Awards and other distinctions

A) Awards and other Distinctions

Awards:

1. Carbon & Sustainability Initiative of the Year in New Civil Engineer Tunnelling Conference, London for REAL - Re-purposed Excavated Arisings Loop, 7 Dec 2023.

2. IOM3 (Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining) Sustainable future award in the category of Enabling Net-Zero: Sustainable Materials & Technology category for the collaborative project with Arup, SCS Railways and University of Leeds.

3. Best poster for the paper titled Impact of carbonation on chloride permeability of composite Portland cement-slag-limestone concretes', 42nd Annual Cement and Concrete Science Conference, London, September 2023. (Lead author: Moro Sabtiwu, PhD student)

     iv.            One of the most downloaded paper in  2022 for the article titled ‘Hydration and mixture design of calcined clay blended cements: review by the RILEM TC 282-CCL’ the Journal of Materials and Structure

       v.            Best PhD Thesis in Concrete across India in 2020, ICI Awards 2022, 23 Sep 2022. 

6. Best poster for the paper titled 'Carbonation performance of ternary Portland slag-limestone mortars', 41st IOM3 Cement and Concrete Science Conference, Leeds (Lead author: Moro Sabtiwu, PhD student)

7. Best Oral presentation for the paper titled 'Fresh state properties of low clinker cement made of excavated London Clay from tunnelling operations', 41st IOM3 Cement and Concrete Science Conference, Leeds

8. Shortlisted as one of six finalists from around the world for the NanoCem PhD prize for the best PhD thesis on cement and concrete for the year 2021. (2000 Euro prize)

9. Outstanding PhD thesis on concrete, ICI- Chennai Chapter, Dec 2021.

10. Institute Research Award, IIT Madras 2020 for the contributions made from PhD work in Civil Engineering department at IIT Madras.

11. RILEM PhD Grant award to participate in the 74th RILEM Week and 40th Cement & Concrete Science Conference, 31 Aug – 4 Sep 2020

12. Received ‘Sinoma-Springer Young Researcher Award’ in 3rd International conference on calcined clay for sustainable concrete, New Delhi, 15-17th Oct 2019

13. Best project award for the undergraduate thesis titled “Experimental investigation on behavior of reinforced concrete beam and comparison with external post tensioned beam” by RMK Engineering College in 2015. The thesis work was carried out at CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre (SERC), Chennai.

14. Awarded enthusiastic civil engineer during National level symposium organised in Artifex event in SVCE, Chennai,2014

Other distinctions:

        i.            Awarded Distinguished Alumni award from RMK Engineering College in Nov 2016

   ii.            Active student engagement role: i) Student President (2013-2014), Civil Engineering Association, ii) Vice-President at Indian Concrete Institute's Student Chapter (2012-2013), RMKEC and iii) Postgraduate secretary (2017-2018), Civil Engineering Association, IIT Madras

Professional affiliations and commissions of trust

1. Member of RILEM from 2016 actively involved in several TCs of RILEM, including:

·         2020-current, 298-EBD: Test methods to evaluate the durability of blended cement pastes against deleterious ions

·         2020- current, 281-CCC: Carbonation of concrete with supplementary cementitious materials

·         2018-current 282-CCL: Calcined Clays as Supplementary Cementitious Materials

·         2017-2022, 267-TRM: Tests for reactivity of supplementary cementitious materials, 267 

·         2015-2017 238-SCM: Hydration and microstructure of concrete with supplementary cementitious materials

2. Elected as Chairperson for the Gordon Research Seminar on Construction Materials in Italy in 2022. Gordon Conferences are a prestigious series of conferences covering topics in frontier research in the biological, chemical, and physical sciences and their related technologies.

3. Coordinated and organized several symposiums and conferences. Notably, organising committee member of RILEM week in Chennai in 2017.

4. Scientific committee member, 3rd International Conference on Innovative Technologies for Clean and Sustainable Development, Chandigarh, India. Reviewer for the conference’s Materials Today: Proceedings, Elsevier, 2019) and ConSEC 2024

5. Organised an online workshop on the use of Recycled aggregate in concrete as a part of the SPARC project between IIT Madras, University of Cape Town and the University of Witwatersrand, Sep 2020. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BT4Mju7Cgs