Pre-Congress Courses

Ueli Angst obtained his degrees in civil engineering from ETH Zurich in Switzerland (MSc, 2005) and from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU (PhD, 2011). He gathered 7 years, some of it part-time, of practical experience as corrosion consultant. In 2017, inspired by having seen the relevant questions in engineering practice, Ueli Angst established his research group “Durability of Engineering Materials” at ETH Zurich (www.ifb.ethz.ch/durability). The mission is to develop new and fundamental understanding about corrosion mechanisms to enable better assessments and predictions of the performance of engineered materials and structures across disciplines. His research group uses experimental and computational methods covering corrosion science, electrochemistry, materials science, porous media, reactive mass transport, and civil engineering. Ueli Angst received several awards for his work, including the Robert L’Hermite medal awarded by RILEM in 2017, and he is active in various international committees. His research related to inspection and monitoring led to a SpinOff (www.duramon.ch), founded in 2021. 

Karen Scrivener has been Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Construction Materials in the Department of Materials of EPFL(Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne for the last 20 years. She is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering and author of over 200 journal papers. Her research focusses on the understanding the chemistry and microstructure of cement based materials and improving their sustainability. In 2008, she came up with the idea for LC3 cement, this material has the potential to cut CO2 emissions related to cement by more than 400 million tonnes a year. She received her bachelor’s degree in Materials Science from the University of Cambridge in 1979 and her PhD from Imperial College London in 1984.

Nicolas Roussel is the head of the physico-chemistry of construction materials laboratory at Gustave Eiffel university, France. He is moreover the current president of RILEM. His research focuses on mix design, rheology and processing of construction materials. With 135 journal papers and more than 10.000 citations, his H-index is currently 54. He received in 2007 the Robert L'Hermite medal for his work on fresh concrete rheology and processing.

Céline Perlot is a full professor of the University of Pau (France) and, PhDs in Civil Engineering from the University of Toulouse (France) and the University of Sherbrooke (Canada). As a specialist in the physical chemistry of construction materials, she conducts research into microstructural characterization and transfers in earthen materials. She is the head of a scientific innovation chair of the Institut Universitaire de France on the effect of raw earth biostabilization on indoor building comfort, and co-chair of the TC BEC “Bio-stabilised earth-based construction”.

Arnaud Perrot has been professor at Bretagne Sud university, France, since 2007. His research topic mainly deals with construction materials rheology and processing. He is an active member of RILEM Technical Committees on concrete 3D printing and Deputy Chair of TC PEM “Processing of earthen materials”. He is also Associate Editor of RILEM/Springer Materials and Structures journal.