Ritu Raj is currently working as an
Assistant Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the Delhi
Technological University. Ritu Raj graduated from NIT Raipur and earned a
Master of Technology from NIT Warangal then after awarded with Doctorate of
Philosophy in Structural Engineering from IIT Roorkee. Ritu Raj’s research
interests include Behaviors of wind loads on the response of high-rise and
low-rise structures, Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel, Bluff Body Structures, Design
of Tall Building, Fiber reinforced Concrete, High Strength Concrete, Structural
Engineering, Wind Engineering, and Concrete Technology. Ritu Raj has expertise
in various Civil Engineering and Numerical Modelling Software such as
Computational Fluid Dynamics, ANSYS CFX, FLUENT, STAAD-PRO, E-TABS, SAP-2000,
and AUTO-CAD. Ritu Raj has demonstrated more than 7.5 years of experience in
teaching at the level of graduates and post-graduates.
Mohammad Iqbal Khan is a
Professor of Structural Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering and
Managing Director of the Center of Excellence for Concrete Research and Testing
at King Saud University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). He is an Adjunct
Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Missouri
University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA. He was formerly an Assistant
Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK.
He received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Sheffield, UK. He is
actively engaged in research in materials and structural engineering. His
primary research interests are developing blast and impact-resistant materials;
structural behavior of concrete-filled tubes; fiber-reinforced concrete
structures; cement-based and polymer-based fiber-reinforced composites; nano-
and micro-mechanics of composite materials; sustainability and environmental
impact; self-compacting concrete; prediction modeling; application of
artificial intelligence. He has
published over 300 technical papers, holds 27 patents, edited/co-edited 7
volumes, and authored/co-authored 2 books. He is listed in the top
2% of scientists in the world in
both the life-long citation impact of his work and the citation impact of his
work for a single calendar year continuously since 2019 by Stanford University,
USA. He serves as editor/associate editor of 6 international journals.
Jamal Khatib is presently a Professor of
Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering at Beirut Arab University
(BAU)—Lebanon and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Wolverhampton
(UoW)—UK. His academic career began in 1987 as a Research Student/Assistant/Fellow,
at the University of Aberdeen. In 1994 he moved to take another Research Fellow
post at the University of South Wales (USW) until 1997. He then took a
permanent position as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering at
Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). During that time and due to research
collaboration with IMUST-China, he was awarded the title of Honorary Professor
in 2001. After 9 years at SHU, he moved to the UoW as a Reader in Civil
Engineering and became a Professor in July. In 2010, he achieved the Chartered
Engineer status of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the European
Engineer status (EUR ING) in 2015 and in 2016 he achieved the Fellowship status
of the ICE. Areas of research specialism include several sustainable construction
materials themes: (a) use of waste in the production of construction materials,
(b) novel construction materials (e.g. metakaolin), (c) concrete subjected to
harsh environments, (d) lightweight and self-compacting concrete and (e)
behavior of structural materials.
