Professor Hing-Ho Tsang

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.