provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards, as well as the “Qian Qihu Award” from the Chinese Society of Rock Mechanics and Engineering, the Lu Jiaxi Youth Talent Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Outstanding Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth Innovation Promotion Association. His research interests include the study of continuous and discontinuous numerical methods for rock fracture processes, the study of rock fracture mechanisms based on acoustic and optical technologies, the study of temperature seepage stress chemical coupling processes in fractured geological media, and the assessment of brittle failure risks such as rock burst and rock burst during mining and tunnel excavation processes.