Research Output

University people have to publish about their research, because this is what is expected from us and most of the time that determines our ranking. We can debate whether that is good or bad. Nevertheless we can not do without publishing and presenting of our work in scientific journals, conferences, workshops, websites, videos, talk shows and podcasts. Other websites and media are much better in collecting all our data than we can do. That is why below links are given to these websites.

Publications

Footage

TEDx talk on Self Healing Asphalt (2012)

CNN: Make, Create, Innovate: Self-Healing Roads (2014)

Presentations/Lectures

Smartincs Open Workshop: The self-sealing prospect for different practical applications (2021)

Bazant-Biot Conference, Debate: Cementitious composites at fresh state are visco-plastic solids (2021)

Universiteit van Nederland: Hoe kan een betonen huis zijn eigen scheuren repareren (in Dutch) (2019)

Smartincs 1st Training School: Theory of cracking (2020)

Smartincs 1st Training School: How to perform fracture tests? (2020)

Smartincs 1st Training School: Modelling of fracture, transport, durability and self-healing (2020)

29 Baltic Road Conference, Tallin, Estonia: Self-healing asphalt (2017)

Awards, memberships and other achievements

  • Honorary President RILEM 2018; which actually just means that you have to organize the RILEM week in that year.
  • Fellow IA-FraMCoS 2019
  • Guest Professor Southeast University, Nanjing, China
  • Guest Professor Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
  • President CONCREEP (from 2021)
  • William Pierson Field Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University, USA, 2024
  • RILEM-fellow 2024

 

member of

  • RILEM
  • ACI
  • IA-FraMCoS board
  • IA-ConCreep board

 

Best paper awards (for papers I was co-author, so the credits actually go to the main author)

  • Senot Sangadji,  ICCR12-conference, Cape Town, South Africa,  best paper, 2012
  • Mladena Lukovic, Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology (JACT), best article 2015
  • Yidong Gan, FraMCoS-X conference, Bayonne, France, best paper, 2019
  • Shan He, ICSHM, Milano, best paper, 2022
  • Shan He, Self Healing Concrete conference, best paper, Ghent, 2023
  • Salam Al-Obaidi, Shan He, Erik Schlangen & Liberato Ferrara, Effect of matrix self-healing on the bond-slip behavior of micro steel fibers in ultra-high-performance concrete, Materials & Structures, outstanding paper award 2023

 

Plenary Keynotes & Debates

Below is a list of keynote presentations given at conferences in recent years:

 

2026 ICSHM10 Int Conference on Self healing Materials, Drexel University, USA; Plenary Keynote Lecture.

2024 ICSHM9 Int Conference on Self healing Materials, Madrid: Plenary Debate on Standardization of Self Healing Material Testing

2024 5th Int Conference on 3D Construction Printing, Hong Kong; Plenary Keynote Lecture.

2023 4th Int Conference on 3D Construction Printing, Singapore; Plenary Keynote Lecture.

2023 Lulea University, Sweden; Invited lecture on Self Healing Materials

2022 SSCS-2022 conference, Marseille, France; Invited keynote lecture.

2022 Columbia University; Invited lecture on smart materials.

2021 ConCreep11 / Bazant-Biot Conference, Evanstan, USA; Plenary Debate (online).

2021 EAC16-FESI2021-conference, Italy (online); Plenary lecture.

2021 COMS-2021, Bled Slovenia; Plenary Keynote Lecture on 3D printing and Plenary Panel Discussion on Future of Construction (online)

2020 RM4L Workshop, UK (online); plenary lecture on self healing materials

2019 SMASCO-lulea conference, Sweden. Plenary Lecture on Self-healing concrete

2019 2nd Int Conference on 3D Construction Printing, Tianjin, China; Plenary Keynote Lecture.on 3D printing at different scales

2019 Nordic Seminar Concrete in Artic Conditions, Trondheim, Norway; Invited lecture on Micro-mechanical testing.

2019 SHGC, Seoul, Korea; invited lecture on Applications of self healing concrete.

2018 IWNMC-2018, Harbin, China; Keynote lecture on nano-mechanical testing for concrete.

2018 AFC conference, Fuzhou, China; Keynote lecture on Multi-Scale-Modelling of concrete

2018 ACE2018, Izmir, Turkey; Invited lecture on Micro-scale testing and modelling of concrete

2018 ESIS-TC09-spring meeting, Torino, Italy; invited lecture on nano-indentation of cement paste.

2017 ICSHM2017, Friedrichshafen, Germany; Key-note lecture on Self-Healing Asphalt

2017 ESIA14, Manchester, UK; Keynote Lecture on Recent developments in high integrety concrete structures

2017 Baltic Road Conference; Keynote Lecture on Self healing Asphalt

2016 GRC, Hong Kong; Keynote Lecture on Self-healing. sensing and multiscale testing.

2016 UDD and UBB, Santiago and Concepcion, Chile; Invited lectures on Smart concrete and asphalt.

2015 CONCREEP10, Vienna, Austria; invited lecture on testing and modelling of cement paste.

2015 ASEM15; Seoul, Korea; Keynote lecture on Testing of concrete with natural fibres.

2015 SSCS2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Invited lecture on Chloride ingress and corrosion in cracked concrete.

 

Conferences

In our group we are experienced in organizing conferences and workshops. Our event manager Iris Batterham is always the motor behind the organization. A few examples of what we organized in the past years, for which I served as conference chair:

  • CONCREEP 12 (2024)
  • 72nd RILEM week and SLD and CONMOD conferences in 2018
  • Self Healing Concrete workshop in 2016
  • SHCC3 conference in 2013