Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in Department of Geography, Shanghai Normal University and also the director of Center of Excellence for Disaster Risk Assessment and Management in Shanghai (CERAM-Shanghai). Reseach Area includes Disaster Risk Modeling, Mapping and Visualization, Disaster Risk Assessment Framework and Methodolgies, Community Based Disaster Risk Assessment and Emergency Risk Management, Mobil Disaster Information Acquisition System, Disaster Database, Urban Disaster Observatory and Disaster Risk Analysis Toolsets Development. Hold a current post of the member of Shanghai Disaster Prevention Cousil and also the member of China Disaster Prevention and Risk Analysis Committee. Received a Doctor's Degree in Science from the Department of Geography, East China Normal University.