On April 28, 2021, the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Construction Management of Tsinghua University organized a postgraduate "Academic Rising Star" selection defense meeting in Room 201, He Shanheng Building. Quan Mao, a doctoral student of the research group, stood out and won the title of "Academic Rising Star" among the postgraduates of the Department of Civil Engineering and Department of Construction Management, and was the only postgraduate student in the Department of Construction Management who won the honor.
Picture 1 Quan Mao
The selection of “Academic Rising Stars” for the postgraduates of the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Construction Management aims to provide a platform for students to show their academic achievements, promote academic exchanges, encourage academic research and set examples for students. Each year, 4 “Academic Rising Stars” and 4 “Academic Rising Star” nominees will be selected from all the graduates in the two departments. This time Quan Mao was awarded the title of "Academic Rising Star" in recognition of his academic contributions and achievements in urban resilience and disaster prevention and reduction.
Quan Mao entered the Department of Construction Management of Tsinghua University in 2015 to pursue his master's degree in management science and engineering. In 2018, he was admitted to the doctoral program under Associate Professor Li Nan, and engaged in the research on infrastructure modeling and resilience assessment, disaster economic loss assessment and other aspects, with outstanding research achievements made. During his postgraduate period, Quan Mao had won scholarships and other honors for many times, and he participated in 3 national and provincial research projects and 2 other research projects, published a total of 4 SCI/SSCI papers (3 as first author) and 3 international conference papers (first author of 2 EI Conference papers), and won the Best Poster Award at one international conference. Quan Mao is expected to graduate by the end of this year and plans to continue his academic research at a domestic university.
Based on production theory and supply-demand theory, Mao Quan comprehensively sorted out the factors and channels of business closure and interruption losses. Besides, he constructed the earthquake event -based business closure length model, business interruption ratio model and business recovery model of enterprises in various industries. Furthermore, Quan Mao proposed the business interruption loss model and prediction framework for enterprises and industries to provide scientific basis and decision support for improving the prediction level of disaster economic losses, enhancing the disaster response and recovery capacity of the economic system, and improving the level of regional economic resilience.
Picture 2 Framework of Dr. Quan Mao’s Research
