Dr. Lunyang Zhao is an Associate Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Civil Engineering and Transportation, South China University of Technology (SCUT). He received his Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering from Hohai University in 2019, with joint training at the University of Lille, France (supervised by Academician Jianfu Shao). He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at SCUT under the mentorship of Academician Yuanming Lai. Dr. Zhao’s research focuses on multi-physics and multi-scale modeling of geomaterials, with a particular interest in micromechanics, plastic-damage coupling, phase-field fracture theory, and energy geotechnical engineering. He has developed a systematic "microscopic mechanism → multi-scale theory → engineering prediction" research paradigm. His work has led to innovative homogenization-based constitutive models, high‑performance numerical algorithms, and a physics‑driven multi-scale phase‑field fracture framework for rocks. He has published over 60 SCI papers as first/corresponding author in top journals such as JMPS, IJP, IJRMMS, JGR: Solid Earth, and Proc. R. Soc. A. He serves as a youth editorial board member for several international journals and holds committee positions in major Chinese rock mechanics societies.