Wei Xiang

Prof. Wei Xiang is a Professor and doctoral supervisor at the Department of Geotechnics and Engineering Geology, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), within the Faculty of Engineering. He serves as Associate Director of the Three Gorges Reservoir Research Centre for Geohazard (Ministry of Education) and Director of Hubei Province's Teaching and Experiment Centre for Geological Engineering. His career includes rural construction work (1970), studies at Yangtze Hydraulics and Hydropower College (1975-77), and a Master's in Engineering Geology from Lanzhou University (1980-83). He earned his German Doctorate in Natural Sciences (1997) from Karlsruhe University, focusing on alpine landslides.

Research focuses on landslide mechanics, slope stability, geophysical methods, and reservoir geohazards. He contributed to major projects like the Three Gorges Dam foundation analysis (1988 award) and collaborated with German institutions on contaminated site remediation and geophysical non-excavation techniques. As guest professor at Karlsruhe, he taught landslide monitoring and clay mineralogy.

Supervised 4 PhDs and 8 masters students (including 2 Germans), currently mentoring 31 students (16 PhD candidates). Published 50+ papers (20+ in EI/SCI/ISTP-indexed journals) and a monograph on clay mineral cation exchange effects. Active in international projects like Alps landslide studies and radioactive waste site selection.