Xie Lili

Xie Lili was born in Shanghai in 1939. He graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of Tianjin University in 1960. At present, he is the honorary director of the Engineering Mechanics Research Institute in China Earthquake Administration (CEA), the Ph.D Supervisor and professor of the Civil Engineering Department in Harbin Institute of Technology. Furthermore, he is the deputy director of Science and Technology Committee of CEA, the executive director and secretary-general of the China Association for Disaster Prevention, the deputy director-general of the Seismological Society of China, and the Chairman of the International Society of Strong Earthquakes. In 1994, he became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

He is the principal founder of the strong earthquake observation and analysis in China. He designed the Tangshan Three-dimensional Array recognized by the international academic circle as international experimental array. Moreover, he developed an analytical method and software which have been rated as one of the best two software in the world after being assessed in the International Blind Testing Conferences held in Canada and Japan. He is also one of the few scholars in the world, who first discovered and quantitatively demonstrated the significant conclusions in earthquake engineering, which are “distinct discrepancies of seismic ground motion still exist on small even-distributed site”, and “seismic frequency in ground motion corresponding to the vibration frequency can be strengthened by the existence of structures”. He is appointed by the United Nations as an expert in the Ad Hoc Expert Group of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and a committeeman of the United Nations Science and Technology Commission.