I am an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering and a Chartered Civil Engineer. I am also a Fellow member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (CEng, FICE), a Member of the Institute of Concrete Technology (MICT), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Prior to joining the University of Birmingham, I held the position of Reader in Civil Engineering at Brunel University London from 2017 to 2023. This is where I completed my Civil Engineering with Sustainability degree (2012) and earned my Ph.D. in Sustainable Engineering Materials (2016), fully sponsored by the Industrial Cooperative Awards in Science & Technology.
Ezra Bar-Ziv joined the ME-EM Department as a professor in 2011, coming to Michigan Tech from Ben-Gurion University. Bar-Ziv held several post-doctoral associate positions. He was the director and founder of the program for Projects in Industry, the Program for High-Tech Retraining, and the chair and founder of the Department of Biotechnology and Environmental Engineering at Ben-Gurion University. He was the Clyde Chair in Chemical Engineering during his sabbatical at University of Utah in 2005- 2006 and then served as Associate Dean for Academic Development and Research at the College of Engineering Sciences at Ben-Gurion University.
Bar-Ziv founded three start-up companies on waste valorisations and led the largest torrefaction facility in the United States for Portland General Electric. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of advanced energy systems, including municipal waste valorisation, coal combustion, gasification, pollution reduction, and biomass torrefaction, for the power industry and large stationary systems. He earned his PhD in Chemical Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Anderson Assuah is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Business, and Science. Anderson has a Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Management from the University of Manitoba, Canada.
Anderson utilizes active learning methods in his teaching and emphasizes engagements and interactions among his students, as he believes knowledge is largely socially constructed. His research mainly focuses on solid waste management, sustainability, environmental governance, and climate change. Dr. Assuah is the founder and chairperson of the University College of the North Sustainability Committee, which promotes Indigenous and non-Indigenous sustainability strategies in northern Manitoba.
Associate professor Jan-Olof Drangert works as a researcher and trainer in the environmental field and based at Linköping University, Sweden. His research focus went from rural household water over to urban water and nutrient flows. He applies a system thinking incorporating environment, resources conservation, technical and building aspects, and human impacts and perceptions.
He favours to include historical experiences to grasp the evolution of water and sanitation conditions in order to deepen the understanding of what future may hold in store. He has published numerous articles about sanitation, phosphorus recycling, and water management. As Director for ten years of the 5-week international training programme Ecological Alternatives in Sanitation with more than 300 professionals.
Profession: – Lecturer at School of Materials and Mineral Resources Engineering, University Sains Malaysia
University: – Universiti Sains Malaysia
Yan is a Professor in Structural Engineering at UniSA and works in recycling used tyres into high-value building materials for structural engineering applications.
Dr. Radhouane Masmoudi, Is a professor in the Civil & Building Engineering Department and former vice-dean for research at the faculty of engineering, of the Université de Sherbrooke. He holds a US-patent on high-performance hybrid structures (US Patent No. 9,637,923, 2017). He is the founder and director of the High-Performance Hybrid Structures Laboratory (HPHS), a member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), a voting member of the ACI-440 Committee on Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRP) for Concrete and Chair of the ACI-440D Committee: Research, Development and Applications of FRP Reinforcements for Concrete.
He was the recipient of the Bazinet Award of Excellence in Teaching by the student’s association (AGEG), and the Jury Excellence Award of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction for the design of a huge architectural structure (L104m x H48m x W20 m) of the Caisse de dépôt (Montreal, Qc, Canada). His research contributions are mainly related to the design, testing, modeling and analysis of FRP reinforced concrete structures and structural shapes made of fiber-reinforced polymers filled with reinforced concrete. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. Professor Masmoudi has largely contributed to Fiber-reinforced Polymer (FRP) Reinforcements for concrete structures. He has conducted research that influenced the design of internal FRP-Reinforced concrete structures, as well as for Concrete-Filled FRP tubes (CFFT). Prof. Masmoudi has been elected Fellow the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (FCSCE, 2022) and Fellow of the International Institute of FRP for Construction (FIIFC, 2023).
