Junwen Zhang, born in August 1977 in Liangcheng, Inner Mongolia, professor, doctoral supervisor, specially-appointed professor of the "Changjiang Scholars" funded by the Ministry of Education, visiting scholar of the University of Newcastle in Australia funded by the China Scholarship Council, and associate head of school in the School of Energy and Mining Engineering. He is also the associate director of the specialised committee in the coal mine system engineering in the China Coal Society, the associate director of the coal mining engineering research centre of the roadway support and the disaster prevention, the associate director of the standardisation working committee of the Green Mine Industry Alliance, the branch director of the mining and rock mechanics in the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, the committee member of the dynamic disaster warning and prevention expert committee in the Coal Industry Technical Committee, the committee member of the mine rock burst professional committee in the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, the committee member of the coal bump and rock burst prevention in the China Mine Safety Society, the consulting expert of the major scientific and technological innovation projects in the Shandong Province. He is mainly engaged in the following research area: deep coal mining methods, rock burst disaster prevention, combined disaster prevention of the coal, rock and gas, mine pressure and ground control, surrounding rock stability control of roadways. He innovatively proposed the disaster prevention concept based on the structure regulating and corresponding core technology. He hosted more than ten research projects, including the key national natural science foundation funding, the joint key funding of the national science foundation and enterprise innovation development. As the first author/correspondence author, he published more than seventy top papers indexed by SCI/EI. Also, he has the following outcomes: two academic papers indexed by the Frontrunner 5000(F5000) from outstanding science & technology journals of China, more than twenty national invention patents, five academic monographs, three textbooks, three group standards as the leadership. The research outcomes are rewarded with the first prise of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology(R1), two second prises of Ministry of Education Science and Technology(R2, R3), more than ten first-prises or second-prises approved by Industry Association for Scientific and Technological Progress. He is awarded with the Coal Youth Science and Technology Award and the Green Mine Outstanding Contribution Award.

Contact: Dr. Junwen Zhang, Professor

School of Energy and Mining Engineering

China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing

Xueyuan Road D11, Beijing 100083, PR China

Tel: 13681359725

Email: zhangjw@cumtb.edu.cn; zhangjunwen1977@163.com