Recently, Stanford University in US released the list of World's Top 2% Scientists 2020. Paul Fanning, provost of CDIC, was selected as the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020 in the field of civil engineering.

World's Top2% Scientists2020

Paul Fanning

The list was published by the team of Professor John PA loannidis of Stanford University and Mendeley Data under Elsevier. The list is based on the Scopus database, based on the number of citations, H factor, HM factor and other comprehensive indicators. According to scientists’ career influence and annual influence, the top 2% of scientists in the world out of the nearly 7 million scientists in 22 fields and 176 sub-fields were selected.

Paul Fanning is currently the Director of the China Office of the University College Dublin, and the Provost of the Chang'an Dublin International College of Transportation at Chang'an University (CDIC). His main research areas are structural assessment and condition monitoring using vibration response data, masonry arch bridges, and issues relating to vibration serviceability of lightweight structural systems due to human induced loading.

Relying on the superior disciplines of Chang'an University and the University College Dublin, CDIC aims to build an international college with distinctive characteristics in the field of transportation engineering, and is committed to cultivating high-end technical management talents with broad international perspective and the ability to solve complex engineering problems in the field of transportation engineering. The fact that CDIC’s provost and dean Wang Hainian were respectively selected as the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020 and Elsevier's 2020  Highly Cited Chinese Researchers showed that the leader of CDIC’s both parties have high academic achievement and international influence, which fully demonstrate CDIC’s competence in Sino-foreign cooperation education. Also, they play a positive role for CDIC students to pursue scientific research in the future, and play a leading role in CDIC’s core curriculums education development.