Peng Cui

Prof. Peng CUI is a professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research(IGSNRR) and Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE), CAS. He has been engaged in geo-hazards (debris-flow ,landslide, flash flood and GOLF and related phenomena) for decades and obtained acknowledged achievements in mechanism and risk management technology, devoted to DRR both in China and abroad, collaborating with countries including Italy, Pakistan, Nepal, Thailand, Venezuela and so on. The mitigation techniques have been successfully applied to the mega debris-flow event in Venezuela (1999), the large dammed lake in Pakistan (2010), and the geohazards along the Karakoram Highway in Pakistan. He has published more than 300 papers, 6 monographs and 2 atlas, obtained 19 patents of disaster mitigation technology, and won more than 10 awards from international, national and provincial level