2025

08/10/2025
Sigong attended the 21st Annual Meeting of the Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering (WSE 2025) hosted by Linnaeus University, Sweden.
27/07/2025
Sigong visited Professor Takuro Mori at Hiroshima University, Japan.
23/07/2025
Sigong visited Associate Professor Mina Sugino at Kyoto University, Japan.
04/03/2025
Yifan Zhang joins the group as a visiting PhD student from Southeast University, China.

2024

20/11/2024
Dr Jin-Song Pei from the University of Oklahoma visited and delivered a presentation on soil modelling.
18/11/2024
Sigong received a travel grant from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
30/09/2024
Sigong visited Prof. Xiaojun Wei at Central South University and delivered a seminar on timber floor vibrations.
29/09/2024
Sigong visited Taohuajiang Bamboo Products Ltd. in Yiyang, Hunan Province, China.
25/09/2024
Sigong visited Dr. Xiaoyue Zhang at Chongqing University and delivered a research seminar on floor vibrations.
18/09/2024
Sigong visited Dr. Weiping Zhu at Guangdong University of Technology at Guangzhou, China.
13/09/2024
Sigong visited Dr. Zhibin Lin at Suzhou University of Science and Technology.
12/09/2024
Sigong visited Prof. Chunlin Wang at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.
11/09/2024
Sigong visited Professors Dongsheng Huang and Zhiqiang Wang at Nanjing Forestry University.
10/09/2024
Sigong visited Prof. Huifang Yang at Nanjing Tech and delivered a research seminar on timber structures.
22/08/2024
Sigong is awarded Royal Society Research Grants 2024 round 2.
26/06/2024
Sigong attended UK Timber Design Conference in London.
13/06/2024
Sigong is awarded IStructE Undergraduate Research Grant 2024/25.
12/06/2024
Sigong is recognised as Fellow by Advanced HE (FHEA).

2023

29/11/2023
Sigong attended Timber 2023 in London.
05/10/2023
Sigong attended UK Construction Week Birmingham.
28/09/2023
Sigong delivered two invited lectures at Beijing Jiaotong University and Beijing Forestry University.
18/09/2023
Ruijie Fan joined the group as a PhD student. She works on human-structure interaction on vibrating surfaces.
05/07/2023
Sigong presented at EURODYN 2023 in Delft, Netherlands.
18/06/2023
Sigong attended WCTE2023 in Oslo, Norway.
03/05/2023
Sigong attended UK Construction Week London.
14/02/2023
Sigong presented at IMAC-XLI in Austin, TX, USA.

2022

12/09/2022
Sigong joined Newcastle University as a Lecturer in Structural Engineering.