Director for Asia (China) & Vice-President

Dr. Peng is a Civil Engineer and Professor & Director, of the Research Center for Underground Space at the Tongji University in Shanghai. Prof. Peng have actively participated in most conferences or activities related to underground space in China and abroad, during which he promoted ACUUS to Chinese UUS academia and industry. He always acted as a bridge between ACUUS experts and Chinese fellows for sustainable underground space use in China, and arouse interest among undergraduates, postgraduates and young scholars to participate in UUS programs.

Director for the Americas (USA) & Secretary General

Sanja Zlatanic has a master’s degree in structural engineering, tunnels, concrete and steel structures from the University of Belgrade in Yugoslavia. Mrs. Zlatanic is based in New York as a senior vice president of HNTB firm. With over 30-year experience, she leaded the firm’s biggest tunneling and underground projects in the United States and abroad. She is a member of the International Tunneling Association, of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, of the North American Underground Association, of the American Concrete Institute, and of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Director for Asia (China) & Vice-President

Dr. Zhou is a mining engineer, with his first degree in Mining Engineering from the Central South University in China, and a PhD in Mining Engineering from Virginia Tech in USA. Dr. Zhou is Head Engineering in charge of the Underground Facilities at the Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA). He is responsible for all rock engineering and technology development for underground projects in DSTA. He has been an ACUUS Director (Asia) and Board member since 2013 and served as our Vice President during 2013-2016. He was the organizing chair of the 13th World Conference of ACUUS in Singapore in 2012 and will be again the chair of the organizing committee of the next 18th ACUUS Conference in Singapore in 2023.

Director for Asia (Japan)

Dr. Kishii is a professor on City Planning at the Civil Engineering Department of the Nihon University. He acts now as the president of “The institute of Behavioral Sciences” and the representative of “The Urban Underground Space Center of Japan“ (USJ) since 2012. He has held many prominent positions including the presidencies of the City Planning Institute of Japan, of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Landscape Committee, of the “Urban design Center Japan” and is a member of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic & Paralympic Games Organizing Committee”. The Urban Underground Space Center of Japan (USJ) is a member of ACUUS since 1997 and Dr. Kishii supervise all their activities.

Co-Director for Europe (France)

Bruno Barroca is an Architect and a Full-time professor in PhD Urban Engineering at the Gustave Eiffel University in Paris. He is a member of the urban engineering team of the Lab’Urba (Urbanism Laboratory). His research establishes links between geography, underground spaces, city planning, disaster waste management, architecture. He is also President of the Underground Space Committee of the French Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (AFTES). With Prof Laffrechine, he is editor of Underground spaces in Tunnels et espace souterrain.

Director for the Americas (Canada)

Prof. Michael R. Doyle has a PhD in Architecture and the Sciences of the City from the EPFL in Switzerland. Since 2019, Michael is an assistant professor at the School of Architecture of the Laval University in Quebec City. Previously, he worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Technical University of Vienna. His PhD work, were conducted as part of the Deep City Project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (and EPFL).