Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Academic Division: Civil Engineering
Research group: Geotechnical and Environmental
Email: ky356@cam.ac.uk
Research interests
Kongming Yan is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, with a secondment at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. His research focuses on the physical mechanisms of slope instability under seismic and climatic forcing, using interdisciplinary approaches. His work integrates geological field investigations, geotechnical experimental modelling, and remote sensing techniques to improve the physical understanding and prediction of geological hazards, particularly long-runout landslides and debris flows, and to enhance risk assessment and mitigation strategies for geo-infrastructure.
He is currently developing a climatic chamber integrated with dynamic centrifuge experiments at the Schofield Centre, Cambridge, incorporating both climatic and seismic loading to investigate landslide behaviour under coupled triggering conditions. This work is conducted in collaboration with the RISK Group at the University of Lausanne and aims to improve understanding of potential landslide hazards in the European Alps.
Other positions
Mar 2026 - Current, College Research Asssociate (CRA) at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK
Nov 2023 - Oct 2025, JSPS Research Fellow at Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Japan
Sep 2020 - Oct 2023, National Postdoctoral Fellow ("Boxin Plan") at Tongji University, China
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