Dr. Chen Xu was born in August 1988. In October 2019, he got Mining Engineering of Doctor’s degree in Northeastern University, China. From May 2020, he commenced his career in Chengdu University of Technology as a full-time lecture. From December 2022, he has been promoted as an assistant professor. In March 2023, he was elected as a full research staff of State Key Laboratory of Geohazard Prevention and Geoenvironment Protection. In the past five years, he was the young Principal Investigator of several key scientific projects. His current research interests focus on damage and failure of rock triggered by cyclic dynamic disturbance, permeability evolution and progressive damage of rock, and deep underground rock mass. Throughout his career, he has published more than 30 papers in prestigious journals, in which more than 20 English papers (indexed by SCI) were published in Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, Landslides, Construction and Building Materials.