About

Introduction on this profile page was provided by the expert for the 2nd IAHR Presidential Lecture, December 5, 2022, and might not be updated afterward. Prof. Cui Peng is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a foreign academician of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He is a leading scientist in physical geography and water and soil conservation and has long been working as the leading professor of the Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He currently serves as the Co-Director General (Chinese side) of China-Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Sciences, Co-Director of Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR), Science Committee Member of IRDR of ISC/UNDRR. He has published more than 300 papers, 7 monographs, and holds 16 patents and 3 software copyrights. Prof. Cui has been long engaged in geo-hazards researches focusing on debris flow, landslide, and dammed lake, as well as water and soil conservation. He has led over 30 major national projects. He has made outstanding achievements in hazard formation and movement mechanism, fostering condition, risk assessment, monitoring and early warning, and comprehensive prevention and control principles. His integrated disaster risk reduction and mitigation theories and techniques have been widely applied in the disaster reduction practice to mega natural hazards in China like Wenchuan Earthquake and Zhouqu Debris Flow, and in other countries, such as earthquakes in Nepal and large dammed lake in Pakistan.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Research Institutes and Centers

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Debris flow and landslide mitigation and control; Water and soil conservation

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