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Karen Scrivener has been a Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Construction Materials (LMC) in the Department of Materials at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland, for the last 20 years. She is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and the author of over 200 journal papers. Her research focuses …

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Shashank Bishnoi is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Delhi. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from IIT Kanpur, a Master’s degree from the University of Tokyo, and a PhD from Institute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He has served as a post-doctoral fellow …

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Wolfram Schmidt is a materials researcher at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). Together with Kolawole Olonade from the University of Lagos, Schmidt was recently awarded the German-African Innovation Prize by Germany’s Research Minister for his work. Sika AG is a Swiss multinational chemical company that serves the building and motor industries, …

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After a short career as a site manager, Stef began his precast career as a concrete technologist and quality manager in a pipe factory, and quickly took on the position of operational manager. In 2006 he joined the ECHO group where he successively held the positions of Director of Standardisation and Certification and Technical Director. …

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Hisham Hafez obtained an MSc in construction engineering in 2016 from the American University in Cairo, Egypt and another MSc in innovative structural materials and design from University of Bath, UK in 2017. He then carried out PhD research focusing on performance based sustainability assessment of concrete at Northumbria University, UK finishing in 2021. After …

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