Yunmin Chen#
| Membership Number: | 7420 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | ENGINEERING |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/chenyunmin#902203 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/yunmin-chen-7464082b0/?originalSubdomain=cn |
| Publication Link: | https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/chenyunmin#902203 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - date Chair of Academic Committee, Zhejiang University
- 2018 - date Chief scientist of the National Major Science and Technology Infrastructure: Centrifugal Hypergravity and Interdisciplinary Experiment Facility, National Development and Reform Commission, China
- 2017 - date Director of Center for Hypergravity Experiment and Interdisciplinary Research, Zhejiang University
- 2014 - 2019 Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Zhejiang University
- 2007 - 2018 Director, Key Laboratory of Soft Soils and Geoenvironmental Engineering (Zhejiang University), Ministry of Education, China
- 1999 - 2009 Executive vice dean of College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University
- 1999 - 2008 Director, Sino-Dutch Research Center of Soft Soil and Foundation Technology established by Ministry of Education of the Netherlands and Ministry of Education of China
- 1995 - date Professor, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, China
- 1993 - 1995 Research fellow, cooperate with prof. A.F. van Weele of Delft University of Technology, Institute of Foundation Verification, Netherlands, developing pile driving monitoring system, during this period, he obtained the research experiences on technological science, which is the foundation of the International Cooperation Projects between the Ministry of Education of the Netherlands and China: Soft Soil and Foundation Technology (grant No. OWBA29913023).
- 1989 - 1993 Lecturer, Associate professor, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Subgrade of high-speed railway
- Environmental geotechnics
- Soft soil
- Hypergravity experiment and facilities
- Soil dynamics and earthquake engineering
- Municipal solid waste landfill
- Coupled process
- Soil degradation
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Key technology for safe disposal and recycling of municipal sludge mud residue and its applications, Scientific and Technological Progress Award Prize of Zhejiang province (first-class)
- 2020 Key technology for remediation of uncontrolled landfill and engineering application, Scientific and Technological Progress Award Prize of Zhejiang province (first-class)
- 2018 Safe control key technology for hyper-gravity test of significant offshore geotechnical engineering and its applications, Scientific and Technological Progress Award Prize of Zhejiang province (first-class)
- 2017 Long-term settlement assessment and control technology of soft soil foundation for rail transit, Scientific and Technological Progress Award Prize of Zhejiang province (first-class)
- 2019 Hyper-gravity phase change of multi-phase media, Chief Project Scientist, National Science Foundation for Center for Basic Science, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- 2017 Top Ten Scientific and Technological Progress in Chinese Universities, Ministry of Education, China
- 2017 12th MAO Yisheng Science and Technology Award-Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Award
- 2015 Academician of Chinese Academy of Science
- 2012 Environmental soil mechanics mechanisms of municipal solid waste landfills and key technology for disaster control, National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, China State Council
- 2011 Basic research for environmental disasters induced by municipal solid waste landfills and sustainable control method, Leading Scientist of the National Basic Research Program of China (“973” Project)
- 2011 Generation, transport and systems engineering control of leachate and gas in landfills, Leader: Essential International Cooperation Projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, grant No. 51010008. Collaboration with Prof. William Powrie from Southampton University and Prof. Hywel R Thomas from Cardiff University. The proposed mathematical model and horizontal well method can effectively control the liquid and gas pressures in the landfills and has been widely used in the landfills in China
- 2010 Theory for interactions of seepage, deformation and stability in municipal solid waste landfills and application technologies. Scientific and Technological Progress Award Prize, Ministry of Education, China
- 2009 Catastrophic control technology for structured soft and weak soil foundation and engineering applications, National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, China State Council
- 2007 Design theory for ground improvement of deep structured soft soils and settlement control technology, Scientific and Technological Progress Award Prize (first-class), Ministry of Education, China
- 2006 Cheung Kong Scholar (Distinguished Professor), Ministry of Education, China
- 2005 Special-Class Expert, Zhejiang Province, China
- 2004 MAO Yisheng Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Youth Award winner
- 2004 Soils and foundations, Distinguished Young Scholars supported by NSFC, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- 2002 Young Teacher Award in Higher Education Institutions, Ministry of Education, China
- 1999 Soft soil and foundation technologies, Leader: International Cooperation Projects between the Ministry of Education of the Netherlands and China, grant No. OWBA29913023
