Chairs & COMMITTEEs

Kamilla Vasconcelos - University of São Paulo, Brazil

Kamilla Vasconcelos is Associate Professor at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, Department of Transportation Engineering. Dr. Vasconcelos has published more than 100 technical papers in journals and conferences. She is peer reviewer in several international journals, part of the Editorial Board of RMPD, and Associate Editor of IJPE and Transportes. She is chair of the RILEM Task Group ´Degree of Binder Availability´ of the Technical Committee 308 PAR (Parformance-based Asphalt Recycling), chair od the Tark Group ´Recyclability´ of the Technical Committee APS (Alternative Pavement Materials - Sustainability), member of the TRB Committee ´Binders for Flexible Pavements´ (AKM20) and Director-at-Large of ISAP. She is involved in different research projects related to Transportation Infrastructure with focus on Sustainability and Resilience in the past years.

Emmanuel Chailleux - University Gustave Eiffel, France

Since 2004, Dr Chailleux has been in permanent position at University Gustave Eiffel in the pavement department. His current instigations deal with bituminous binder performances, including rheological properties, viscoelastic modelling, ageing and cracking phenomena. He also conducts research to develop and characterise alternative binder from biomass. He is the chairman of the RILEM technical committee PIM (Phase and Interphase behaviour of bituminous Materials). He is the coordinator of several national and international projects dealing with Bio Bitumen, ALGOROUTE and BIOREPAVATION. He is the author of 43 research papers.

Davide Lo Presti, University of Palermo, Italy

Dr. Lo Presti’s background is civil engineering with a focus on transport infrastructure. His research is both applied and fundamental and focuses on developing solutions for engineering sustainability to preserve existing transport infrastructures as well as envisioning the future ones. This is done in constant collaboration with international multi-disciplinary researchers, from both academia and private sector, and with a two-fold approach: implementing new technologies and circular economy into material science, product development and infrastructure management, while tailoring life cycle analyses techniques for assessing the actual sustainability of the proposed solutions. He is now Associate Professor at the “Engineering Department” of University of Palermo, where he leads the SMARTIlab (http://smartilab.unipa.it), and teaches two courses on “Sustainable Transport infrastructure” and “Smart road, airports and railways”.

Chris Williams, Iowa State University, USA 

Dr. Williams has nearly 25 years of experience in asphalt materials and pavements research experience. He has served on numerous pavements and materials research projects, which includes being a co-PI for a chip seal design project with the Oregon Department of Transportation. Dr. Williams is also serving as a co-PI on an Iowa Department of Transportation project on pavement holding strategies (where more than preventive maintenance is needed but rehabilitation is not viable) that includes the use of chip seals and other similar pavement alternatives. He has worked on numerous projects associated with sustainability, including development and use of biomaterials in asphalt materials as rejuvenators, warm mix asphalt, biopolymers, and other applications.

Wim Van den bergh, University of Antwerp, Belgium 

Wim Van den bergh is professor Sustainable Pavements at University of Antwerp. He is the head of the research group SuPAR (sustainable pavements and asphalt research) and chair of the section Infrastructure of the department Civil Engineering. His expertise focuses on creating and developing new technologies and pavement structures with lower impact on climate and environment, alternative binders, sustainable recycling and  implementing IT in road construction processes to optimize quality and sustainability of asphalt pavements. He is internationally active in international research consortia such as RILEM, is a member of technical committees of Flemish institutes and agencies, coordinates the Erasmus programs and via networking he wants to bring people together for sharing passion and knowledge .