Rui Shengjie

Biography

Dr Shengjie Rui is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to joining NUS, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) in Norway. He was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship. Dr Rui’s research focuses on geotechnical and ocean engineering, particularly on offshore renewable energy, offshore geotechnics, and ocean and coastal engineering. Dr Rui has presented his research at leading universities worldwide, including Oxford, Cambridge, MIT, Imperial College London, UC (Berkeley and Davis), ETH Zürich, the University of Sydney, and Melbourne.

Qualifications

• PhD, Zhejiang University, 2022
• BEng, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), 2017

Selected Honours & Awards

• World’s top two percent most cited scientists in 2024 in the field of geotechnical engineering, 2025
• Humboldt Research Fellowship Program by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2025
• Bright Spark Lecturer, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), 2025
• Best Paper Award at ASME 2024 43rd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE2024), 2024
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowships (with full mark), the European Union, 2023
• Excellent PhD Thesis Award, the Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering (CSRME), 2022
• LIU Huixian Earthquake Engineering Scholarship Award, 2022
• Excellent PhD Thesis Award, Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Province, 2023.
• Outstanding graduate, Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Province, 2022.
• National Scholarship for Doctoral Student, Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2021
• Outstanding graduate student, Zhejiang University, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Professional Activities

1. Visited several leading universities and delivered presentations at:
   a. University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University College London, University of Glasgow, University of Bristol, University of Southampton, University of Dundee, University of Nottingham, and University of Strathclyde (UK).
   b. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California, Berkeley, and Davis (USA)
   c. ETH Zürich (Switzerland), TU Delft (Netherlands), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Spain), University of Lisbon (Portugal), BOKU Vienna (Austria), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Norway)
   d. Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), University of Hannover (Germany), Hamburg University of Technology (Germany)
   e. University of Western Australia, University of Sydney, University of Melbourne, University of Queensland (Australia)
   f. Nanyang Technological University (NTU) (Singapore),
   g. Hong Kong Polytechnic University (China)
2. Reviewers for more than 50 journals, including Géotechnique, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Marine Structures, Engineering Geology, Physics of Fluids, Engineering Structures, Ocean Engineering, Coastal Engineering, and Applied Ocean Research
3. Visiting Researcher at the Department of Marine Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 2024

Research Interests

• Offshore energy development: offshore wind energy (fixed and floating wind turbines), wave energy systems, tidal energy utilization, and floating solar platforms.
• Offshore geotechnics: site investigation, seabed–structure interaction, offshore foundation installation, seabed dynamics, and liquefaction; centrifuge modelling for offshore foundations.
• Ocean and coastal engineering: hydrodynamics of platforms, subsea cables, mooring systems, pipelines, and risers; installation and analysis of coastal barriers, cofferdams, and seawalls.

Editorial Boards

• Editorial board member, Marine Structures, Elsevier, 2025-now
• Editorial board member, Ocean Engineering, Elsevier, 2024-now
• Associate Editor, Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, ASME, 2025-now
• Associate Editor, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Elsevier, 2023-now
• Editorial board Member, the ISSMGE International Journal of Geoengineering Case Histories, ISSMGE, 2025-now
• Leading Guest Editor of Special Issue in Ocean Engineering about ‘Mooring and cable system’, 2025-2026

Associated Membership

• Nominated member of (ISSMGE) TC104 Physical Modelling
• Corresponding member of (ISSMGE) TC209 Offshore Geotechnics
• Nominated member of (ISSMGE) TC213 Scour and Erosion
• Committee member of the International Association for Geological Disaster Reduction (ICGdR) TC-4
• Conference Scientific Committee of 11^th International Conference on Physical Modelling in Geotechnics (ICPMG 2026)
• Session chair at Geoshanghai International Conference 2024, ASME OMAE 2024, SIFOG2025, ICSE-12 2025

Conference Plenary and Invited Presentation

• Rui S.J., Bright Spark Lecturer. Mooring line and anchor-seabed interaction for floating wind turbines, 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Offshore Geotechnics, Nantes, France, June 9-14. (Plenary) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fQvZCNNnlk
• Rui S.J., Special Invited presentation. Clay Deformation and Erosion Due to Moving Subsea Structures. 12th International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE-12), Chongqing, China, November 4-7. (Invited presentation)

Selected Publications
(*corresponding)

1. Rui SJ, Wang LZ, Zhou ZF, Jostad HP, Guo Z*, 2024. Bearing performance of a novel caisson-plate gravity anchor. Geotechnique, 75(5), 686-697.
2. Rui SJ, Jostad HP, Zhou Z, Bachynski-Polić E, Sævik S, Wang L, Guo Z, 2025. Analysis of the mooring system for a floating wind turbine based on a macro-model of chain-seabed interaction. Marine Structures, 104, 103877.
3. Rui SJ, Jostad HP, Zhou ZF, Wang LZ, Sævik S, Wang YF, Guo Z, 2024. Assessment of seabed trench formation based on marine sediment properties and chain-bar penetration tests. Engineering Geology, 107746.
4. Rui SJ, Zhou ZF, Gao Z, Jostad HP, Wang LZ, Xu H, Guo Z*, A review on mooring lines and anchors of floating marine structures. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 199, 114547.
5. Guo Z, Zhou ZF, Jostad HP, Wang LZ, Rui SJ*. Relationship between chain axial resistance and confining stress for South China Sea carbonate sand: an element Canadian Geotechnical Journal, 2024.
6. Zhang ZC, Rui SJ*, Liu ZQ, Yang KJ, Sun XY, Zhang SH, Attention-based surrogate model to predict load envelope of monopile supporting offshore wind turbines. Renewable Energy, 120722.
7. Rui SJ, Zhou ZF, Jostad HP, Wang LZ, Guo Z*, Numerical prediction of 3- dimensional seabed trench profile considering the lateral movement of mooring line. Applied Ocean Research, 139, 103704.
8. Rui SJ, Wang LZ, Guo Z*, Cheng XM, Wu B, 2021. Monotonic behavior of interface shear between carbonate sands and steel. Acta Geotechnica 16, 167-187.
9. Rui SJ, Guo Z*, Si TL, Li YJ, 2020. Effect of particle shape on the liquefaction resistance of calcareous sands. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 137, 106302.
10. Rui SJ, Guo Z*, Wang LZ, Wang H, Zhou WJ, Inclined loading capacity of caisson anchor in South China Sea carbonate sand considering the seabed soil loss. Ocean Engineering, 260, 111790.