Professor Fawu Wang, PhD, Tongji University,
UNESCO Chair on Geoenvironmental Disaster Reduction,
a guest of Faculty of Civil Engineering, Univ. of Rijeka,
with three coworkers, his doctoral student Bo Zhang,
and two younger students You Qi and Shengzhe Cao,
as part of the bilateral project
Study on the mechanism of rainfall-induced landslides,
on Tuesday, 30 September 2025 at 14:30
will deliver lecture
Landslide motion mechanisms: field investigation, experimental study and numerical prediction,
40 minutes long, after which his coworkers will deliver lectures 20 minutes each.
The lecture can be followed at the Faculy of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka,
or through Zooma (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81421921883 Meeting ID: 814 2192 1883)
Dr. Fawu Wang is chairholder of UNESCO Chair on Geoenvironmental Disaster Reduction, and professor on geo-disaster reduction in College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, China. He has been working on challenging problems in landslides, such as the mechanism of rapid and long runout landslides, the transformation mechanism from
landsliding to flow-sliding, motion prediction of landslides, motion behavior of submarine landslides, and landslides triggered by earthquakes, heavy rainfall, and water impoundment. His primary research interests are to clarify the common mechanisms of landslides initiated by different triggers, and to find a way to predict the occurrence and motion of landslides, for the purpose of landslide disaster mitigation. Besides the teaching and research activities, he is also working as the Director-General of the International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction.