Publication Chair

Assoc. Prof. Waleed Khalil Ahmed

United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates

Biography:

Waleed K. Ahmed obtained B. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq in 1992. Served over 6 years in the manufacturing and the quality control field. In 2000 he obtained M. Sc. in Applied Mechanics from the of the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. Waleed appointed as a lecturer at the Materials Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Mustanseryia, Baghdad, Iraq in 2001. In 2006 completed his Ph.D., where the research was done in collaboration with Nottingham University, UK. Besides, he worked as a consultant for many industrial companies Dr. Waleed moved to work in United Arab Emirates University in 2006. Moreover, he published more than 50 journals and conferences papers. Dr. Waleed his main interest in renewable energy, nanomaterials, failure analysis, FEA and fracture mechanics.

Asst. Prof. Reyes Garcia

University of Warwick, UK

Biography:

Reyes Garcia is Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at the University of Warwick (UK). He obtained his 5-year Degree in Civil Engineering (Graduated with Honours) from the University of Michoacan (Mexico), his MSc in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology from the ROSE School (Italy) and University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble I (France), and his PhD from The University of Sheffield (UK). Reyes has 20+ years of research/consultancy experience in the fields of structural and sustainable concretes, FRP composites for construction, and earthquake engineering. He has been heavily involved in management and coordination of multi-partner EU and Research Council-funded projects in excess of £10M. He has designed/coordinated large-scale shake table tests in large scale facilities in Europe (CEA Saclay, France; Iasi, Romania). He has published more than 100 articles, papers and book chapters. He has contributed actively to the UK TG tasks for Eurocode 8-3, and he is a member of the fib TG 5.1 "FRP Reinforcement for Concrete Structures", and of COST Action TU1207 "Next Generation Guidelines for Composite Reinforcements". He regularly reviews research grant proposals for national/international research councils of Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as manuscripts for more than 20 international journals. He is Associate Editor of the ICE's journal Structures and Buildings. He has been member of committees, keynote speaker and chair in various international conferences in Latin America and Asia. He is also Visiting Professor at Walailak University, Thailand.