Prof. Dr. Heping Xie

Heping Xie was born in January 1956, is male and comes from Shuangfeng, Hunan. He is an expert in energy and mechanics and graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at the China University of Mining and Technology in 1982. In 2001, he was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is a Distinguished Professor at Shenzhen University, where he also serves as Director of the Institute of Deep Earth Science and Green Energy. He was also a former president, professor and doctoral supervisor at Sichuan University. Xie is a member of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council and a permanent member of the Chinese Society of Science and Technology. He is in charge of the national key research and development project "Mechanics and mining theories for deep-seated rock masses".

For many years, he has devoted himself to basic research and engineering practice in the fields of mining engineering, mining mechanics, green energy development and utilization, and deep earth science. In particular, he achieved outstanding results in the mechanics research of crushed coal and rock masses. He was one of the first in China to set up macroscopic damage mechanics models for mine fissure rock bodies and opened up new research areas in the damage mechanics of mine fissure rock bodies. Since 1982, he has creatively introduced the fractal method into the study of discontinuous deformation, strength and fracture damage of fissure rock bodies and, in conjunction with damage mechanics, established a new field of fractal research in rock mechanics internationally. In recent years, he has introduced innovative concepts and ideas in the field of deep earth science, including fluidized mining of deep earth solid resources, medium-low temperature geothermal power generation, underground space development and utilization, seawater power generation, and deep earth medicine, and carried out deep exploration in the field of green energy, low carbon technology, and CO2 mineralization and its comprehensive utilization, leading to important progress.

Academician Xie Heping was the chief scientist of the national 973 project (twice) and the chief scientist of the innovative research group of the National Natural Science Fund. He won the first prize of the China Young Scientist Award (Technical Science), the He Liang He Li Science and Technology Progress Award (Technical Science Award), the second and third prizes of the National Natural Science Award, and the second and third prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, respectively as the grand prize winner. He was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Nottingham in the UK, Clausthal University of Technology in Germany and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and received the academic title of Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford