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Hing-Ho Tsang

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Tsang, Hing-Ho

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  • Professor (Teaching and Research) of Civil and Structural Engineering, Civil Engineering
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4912-5184

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20062025

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Biography

Hing-Ho Tsang is Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering at the University of Dundee, with over 20 years of international academic experience across Australia, Hong Kong, and the UK. His research focuses on the behaviour and design of infrastructure systems under extreme loading, including earthquakes, impacts, and climate-related actions. A unifying theme of his work is a mechanism-based design perspective, in which underlying mechanics are explicitly identified and leveraged in design.

His contributions span controlled rocking and self-centring systems, structural robustness in modular buildings, bioinspired hierarchical structures for impact resistance, and geotechnical seismic isolation (GSI), which can be viewed as an extension of mechanism-based design principles into the soil-foundation domain. More broadly, his work seeks to integrate structural and geotechnical engineering approaches within a coherent framework for designing infrastructure under extreme conditions.

He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) and has contributed to the development of design guidelines and standards through advisory roles to government and industry. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and is recognised among the World’s Top 1% of Scientists for both career-long and single-year impact in Civil Engineering (Elsevier, Stanford University). He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering and Geosynthetics International, and chairs the Global Network for GSI (https://www.gsi-global.org).

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  3. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
    SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
  4. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  5. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  6. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  7. SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
    SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  8. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  9. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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