On February 9, the inaugural signing ceremony for Engineering in Extreme Environments (ISSN 3120-4902), a journal published globally by Springer Nature and hosted by the School of Civil Engineering, SEU, was held at its Jiulonghu Campus. Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, including Sun Youhong (President of SEU), Liu Jiaping (Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology), Ding Lieyun, Yue Qingrui, Li Huajun, Wang Mingyang, and Liu Jiaping (Southeast University) attended the signing ceremony.

During the ceremony, Guo Tong, Dean of the School of Civil Engineering, SEU, officially signed a cooperation agreement with Ms. Dong Zhiqiao, Senior Publisherat Springer Nature. Over 60 experts in the field from Southeast University, Tsinghua University, Dalian University of Technology, Xiamen University, Tianjin University, the National Antarctic Research and Training Base, the China Polar Research Center, the Advanced Ocean Institute of Southeast University Nantong, and China Railway Construction Engineering Group witnessed the ceremony.

The journal Engineering in Extreme Environments is positioned as a comprehensive academic journal focusing on extreme environment engineering, dedicated to advancing the design, analysis, and performance optimization of engineering systems under extreme physical conditions. The journal is honored to have Sun Youhong serving as Honorary Editor-in-Chief, and is jointly led by Editors-in-Chief Guo Tong, Ranjith Pathegama Gamage (Chair Professor at Monash University), and Cheng Yufeng (Professor at the University of Calgary). It gathers internationally renowned scholars from countries and regions such as China, the United States, Australia, and Canada, forming a high-level, multidisciplinary, and international editorial board.

Currently, countries around the world are actively expanding into frontier fields such as polar scientific research, deep-sea exploration, deep earth engineering, and aerospace engineering. Climate change is also exposing more regions to the challenges of extreme environments. From the construction of Antarctic research stations to deep-sea resource development,andfrom high-altitude railway engineering to the operation and maintenance of the International Space Station, extreme environment engineering has become a strategic high ground in global scientific and technological competition. China is fully implementing major strategies in polar research, deep-sea exploration, deep-earth engineering, and aerospace engineering. The establishment of this journal aligns with global development trends, and national strategic needs, addresses humanity's common challenges, and will provide a global academic exchange platform for this field. It will promote the sharing of engineering experiences and technological cooperation among countries and drive breakthroughs in both fundamental theory and engineering technology.

The journal focuses on engineering innovations and breakthroughs in extreme environments such as thepolar regions, the deepsea, deepearth, space, high-altitude areas, deserts, nuclear facilities, offshore platforms, volcanic regions, and disaster zones. It covers core areas such as structural design and integrity under extreme loads, thermal-fluid systems in extreme temperature environments, dynamic propulsion and control systems, material selection and durability, sensing and communication systems, life support engineering, risk assessment, and resilience management. The journal accepts original research papers, review articles, short communications, and research briefs.

For a long time, research results in extreme environment engineering have been dispersed across specialized journals in cold regions, oceanography, geotechnical engineering, and aerospace.Engineering in Extreme Environments innovatively gathers all extreme environment engineering research results on a single platform,fostering high-level academic exchange for global researchers in this field. It promotes the integration of cross-environment knowledge and technology transfer, advancing systematic innovation in the field. The journal will uphold the editorial philosophy of “Excellence, Innovation, Openness, and Inclusiveness,” gathering global wisdom, deepening international cooperation, and injecting sustained momentum into the development of extreme environment engineering.

Source: School of Civil Engineering, SEU

Translated by: Melody Zhang

Proofread by: Gao Min

Edited by: Leah Li