Professor Daichao Sheng

Qualifications

Education

• 1994
  Doctor of Engineering (teknisk doktor), Luleå University, Sweden
• 1990
  Licentiate in Engineering (teknisk licentiate), Luleå University, Sweden
• 1986
  BSc, Lanzhou University, China

Awards

• 2011
  Keynote Lecturer, VII Brazilian Conference Unsaturated Soils (Pirenopolis, Brazil)
• 2010
  General Reporter, 5th International Conference Unsaturated Soils (Barcelona, Spain)
• 2009
  Quigley Award, Canadian Geotechnical Society
• 2009
  Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia
• 2008
  Keynote Lecturer, 12th IACMAG Conference (Goa, India)
• 2005
  Best paper award, 11th IACMAG Conference (Turin, Italy)
• 2004
  Young Investigator Award, World Congress on Computational Mechanics (Beijing).
• 1996
  Stora Pris (First Prize), the Nordic Hydrological Society (NHF)

Employment

• 2007
  Co-Director, Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical and Materials Modelling
• 2007
  Professor, University of Newcastle
• 2006
  Associate Professor, University of Newcastle
• 2004
  Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle
• 2000
  Australian Research Fellow, Australian Research Council, 2000-2004
• 1997
  Research Associate, University of Newcastle
• 1994
  Research Fellow (Forskäre), Luleå University, Sweden

Editorial Boards of International Journals

• 2008
  Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Associate Editor
• 2006
  Computers and Geotechnics, Editorial Board, Elsevier

Research Interests

• Unsaturated soil mechanics
• Computational geomechanics
• Soil behaviour and constitutive modelling of geomaterials
• Large deformation geomechanics
• Contact mechanics in geotechnical analysis
• Geoenvironmental engineering
• Probabilistic analysis
• Interpretation of cone penetration tests