Dr Cao Wang is a Lecturer at the School of Civil, Mining, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Wollongong, Australia. He was previously a Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, and an Adjunct Associate Professor (courtesy appointment) at the College of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University, China (2019-2022). Dr Wang is a recipient of the ARC DECRA fellowship – the most prestigious award to early career researchers from the Australian Research Council (ARC).