Wenjun Lu

China

Name: Wenjun Lu
Position: Professor, School of Intelligent Civil and Ocean Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Birthdate: December 1991
Email: luwenjun@hit.edu.cn

Wenjun Lu is a Professor at the School of Intelligent Civil and Ocean Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China. She obtained her BSc from the Ocean University of China and her PhD from Tsinghua University in 2019. Before joining HITSZ, she worked at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (2017–2018) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2019–2023). In 2023 she joined HITSZ under the NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Overseas). Her research focuses on the mechanisms and risk assessment of cascading geo-hazard chains across alpine, fluvial and offshore environments, integrating centrifuge physical modelling, multi-physics simulation and probabilistic analysis.

She has published over 45 peer-reviewed papers, 28 of them as first or corresponding author, including a first-author paper in Engineering, and holds four patents. Her investigations have been applied to the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge and the Shenzhen–Zhongshan Link. She is the PI of four NSFC projects and is internationally active, presenting at ISGSR 2022 (Australia), ISGSR 2025 (Norway), GEO-RISK 2023 (USA) and ICPMG (Korea). She has served as Session Chair at IAEG 2023, ISGSR 2025 and the ICGdR World Congress 2026.

She is Secretary-General of ICGdR TC-8, Associate Editor of the Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, and an Editorial Board Member of Deep Underground Science and Engineering (DUSE).