First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Sep 15, 2026
Extended Early Bird Ends: Jan 28, 2026
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Nawawi Chouw
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Title: Impact of the subsoil on the seismic behaviour of structures
Professor Nawawi CHOUW was Director of the University of Auckland Centre for Earthquake Engineering Research in New Zealand. He worked at universities in Germany, Japan, and Australia before joining the University of Auckland. He received his doctorate in Civil Engineering from the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. He has twice been awarded the Gledden Fellowship of the University of Western Australia, the Fritz-Peter-Mueller Prize of the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, the Best Research Award of Chugoku Denryoku Research Foundation, Japan, and received two recognitions for excellence in research supervision from the Chinese Scholarship Council. He has published 461 publications, including more than 150 in international journals. He was invited to teach at several universities in Europe, China, and Japan. He was a guest editor of several journals, e.g., Protective Structures, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. He is the associate editor of Materials, Shock and Vibration and Frontiers in Build Environment – Earthquake Engineering and serves on the editorial board of several international journals, e.g., Engineering Structures. He was a visiting and guest professor at several universities in China, Germany, Canada, Australia, and Japan.
Prof. Qihong Deng
Zhengzhou University, China
Title: Effects of global warming on mental health
Dr Qihong Deng is Chair Professor and Executive Dean in Zhengzhou University School of Public Health. He has mainly focused on the health risk of environmental pollutants and global warming, with the objectives to design comfortable and healthy buildings/cities. He is now the Vice President for the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) and Chairman of Climate Change and Health Branch of Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences.
He is now editorial board members for more than 10 international journals including Environmental Science and Ecotechnology (Elsevier), Sustainable Cities and Society (Elsevier), Environment International (Elsevier), BMC Medicine, Building and Environment (Elsevier), Energy and Buildings (Elsevier), Urban Climate (Elsevier), International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health (Elsevier), Preventive Medicine (Elsevier), and Annals of Epidemiology (Elsevier).
Dr Deng received several awards, such as National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation (2005) and New Century Excellent Talents in Universities of China (2005). He is now the Fellows of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ), New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS), and International Society of the Built Environment (ISBE). He is the president of Healthy Buildings 2019 Aisa conference.
He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and has been selected as the Most Cited Chinese Researchers since 2015 (Elsevier) and World’s Top 2% Scientists (Stanford/Elsevier).
Prof. Brahim Benmokrane
University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Title: To be confirmed.
Will update soon.
Prof. Kara Kockelman
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Title: To be confirmed.
Kara Kockelman is a registered professional engineer and holds a PhD, MS, and BS in civil engineering, a master’s in city planning, and a minor in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Kockelman has been a professor of transportation engineering at the University of Texas at Austin for 26 years, and is Associate Site Director of the NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Efficient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation Systems. She has authored over 230 journal articles (and two books), and her primary research interests include planning for shared and autonomous vehicle systems, the statistical modeling of urban systems, energy and climate issues, the economic impacts of transport policy, and crash occurrence and consequences.
Prof. Eckart Meiburg
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Title: Exploring Sediment Transport Processes via Grain-Resolving Simulations
Eckart Meiburg received his Ph.D.in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Karlsruhe in Germany, in 1986. After a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University, and faculty appointments at Brown University and the University of Southern California, he joined UC Santa Barbara in 2000, where he currently is a distinguished professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is a recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Humboldt Senior Research Award, a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a past chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, and he serves as Associate Editor for Physical Review Fluids. He has held visiting positions in France, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Israel. His research interests lie in the general area of fluid dynamics and transport phenomena, with a focus on multiphase and environmental fluid mechanics.
Prof. Dina D’Ayala
University College London, UK
Title: To be confirmed.
Will update soon.
Prof. Rita Bento
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Title: Advancing the Seismic Safety of the Built Heritage: Lessons from Research and Practice
Full Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal. PhD in Civil Engineering /Structures from IST and a master's degree in Earthquake Engineering at Imperial College, London. Specialized in earthquake engineering, structural behaviour, dynamics of structures, and strength of materials. Main research interests include assessment, strengthening and repair of structures, structural testing and nonlinear modelling, earthquake engineering, and structural dynamics.
Currently, a member of the Executive Board of ‘The European Association of Earthquake Engineering’ (EAEE) and a member integrated of the Research group of CERIS ‘Structures and Geotechnics’. Associated Editor of Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering (Springer) and coordinator of EAEE Work Group 12 (WG12: Continuing Education and Professional Development). Editor of Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier). Chairman of the Sub-commission 8 (Eurocode 8) of CT115 (Portuguese Technical Commission for Standardization of Structural Eurocodes). Representative of IPQ [Portuguese entity responsible for quality] at the Commission CEN/TC250/SC8.
Prof. Kejin Wang
Iowa State University, USA
Title: Engineering Binder Synergy for Sustainable, Durable, and High-Performance Concrete Infrastructure
Dr. Kejin Wang is the Anson Marston Distinguished Professor and the G.M.&T. Wilson Professor of Engineering, at the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, USA. She has over 20 years of research experience in concrete materials, including sustainable cementitious materials, concrete mix design, workability, durability, and advanced concrete technology. Her recent work on decarbonation of cement and concrete covers topics of the development and utilization of low carbon cement, carbon curing, and carbon treatment of waste materials for concrete construction, and it also intersects with her research on 3D concrete printing, which delves into mixture formulation and interlayer bonding characterization of 3D printable conventional, ultrahigh performance, and geopolymer concretes. She has published over 240 journal papers and serves editorial roles in various journals, including the Senior Editor of Journal of Construction and Building Materials and Associate Editor of American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE) Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering and American Concrete Institute (ACI) Journal of Materials. She is also a Fellow of ACI.
