First World Congress of International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (1st ICGdR World Congress)

Anthony LEUNG

Professor Leung is a Full Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research expertise is unsaturated soil-vegetation interaction with emphasis on geotechnical engineering applications such as slope stabilisation. Professor Leung has published more than 160 SCI journal articles in the subject of soil-vegetation interaction and co-authors a textbook ‘Plant Soil Slope Interaction’ published by Taylor & Francis. He is the awardee of many major international awards, including the 2025 Scott Sloan Best Paper Award (best paper in Computers and Geotechnics), 2022 Geotechnical Research Medal (best paper in Geotechnique), 2022 Outstanding Young Geotechnical Engineer Award of the ISSMGE, 2021 R. M. Quigley Award (best paper in Canadian Geotechnical Journal), 2019 Excellent Youth Scholar of the NSFC and 2019 Bright Spark Lecture Award of the ISSMGE. He is currently the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the ISSMGE Journal of Geotechnical Research, the Immediate Past President of the Hong Kong Geotechnical Society (HKGES) and General Secretary of TC106 (Unsaturated Soils) and TC107 (Tropical & Residual Soils).