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He is a professor of imaging geodesy with the School of
Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne,
United Kingdom, as well as a professor of imaging geodesy
with the College of Geological Engineering and Geomatics, Chang'an University, China. He is principal investigator
of the Generic Atmospheric Correction Online Service for
interferometric synthetic aperture radar. He is a fellow of
the International Association of Geodesy and an associate
editor for Advances in Space Research and Remote Sensing. He
is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Qiang Xu (xq@cdut.edu.cn) received his B.Sc. degree in
hydrogeology and engineering geology and his M.Sc. degree
in engineering geology from Chengdu College of Geology
(now Chengdu University of Technology), China, in 1992
and 1994, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in engineering
geology from Chengdu University of Technology (CUT) in
1997. He is a professor in the College of Environment and
Civil Engineering, CUT, as well as vice president of CUT
and executive deputy director of the State Key Laboratory
of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection.
As a principal investigator (PI), he developed the real-time
monitoring and early warning system for landslides, which
has successfully provided early warning for several landslides a few hours in advance. He was awarded the first and
second prizes of the State Science and Technology Progress
Award as the leading PI or core participant and has published 10 monographs and more than 400 academic peerreviewed papers.
Roland Bürgmann (burgmann@seismo.berkeley.edu)
received his M.S. degree from the University of Colorado,
Boulder, in 1989 and his Ph.D. degree in geological sciences
from Stanford University, California, in 1993. Following a
postdoctoral appointment at Stanford, he joined the faculty
of the University of California at Davis in 1995. Since 1998,
he has been on the faculty of the University of California at
Berkeley (UC Berkeley), where he is currently a professor of
Earth and planetary science. His research interests include
the integrated use of space geodetic, seismologic, and geologic observations to gain improved understanding of active faults, volcanoes, and landslides. He is a fellow and the
2013 Birch Lecturer of the American Geophysical Union.
He was the recipient of the UC Berkeley Faculty Award for
Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring in 2012 and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize in 2005.
David G. Milledge (david.milledge@ncl.ac.uk) received
his B.Sc. degree in geography from Leeds University, United
Kingdom, in 2003 and his Ph.D. degree in physical geography from Durham University, United Kingdom, in 2008. He
is a geomorphologist with expertise in landslide mechanics, hillslope hydrology, and development of environmental
models. He specializes in development of new models to
examine the drivers and impacts of landslides, development
and application of remote sensing tools to collect landslide
data, and application of these models and data sets to address real problems for those exposed to landslide hazards
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worldwide. He is currently a University Research Fellow in
the School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Newcastle
upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Roberto Tomás (roberto.tomas@ua.es) received his Tech.
Eng. (B.S.) degree in civil engineering, his M.S. degree in
civil engineering, his M.S. degree in geological engineering, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Alicante
(UA), Spain. Currently, he is a full professor in geotechnical engineering with the UA Department of Civil Engineering. He has led or been involved in more than 50 national and international research projects, as well as over
50 research contracts with companies. He is the author of
more than 100 scientific articles and more than 200 proceedings, books, and book chapters. He is director of the
Geotechnical and Structural Engineering research group;
a member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific,
and Cultural Organization Land Subsidence International Initiative; and coordinator of the Spanish working group on land subsidence. For more info, see https://
personal.ua.es/es/roberto-tomas/.
Xuanmei Fan (fxm_cdut@qq.com) received her Ph.D.
degree in engineering geology (geological hazard and geoenvironment) from the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observations, University of Twente, The
Netherlands, in 2013. She is a full professor at the State Key
Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment
Protection, Chengdu University of Technology, China. She
is associate editor of Earth Surface Dynamics and Geoenvironmental Disasters and serves as an editorial board member
of Landslides, the Bulletin of Engineering Geology and Environment, and Journal of Mountain Science as well as a reviewer of
more than 20 journals. She was awarded the Richard Wolters Prize by the International Association for Engineering
Geology and the Environment. She was selected as one
of the 10 best female geologists in China in 2017. She was
awarded by the First Prize for National Science and Technology Achievements in 2014.
Chaoying Zhao (zhaochaoying@163.com) received his
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Chang'an University, Xi'an,
China, in 2002 and 2009, respectively. He is currently a
professor at the College of Geological Engineering and
Geomatics, Chang'an University. His research interests
include advanced interferometric synthetic aperture radar
techniques and their applications in geohazard monitoring and early-warning analysis, including land subsidence,
ground fissures, landslide, and mining subsidence. He is a
Senior Member of the IEEE.
Xiaojie Liu (Xiaojie_Liu_cd@163.com) received his B.S.
degree in surveying and mapping from the Lanzhou University of Technology, China, in 2016 and his M.Sc. degree in
geomatics from Chang'an University, China, in 2018, where
he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree with the College of
Geological Engineering and Geomatics. He received the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students from Chang'an University in 2019. His research interests include interferometric
synthetic aperture radar and its applications on large-area
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