Professor Ashraf Ashour,

Professor of Structural Engineering

Biography

Ashraf (ORCID:0002-4800-6060) is a Professor of StructuralEngineering at the University of Bradford, received his PhD from CambridgeUniversity, MSc and BSc(Hons) from Mansoura University, Egypt, was the Head of Civil Engineering Department between2007-2012 and the Director of Research at the School of Engineering between2014-2018. He is currently the Director of the Bradford Centrefor Sustainable Environments (BCSE). He is a Fellow of the Institutionof Structural Engineers (FIStructE) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher EducationAcademy (SFHEA). He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at theUniversity of Johannesburg.

Prof.Ashour has worked in many research projects sponsored by national andinternational research organizations; including British Council, Department forBusiness, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Newton fund and EU Horizon2020. He hasextensive research experience in the development of new construction materialsand their use in sustainable infrastructure as well as techniques to extend thelife of concrete structures. He has successfully supervised 20 post-doctoral researchfellows and 20 PhD students. He has authored and co-authored more than 250journal and conference papers. His publication citations may be found at:

- Scopus (Id:7005633555): https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7005633555

- Publons (Id:H-9523-2013): https://publons.com/researcher/2624307/ashraf-f-ashour/

- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=NBNbe5AAAAAJ&hl=en

- AD scientific index https://www.adscientificindex.com/scientist.php?id=1365963

Prof. Ashour is ranked amongst the top 2% scientists in Civil Engineering in accordance with the Global Database produced by Stanford University (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023) and was recently awarded Newton Prize -2020. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Structures and Buildings Journal (ICE), is currently the associated editor of Structures Journal (Elsevier) and editorial board member of the International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials (SpringerOpen). He is serving many national and international research councils for their funding allocation; for example member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, UK, member of the Royal Society’s International Collaboration Awards ODA Committee; member of the Royal Society’s International Exchanges Panel & Newton Mobility Grants and Kan Tong Po Fellowships, Latvian Council of Science; Swiss Research Council; Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF); M-ERA.NET funded network and VINNOVA, Germany; National Science Center, Poland; Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems; the European Science Foundation, FCT, Portugal; Eureka, Euro-Stars and European Commission-Horizon Europe.ProfAshour has been the external examiner for more than 40 PhD students and 6undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses in UK and overseas Universities.

Teaching

Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Professor Ashraf Ashour as follows: