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Prof. Jie Li
Topic: Stochastic Damage Mechanics：Background and Recent Developments
Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Prof. Jie Li is a Chair Professor in the Structural Engineering at Tongji University, the academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from Tongji University, China in 1988, and received an honorary doctorate in engineering science from Aalborg University, Denmark in 2013.
Prof. Li has been devoted to the theoretical research on structural engineering over 40 years. His contributions are distributed in the area of damage mechanics and stochastic dynamics. Prof. Li is the author of more than 500 peer reviewed journal papers. In 2014, Prof. Li was awarded the Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal by ASCE, owing to his academic achievements in the probability density evolution method and in the seismic reliability-based design of large-scale infrastructure systems. In 2025, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the International Conference on Damage Mechanics for his outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of damage mechanics. From 2017 to 2022, Prof. Li served as the president of International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR).