Junbo Jia

Dr. Junbo Jia is currently a senior principal engineer at Odfjell Technology, Norway. He has been extensively involved in engineering projects for offshore and energy industries, associated with different types of offshore and onshore infrastructures.

Dr. Jia is the sole author of three comprehensive scientific monographs by Springer: Essentials of Applied Dynamic Analysis (2013), Modern Earthquake Engineering (2017) and Soil Dynamics and Foundation Modeling (2018). All the three books receive an extensive amount of downloads based on Springer official data. He is also the editor of a book volume by CRC press: Engineering Dynamics and Vibrations - Recent Developments (2019, with J.K. Paik FREng).

Dr. Jia has been invited as guest professors, speakers, lecturers for industry training and university graduate courses, and members of PhD examination committees by various organizations and research institutes. From 2016 to now, he has been invited 5 times to give a full day lecture at the annual OMAE conference. He currently serves as the general secretary of the International Seismic Safety Organization (ISSO) and scientific committee members of several international academic societies and conferences. He serves on the editorial board of five scientific journals. As committee members, he has also been involved in developments of international codes and standards such as ISO 19901, Eurocode, and API. As invited members of expert group, he has been invited to evaluate seismic hazard and design for various design standards, such as the reviewing of the latest seimsic hazard of Italy invited by INGV.

Dr. Jia is an elected member of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (2019). He is listed in several global versions of the Who's Who publications. He has received several international and national awards such as the Vice Admiral E.L. Cochrane award by SNAME and the Best Paper Award by Journal of Ships and Offshore Structures (Taylor & Francis).