Faculty Profile

    Xianfeng Liu, Full Professor of Department of Road and Railway Engineering in Southwest Jiaotong University, Member of ISSGE and CISMGE-CCES. He obtained his Ph.D degree in 2010 at Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France, and then joined Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical  Science and Engineering and Australian  Research Centre of Excellence in Geotechnical Science and Engineering in 2011 until  the end of 2017 when he was appointed a professorship  by Southwest Jiaotong University.  His  research  interests  span  from  unsaturated soil mechanics (particularly  expansive  soils) to static and dynamic behaviour of high-speed railway embankments over reinforced grounds as well as to geoenvironmental  engineering. Over the past years,  Dr. Liu has been involved  in many competitive research projects funded by The French National Research Agency, Australian  Research Council  and the former Ministry of Railway, China.  So far, he has published about 60 papers in English and Chinese,  including 30 papers  published  in  flagship  journals in geotechnical field，mainly in Geotechnique, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Applied clay science, Computers and Geotechnics, Acta Geotechnica, Geotechnical testing Journal, Rock mechanics and rock engineering. In addition, he also serves as the Editorial Board Member of Soils and foundations and a reviewer for more than 15 reputable journals in the field of  geotechnical and geoenviromental engineering, as well as Academic-chair of Rail Transit, World Transport Convention, Beijing, 2018.