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Faculty members

  • Ciprian Alecsandru
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Traffic operations and control, Traffic simulation, Intelligent transportation systems, Artificial intelligence applications in transportation, Transportation Engineering and Design
  • Luis Amador Jimenez
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Pavement Engineering Road Asset Management Systems Road Safety and Highway Planning Land Use and Transport Modeling Trip Generation and Parking Rates Public Transportation Accessibility
  • Chunjiang An
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    • Concordia University Research Chair in Spill Response and Remediation
    Research areas: Solid Waste Composting and Digestion, Waste Utilization and Resource Recovery, Advanced Physiochemical and Biological Treatment, Contaminant Transport in Multiphase, Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, Synchrotron-Assisted Environmental Process Analysis, Surface Water and Groundwater Quality, Environmental Sustainability
  • Andreas K Athienitis
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Status: Director, Concordia Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies (EV 15.101)
    Research areas: Solar Energy Engineering, Energy Efficiency, Renewable energy, energy efficiency. Integrated photovoltaics/solar energy utilization systems, Modeling, optimization and control of building thermal systems, Heating ventilation air-conditioning (HVAC), Numerical simulation of heat transfer, Thermal performance of the building envelope,
  • Ashutosh Bagchi
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Structural Engineering, Structural dynamics and earthquake Engineering, Rehabilitation and structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure, Reinforced concrete structures, Finite and boundary element methods, Computer aided design and engineering / Information technology
  • Anjan Bhowmick
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Structural Engineering, Seismic design and analysis of steel and reinforced concrete structures, Bridge Engineering, Seismic rehabilitation of steel structures, Fatigue of steel structures, Connections of steel structures
  • Po-Han Chen
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, Image Recognition, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Applications, Optimization of Construction Operations
  • Zhi Chen
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Environmental Engineering, Modeling of pollutant’s fate and transport in the environment, Risk assessment, air pollution, and environmental application of systems analysis and information technology, Pollution control planning, Management of soil and groundwater contamination, and coastal environmental protection.
  • Rebecca Dziedzic
    • Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Asset Management, Water System Sustainability, Infrastructure Resilience
  • Ursula Eicker
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Urban energy systems, 3D City modeling, Urban data and simulation platform development, Renewable energies, Zero Carbon Cities, Demand response and flexibility, District and solar heating and cooling networks, sustainable transport
  • Maria Elektorowicz
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Environmental Engineering, Bio-physico-chemical interaction phenomena in soil/groundwater/contaminant matrix, Biosolids management, Site assessment & remediation - biological, physical and chemical techniques, Modelling of contaminant transport in water, sediments and biota, Management for Acid Sulfate Soils, Waste disposal facilities - landfill, recycling, and recovery
  • Emre Erkmen
    • Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Computational Mechanics, Finite Element Method, Mesh-free Methods, Extended Finite Element Method, Multi-scale Analysis, Nonlinear Structural Mechanics, Thin-walled and Composite Structures, Structural Stability and Dynamics.
  • Khaled E. Galal
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Structural Engineering, Seismic rehabilitation of reinforced concrete and masonry structures, Applications of advanced composite materials in upgrading of structures, Performance-based design of structures, Modeling of building structures and bridges, Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics
  • Hua Ge
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: wind-driven rain, hygrothermal performance of building envelopes, advanced building facades, innovative & durable wood-frame construction, low-energy buildings
  • Caroline Hachem-Vermette
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Net zero energy buildings and neighborhoods, climate resilient neighborhoods and urban areas, advanced building envelope for high rise buildings, renewable energy systems, sustainable developments
  • Farah Hafeez
    • Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Retrofitting of heritage timber buildings, Seismic behaviour of log shear walls, Dynamic behaviour of mass timber buildings
  • Fariborz Haghighat
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    • Concordia Research Chair - Energy and Environment (Tier I)
    Research areas: Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation, Building material characterization, Modeling of airflow and contaminant dispersal, Indoor air environmental control strategies, Measurement techniques for airflow and indoor Air Quality, Advanced ventilation technologies (Hybrid ventilation)
  • Sang Hyeok Han
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
  • Adel M. Hanna
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Geotechnical Engineering, Soil-structure interaction, Bearing and uplift capacities of pile foundations, Pull-out capacity of plate and helical anchors, Performance of shell type foundations, Performance of subgrade and pavement materials in highways
  • Jassim Hassan
    • Senior Lecturer, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Structural Engineering Structural Finite Element Analysis and Modeling Reinforced Concrete Slab Analysis and Design Elastic Stability Structural Dynamics Prestressed Precast Concrete Structures Structural Mechanics Structural Systems
  • Jaehoon Hwang
    • Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Water-energy nexus and resource recovery, CO2 neutralization, high bio-alcohol production, microsensor for smart water management, and nanomaterial application for emerging contaminant (e.g., PFAS) removal
  • Shahin Karimidorabati
    • Senior Lecturer, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
  • Bruno Lee
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Building Energy Performance Assessment, Computational Simulation, Integrated Building Design, Energy Efficiency, Robust Performance Systems, Sustainable Design Criteria
  • Joonhee Lee
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: HVAC Noise,Room Acoustics Simulation/Reproduction, Noise Prediction, Noise-induced Perception, Acoustic measurement, Psychoacoustics, Sound Quality, Acoustic Data Mining
  • Biao Li
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Soil mechanics, Frozen soil, Rock mechanics, Constitutive modeling, Energy and Environmental Geomechanics, Finite element modeling, Thermal-hydro-mechanical coupling, Soil-structure interaction
  • S. Samuel Li
    • Chair & Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Water resources en, Sediment transport in gravel-bed rivers and river erosion, Computational methods in river hydraulics and density-stratified flow, Pollutant transport and turbulent mixing in shallow waters, Water-ice interaction, Drainage engineering, Coastal hydraulic
  • Lan Lin
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Structural Engineering, Seismic performance of buildings and bridges, Performance-based earthquake engineering, Development of seismic fragility curves for buildings and bridges, Development of improved intensity measures for probabilistic seismic, demand analysis, Seismic risk assessment using HAZUS-MH, Characterization of seismic ground motions
  • Jong Won Ma
    • Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Construction Engineering and Project Management, Building Information Modeling, Digital Twin, Automation in Construction, Disaster Resilience, Sustainable Built Environment
  • Osama Moselhi
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Construction Engineering and Management, Integrated cost and time control & project risk assessment, Planning, tracking and control of construction operations, Web-based project performance system, Optimization model for site selection and evaluation
  • Catherine Mulligan
    • Director, Concordia Institute for Water, Energy and Sustainable Systems
    • Professor , Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    • Distinguished Research Professor and former Concordia Research Chair in Geoenvironmental Sustainability (Tier I) , Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Environmental Engineering, Surfactant-enhanced washing and flushing of contaminated soils and sediments, Treatment and management of metal-contaminated soils, sediments and wastes, Bioremediation, Physical, chemical and biological treatment of wastewater, Biological treatment of air.
  • Fuzhan Nasiri
    • Professor & Associate Chair, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Facilities Management; Environmental Engineering; Energy Systems Engineering; Risk, Resilience & Reliability Analysis; Infrastructure Management; Sustainable Cities & Communities; Life Cycle Analysis
  • Ali Nazemi
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Hydrology, water security and climate change, coupled human-water systems, mathematical modeling and algorithm development
  • Mazdak Nik-Bakht
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Construction Engineering & Management Infrastructure Management
  • Mohamed Ouf
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: • Occupant Behaviour Modelling In Building Simulations • Building Performance Optimization • Occupant-Centric Building Controls • Data-Mining and Machine Learning for Building Operations • Net-Zero Energy Buildings
  • Ahmed Soliman
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: construction materials, nano-technology, green and smart materials, stimuli-responsive materials
  • Theodore (Ted) Stathopoulos
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Wind Engineering, Wind effects on buildings & building aerodynamics, Wind environment, Dispersion of pollutants in the urban environment, Computational wind engineering, Codification of wind effects
  • Lucia Tirca
    • Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Structural Engineering, Design Buildings to Withstand Seismic Forces, Design Steel Structures with Different Dissipation Devices, Seismic Retrofit and Rehabilitation of Existing Steel Structures, Resilience Based Design Modeling of Steel Structures
  • Liangzhu (Leon) Wang
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Building Environment, Forecasting/Hybrid building simulations using weather forecasting models, Building airflow and thermal management, Real-time building simulations
  • Mohammed Zaheeruddin
    • Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: HVAC and Control Systems, Decentralized and Multivariable controls, Optimization of HVAC processes, Experimental Methods in HVAC Controls, Computer-Aided Design of HVAC Systems, Diagnostics of HVAC Systems
  • Radu Grigore Zmeureanu
    • Professor, ing., PhD., Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Research areas: Energy Efficiency, Design and analysis of energy-efficient buildings, Sustainable development concept applied to buildings, Second law analysis of HVAC systems, Optimization of life cycle performance of buildings and HVAC systems, Computer modelling of energy performance of buildings and HVAC systems, Computer modelling of refrigeration systems for ice rinks, Net zero energy houses,

 
Full-Time Faculty (non-research)

Part-Time Faculty (non-research)

  • Michael Lacasse
  • Ahmed Zaalouk
  • Timir Baran Roy
  • Nghi Nguyen
  • Ardalan Sabamehr
  • Rahim Tadayon

  • Annamaria Buonomano
  • Jose Augustin Candanedo
  • Benoit Delcroix (as of January 2024)
  • Abhisek Gaur
  • Michael Lacasse
  • Kenneth Lee
  • Fereshteh Mafakheri
  • Carmen Mihaela Neculita
  • William O'Brien
  • Rajinikanth Rajagopal
  • Zeyu Yang
  • Laleh Yerushalmi

*Last Updated: July 2023

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