Directors
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD HADI, CO-DIRECTOR (UOW)
Muhammad Hadi is an Associate Professor and the Academic Program Director (Civil Engineering) of the School of Civil, Mining, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wollongong, Australia. For more than 30 years, his research interests are in structural engineering, where he has been investigating the bahaviour of concrete members reinforced or strengthened by fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP). His current h-index is 34 (Scopus) and he has published 277 documents that were cited 4149 times. He was granted a Discovery Grant (DP) from the Australian Research Council (ARC). He successfully supervised the completion of 38 PhD graduates.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NEAZ SHEIKH, CO-DIRECTOR (UOW)
Neaz Sheikh is an Associate Professor and the Acting Head of the School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wollongong. His research interests encompass reinforced concrete structures, composite structures, and structural dynamics. He has authored over 200 articles, including over 110 articles in highly reputed top-tier journals. His applied research has contributed to the development of several standards and codes of practice. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Structural Engineering. He is on the editorial board of Structural Concrete (journal of the fib) and International Journal of Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering. He is the recipient of ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers) best paper award in the Magazine of Concrete Research 2021.
PROFESSOR JIN-GUANG TENG, CO-DIRECTOR (INTERNATIONAL)
Professor Jin-Guang Teng holds the positions of Ko Jan Ming Professor in Sustainable Structures and Materials, Chair Professor of Structural Engineering, and Director of Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has conducted research over the past three decades on a wide range of topics within the broad field of structural engineering, including the structural use of fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in construction and steel & thin-walled structures. He has authored/co-authored some 190 SCI journal papers, leading to over 6,400 citations according to the Web of Science Core Collection. His work has impacted significantly on relevant design guidelines/codes in Australia, China, Europe and the United States. He was elected a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2013 and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015. He served as the founding president of the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC) (the premier international learned society in the field) during 2003-2006 and received the inaugural IIFC Medal in 2008.
PROFESSOR TAO YU, CO-DIRECTOR (INTERNATIONAL)
Tao Yu is a Professor of Civil Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an Associate Editor of the international journal Advances in Structural Engineering. His research interests include hybrid FRP structures, rehabilitation of existing structures and nonlinear finite element modeling of structural behavior. Dr. Yu has published over 80 research papers in the area of structural engineering, and many of his journal publications are among the “Most Cited Articles”, “Top 25 Hottest Articles”, or “Top Downloads” of the respective journals. Dr. Yu has successfully secured a number of research projects, including the “Discovery Early Career Researcher Award” from the Australian Research Council. He is one of the main contributors for the Chinese national standard “Technical Code for Infrastructure Application of FRP Composites (GB50608-2010)”.
Management Committee
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MUHAMMAD HADI
Muhammad Hadi is an Associate Professor and the Academic Program Director (Civil Engineering) of the School of Civil, Mining, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wollongong, Australia. For more than 30 years, his research interests are in structural engineering, where he has been investigating the bahaviour of concrete members reinforced or strengthened by fibre-reinforced polymers (FRP). His current h-index is 34 (Scopus) and he has published 277 documents that were cited 4149 times. He was granted a Discovery Grant (DP) from the Australian Research Council (ARC). He successfully supervised the completion of 38 PhD graduates.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NEAZ SHEIKH
Neaz Sheikh is an Associate Professor and the Acting Head of the School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wollongong. His research interests encompass reinforced concrete structures, composite structures, and structural dynamics. He has authored over 200 articles, including over 110 articles in highly reputed top-tier journals. His applied research has contributed to the development of several standards and codes of practice. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Australian Journal of Structural Engineering. He is on the editorial board of Structural Concrete (journal of the fib) and International Journal of Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineering. He is the recipient of ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers) best paper award in the Magazine of Concrete Research 2021
PROFESSOR JIAN-FEI CHEN
Professor Jian-Fei Chen is Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering and theme leader of the Structures Theme at Queen’s University Belfast. His main research interests lie in two distinct areas in structural mechanics and structural engineering: a) applications of FRP composites in construction and b) materials handling and behaviour of particulate solids flow, with recent research extended to renewable energy and low carbon construction materials. He has authored or co-authored over 300 publications, including the book “FRP-Strengthened RC Structures” published by Wiley in 2002, which has also been translated into Chinese, Korean and Persian. He has received a number of awards such as the Frederick Palmer Prize (2015) and Howard Medal (2004) awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers, and the J.M. Ko Medal (2013) given by the international journal Advances in Structural Engineering. Prof. Chen is a founding Council member of the International Institute of FRP for Construction (IIFC) and currently the President of the IIFC.
PROFESSOR PENG FENG
Professor Peng Feng holds the positions of full Professor of civil engineering and deputy head of the Department of Civil Engineering at Tsinghua University. His research fields are related to the high-performance structures with emerging materials and advanced construction techniques for civil engineering, including all-FRP structures and FRP hybrid structures, FRP strengthening of existing structures, integration of structures and functions for sustainable construction, and 3D printing for construction. Prof. Feng is the chair of three Chinese National Standard Committees on FRP. His work has impacted significantly on the relevant industry in China. He was awarded the Excellent Young Scientists by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Distinguished Young Scholar Award by the Specialty Committee on Infrastructure Applications of FRP Composites of the China Civil Engineering Society (CCES).
DOCTOR DILUM FERNANDO
Doctor Dilum Fernando is a Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering and also a Director of The Centre for Future Timber Structures at The University of Queensland. His research interests include behavior of bonded interfaces, FRP strengthening of existing structures, FRP hybrid structures, timber structures and performance based and life-cycle design of structures. Dr. Fernando is an emerging researcher in the field of advanced composites in civil infrastructure and is a recipient of Australian Research Councils’ (ARCs’) Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) among many other research awards.
PROFESSOR ALEX REMENNIKOV
Professor Alex Remennikov is an Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Wollongong and Head of School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering. He received his PhD from the National University of Construction and Architecture, Kiev, Ukraine in 1994. After graduation, he was awarded a New Zealand Foundation for Science and Technology Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Canterbury to study response of steel braced buildings to severe earthquake loads. Alex joined the University of Wollongong in 2001. His research interests include analysis and design of structures subject to extreme loads, experimental investigation of structures under impact and blast loads, and the development of high-performance protective structures for critical infrastructure protection against effects of terrorist attacks. He has published over 160 research journal and conference papers in the area of response of structures to extreme loads. Recently, Dr Remennikov has expanded his research area into the behaviour, design and experimental validation of response of reinforced concrete structures with FRP bars to extreme loading events. In addition, Alex has been involved in a variety of engineering consulting projects for governmental organizations and private sector, involving protection of Australian Embassies, banks, government buildings and other critical infrastructure facilities against terrorist attacks.
PROFESSOR SCOTT SMITH
Professor Scott Smith is Dean of Engineering and Foundation Professor of Engineering at Southern Cross University, Australia. He was awarded BE (Civil, 1994) and PhD (Structural Engineering, 1999) degrees from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and he was formerly an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. Prof. Smith is Senior Vice President of the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC), and he is Fellow of the IIFC, Engineers Australia, American Society of Civil Engineers, and The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He is a co-author of the well regarded 2002 Wiley book “FRP-Strengthened RC Structures”, has over 4400 Google Scholar Citations to his credit, and in 2010 was bestowed the IIFC Distinguished Young Researcher Award. Prof. Smith is an Editor of Construction and Building Materials (JCBM) and he is a member of the International Editorial Board of the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction.
PROFESSOR JIN-GUANG TENG
Professor Jin-Guang Teng holds the positions of Ko Jan Ming Professor in Sustainable Structures and Materials, Chair Professor of Structural Engineering, and Director of Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has conducted research over the past three decades on a wide range of topics within the broad field of structural engineering, including the structural use of fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in construction and steel & thin-walled structures. He has authored/co-authored some 190 SCI journal papers, leading to over 6,400 citations according to the Web of Science Core Collection. His work has impacted significantly on relevant design guidelines/codes in Australia, China, Europe and the United States. He was elected a Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences in 2013 and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015. He served as the founding president of the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC) (the premier international learned society in the field) during 2003-2006 and received the inaugural IIFC Medal in 2008.
PROFESSOR TAO YU, CO-DIRECTOR (INTERNATIONAL)
Tao Yu is a Professor of Civil Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and an Associate Editor of the international journal Advances in Structural Engineering. His research interests include hybrid FRP structures, rehabilitation of existing structures and nonlinear finite element modeling of structural behavior. Dr. Yu has published over 80 research papers in the area of structural engineering, and many of his journal publications are among the “Most Cited Articles”, “Top 25 Hottest Articles”, or “Top Downloads” of the respective journals. Dr. Yu has successfully secured a number of research projects, including the “Discovery Early Career Researcher Award” from the Australian Research Council. He is one of the main contributors for the Chinese national standard “Technical Code for Infrastructure Application of FRP Composites (GB50608-2010)”.
Principal Investigators
Name of PI
Academic Position
Institution
Professor Jian-Fei Chen, QUB
Associate Professor Jian-Guo Dai, PolyU
Professor Peng Feng, THU
Associate Professor Dilum Fernando, UQ
Associate Professor Muhammad Hadi, UOW
Doctor Michael Heitzmann, UQ
Associate Professor Xiangming Kong, THU
Doctor Yee Yan Lim, SCU
Professor Tim McCarthy, UOW
Doctor Cristian Maluk, UQ
Professor Alex Remennikov, UOW
Associate Professor Ting Ren, UOW
Associate Professor Neaz Sheikh , UOW
Professor Scott Smith, SCU
Professor Susan Taylor, QUB
Associate Professor Lip Teh, UOW
Professor Jin-Guang Teng, PolyU
Professor Tao Yu, PolyU