Annual Meeting and May tech talk: Hybrid rock reinforcement practice

Associate Professor Danqi Li
Started working in mining engineering at UOW in Feb 2026. Prior to this role, he had worked at Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University since 2021 and been promoted to a Senior Lecturer in 2023. He had also worked in Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University as an Assistant Lecturer in 2019-2021 right after he received the PhD degree at University of New South Wales in Sydney. Associate Professor Li has been very active in mine geomechanics research with a focus on the ground support in underground mines for which he developed constitutive models, laboratory pull-out testing facilities as well as digital framework for geotechnical application in underground mining operations (e.g. bolts compliance check, tunnel convergence monitoring). Associate Professor Li has successfully attracted over 1.2m Australian Dollars research funds as the Lead Chief Investigator from various sources including government, industry and universities in Australia. He has served as an Associate Editor in the International Journal of Mining, Reclamation and Environment and editorial board member in International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, and Scientific Reports. To date, Associate Professor Li has published over 60 high quality journal papers among which 75.5% in the top 25% most cited documents worldwide and 97.8% in the top 25% journals by CiteScore. In addition to the research track record, Associate Professor Li has also demonstrated effective teaching experience in various mining subjects including mining methods, mine ventilation, mine geomechanics and mine geotechnical engineering. He received Teaching Fellow Award from Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in 2020, Finalist of the Excellence in Research Award for STEM ECR from Curtin University in 2021, and Best Paper Award from Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology in 2023.