Macau University of Science and Technology, Macao
H-index-96
Dr Zongjin LI is Chair professor at Macau University of Science and Technology. He received his B.E. from Zhejiang University in 1982 and obtained both his M.S. and PhD from Northwestern University, Chicago, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He is honorary member and fellow of American Concrete Institute, Honorary Chair of China Group of RILEM and Founding President of ACI China Chapter. As the chief scientist, he has led a China Key National Basic Research Project (973) that promoted the concrete research in China to a world-class level. He also founded a series of the Gordon Research Conference, ‘Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure Development’ in 2014.
He is pioneer in noncontact resistivity/impedance measurement for cement-based materials. He also developed cement-based piezoelectric and opened a new direction for civil engineering. The methodology he developed to utilizing the in-situ polymerization of monomer during cement hydration process has shown a strong effect in enhancing flexural strength of cement-based composite. He has published 5 technical books, in which ‘Advanced Concrete Technology’ has been collected by many national and major university libraries. He has published more than 400 technical papers with a Google Scholar citation of 31483 and H-index of 96. He has also been awarded eight US and twenty Chinese patents.
He received the Arthur R. Anderson Medal from American Concrete Institute in 2017 and Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award from British Royal Academy of Engineering in 2014.
University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Vistasp M. Karbhari is a Professor in the Departments of Civil Engineering, and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, at the University of Texas at Arlington. An internationally reputed researcher, Prof. Karbhari is an expert in the processing and mechanics of composites, durability of materials, infrastructure rehabilitation, and multi-threat mitigation. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the National Academy of Inventors (NAI); the American Society of Civil Engineers; ASM International; the International Institute for Fiber-reinforced Polymers in Construction; the International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure; ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute, and is an elected member of the European Academy of Science and Arts.
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Professor Chun-Qing Li has been professor of civil engineering since 2006 initially in the UK and now at RMIT University, Australia. He is the fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers of UK (FICE) as well as the Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust). He was the Head of School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering at RMIT from 2011 to 2016. Now Professor Li is the Director of Australian Research Council’s Industrial Transformation Training Centre (ARC ITTC) for Whole Life Design of Carbon Neutral Infrastructure. This Centre is the first of its kind in the world.
Professor Li is the internationally recognised leader in timed-dependent structural reliability and steel corrosion in infrastructure and ranked in the “Top 2% scientists in the world” (the highest ranking) by the renowned publisher Elsevier for both single year impact since 2017 and career long impact, based on more than 20 indicators. His research in this area was rated “international leading” (i.e., 4* – the highest rating) in UK’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Professor Li has published over 400+ technical papers and two monographs on his core expertise, i.e., time-dependent reliability theory and its applications, and steel corrosion and degradation of its mechanical properties. He has been awarded many research grants, mostly from national research councils, e.g., EPSRC in UK and ARC in Australia, in total over $20M in the past ten years.
University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Prof. Massimiliano Pepe Graduated with full marks in Civil Engineering at University of Basilicata (Italy). In July 2007 he obtained the Master’s Degree in “GIS & Remote Sensing” at the University of Venice IUAV (Italy). In the period 2007- 2012 he was technical director of a company specializes in aerial survey and remote sensing working with diverse airborne sensors (optical sensors, Airborne Laser Scanner and Hyperspectral sensors). On February 2014 he successfully defended his PhD dissertation in Geodetic and Topographic Sciences at University of Naples “Parthenope”. From December 2015 to December 2016 he was temporary researcher at University “Polytechnic of Milan” (Italy) where he carried out research in the Digital Cultural Heritage and Remote Sensing field. From February 2017 to June 2018 he was temporary researcher at University of Naples “Parthenope”(Italy) where he carried out research in Remote Sensing field with particular regard to the study of images acquired from satellite platforms. From September 2018 to August 2019 he was temporary researcher at University “Polytechnic of Milan” (Italy) where he carried out research in the Digital Cultural Heritage. From August 2019 to August 2022, he is a researcher at the Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy) and teaching in the course of Cartography, GIS and 3D city model. Actually, he is Associate Professor in Geomatics at University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy). He is author of more than 60 publications in international journals, conference proceedings or book chapters in the field of geomatics. More details about the publications can be found in the Scopus page (https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=56465493000) or Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=sXcN8SYAAAAJ&hl=it) or ResearchGate profile (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Massimiliano-Pepe).
János Neumann University, Hungary
Prof. Dr. habil. Lorant Denes David, academician, is an extremely versatile Hungarian scholar. Born in 1968, he graduated in History, Geography, Tourism, Catering and Hospitality, European Studies and as a Geography-English Technical Translator. He was a scholarship holder in Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Amsterdam. Married, they have 3 sons (14-, 13-, and 10-year-old), wife and children have double citizenships: Hungarian, Romanian). His native language is Hungarian, and he speaks English and some Russian. After earning his PhD degree from the University of Debrecen, Hungary in Geography (Earth Sciences) in 2001, he completed the habilitation processes in 3 disciplines (Management and Business Administration, Environmental Sciences, and Regional Sciences – probably the only person in the world to do this – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitation). He has become an internationally recognized researcher and professor in the fields of geography and tourism, and holds full-professor positions in Poland, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Slovakia, and Hungary.
University in Galway, Ireland
Dr Myra Lydon is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at Queens University Belfast and Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at University of Galway. Her area of expertise is in the development of structural health monitoring systems and infrastructure decision support tools. She has been PI/Co-I on UK funded grants in excess of £10m focused on various aspects of transportation. She sits on the Republic of Ireland Committee for The Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT), and regional member of CIHT UK Council. She consults The Department for Infrastructure (DfI) and Translink on their infrastructure asset management and digital strategies. Her research has been ranked “world leading” by the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) in a 2021 Impact Case Study. Since her appointment in University of Galway she is has secured over almost €1m in funding from the EPA and SFI to develop advanced bridge maintenance systems to inform on climate adaptation measures and quantify the impact of bridge loss on rural accessibility.
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Su Taylor is a Professor of Structural Engineering and leads the Intelligent and Sustainable Infrastructure Group at Queen’s University Belfast. She is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of both the Institution of Structural Engineers and the Institution Engineers Ireland. She is a previous Vice-President of The Society for Civil Structural Health Monitoring (formerly ISHMII). Su has many years’ experiences in the use of Structural Health Monitoring and in the development and use of lower energy, high-performance materials for civil engineering infrastructure, in particular, bridges.
Su has published over 250 papers in top international journals and peer reviewed international conference proceedings ( https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/su-taylor/publications/ ). She led research resulting in the world’s first basalt FRP RC bridge deck slab, the world’s first full fibre optic bridge weigh-in-motion system, led the ‘intelligent infrastructure’ work-package of a €4.5M EPSRC funded research project Towards Net Zero Public Transport and currently leads a Carbon Trust funded project developing low energy basalt fibre RC for the pre-cast concrete industry.
