Bright Spark Lectures ICSMGE 2026
The 2026 Awardees
Yu-Wei HWANG (Taiwan)

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Assistant professor National Taiwan University
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Specialties: Performance design of geosystem, Physical model testing and numerical modelling, Geo-Environmental and Geo-Disaster Engineering, Application of machine learning in geotechnical engineering, Structure-Soil-Structure Interaction
Maria Victoria REQUENA GARCIA DE LA CRUZ (Spain)

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Assistant professor University of Cadiz
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Research topics: earthquake engineering, structural and seismic vulnerability combined with the soil-structure interaction problem, retrofitting and numerical modeling using the finite element analysis.
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46 indexed publications, 2 co-authored books
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has contributed to five funded projects and serves as a guest editor and reviewer for leading journals.

