Chairs & COMMITTEEs

Organizing committee

Chairs:

Kamilla Vasconcelos

Ana Jiménez del Barco Carrión

Emmanuel Chailleux

Co-chairs:

Mayca Rubio Gámez

Davide Lo Presti

Clémence Queffélec

Chris Williams

Liang He

Wim Van den bergh

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.

Ana Jiménez del Barco Carrión - University of Granada, Spain

Dr Jiménez del Barco Carrión is an Associate Professor at the Construction Engineering and Engineering Projects at the University of Granada in Spain. Her expertise is on sustainable engineering, focused on transport infrastructures. Her research lines involve the development of effective techniques for the recycling of wastes and the use of alternative materials in transport infrastructures, including their sustainability assessment. Her career has always been developed in an international context with her participation in European projects including partners from all over the world. She developed her PhD thesis on the design and characterisation of reclaimed asphalt mixtures with biobinders, and has worked in international projects dealing with biomaterials such as BIOREPAVATION and BioROAD, working with biomaterials at decreased temperatures. She is author of more than 25 indexed publications.

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.

Mayca Rubio - University of Granada, Spain

Dr Rubio Gámez is a full Professor specialized on the design and mechanical performance of materials for transportation infrastructures. Since 2010 she is the Head of the Research Group “Laboratory of Construction Engineering” (LabIC) at UGR and since January 2017 she is the Coordinator of the Civil Engineering Doctoral Programme. She has 25 years of experience on research for the development of innovative materials for road pavements. She is author of more than 75 JCR publications and co-author of 3 patents, managing more than 6 M€ research budget. She is a member of EATA Steering Committee, RILEM Technical Committees and ASEFMA, among other prestigious associations related to transport infrastructures and asphalt industry.

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”.

Clémence Queffélec, University of Nantes, France

Dr. Clémence Queffélec is an associate professor at the University of France since 2010. Dr. Queffélec is an organic and material chemist and she has been working on the topic of valorization of biomass for roads for a decade in close collaboration with Dr. E. Chailleux at the University of Gustave Eiffel. She is well experienced in the chemical analysis of products obtained after hydrothermal liquefaction such as liquid and solid state NMR, elemental analysis, GC-MS, GPC, FT-IR and Raman spectroscopies and FT-ICR-MS. She is involved with several projects dealing with bio-bitumen.

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.

Liang He, Chongqing Jiaotong University, China

Liang He, Professor of Road Engineering at Chongqing Jiaotong University, Director of China-Poland Joint Research Center for Sustainable Pavement Innovative Materials, Young Leading Talent of International Highway Transportation Science and Technology, Chongqing Young Bayu Scholar, CSC National Senior Research Scholar, China Association for Science and Technology Science and Technology Talent Award Review Expert, Leader F5000 Paper Winner, the main research directions are asphalt pavement materials and maintenance methods, road material multi-scale simulation, road infrastructure sustainable analysis, etc. He is the PI of 4 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and 2 intergovernmental scientific and technological cooperation projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, published 1 English book, authorized 5 invention patents, published more than 50 journal papers, served as the young editorial board member of the Journal of Transportation Engineering (EI), the executive editor of Materials Review (EI), the editorial board member of Archives of Civil Engineering (EI), and the guest editor of the RCR special issue Sustainable pavements and circular economy: Future challenges toward a zero waste society.

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 .