Dr. Hee Jung Ham has been on the faculty of Kangwon National University in Korea since 2002. Prior to joining the University Dr. Ham was a research associate at the National Research Council in Ottawa, Canada and an invited researcher at the Institute of Industrial Science of Tokyo University in Japan as a NSF (National Science Foundation) - JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) postdoctoral fellow. He received his Ph.D. from the Civil Engineering Department at Colorado State University in 1998, where his dissertation focused on modelling of wind loads and effects on buildings in aid of wind tunnel test and numerical simulation, supported in part by a National Science Foundation Fellowship. Dr. Ham has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in wind engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and structural engineering. He is a vice president of Wind Engineering Association of Korea and serves a member of editorial boards for Architectural Institute of Korea, Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Korea, Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation, and Korean Society of Volcanic Hazard Mitigation. Professor Ham's research interests focus on wind engineering, natural hazard mitigation, and structural engineering, with a specialty in wind effects on buildings and other structures. His interests also include analysis and modelling of extreme natural hazard, vulnerability (fragility) and risk. He is the author or co-author of over 160 research papers, published in architectural or civil engineering related conferences and scholarly journals.