Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference 2024, Volume 12

Dr. El-Salakawy is a Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering and former Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Engineering in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Manitoba. He was a Canada Research Chair in Durability and Modernization of Civil Infrastructures (2006-2016) in the same department. He carried out his Ph.D. research work and post-doctoral training in Structural Engineering at the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada (1996-2001) and then worked as a Research Professor at the University of Sherbrooke, QC, Canada for five years (2001-2006) before joining the University of Manitoba in 2006. Dr. El-Salakawy is an internationally renowned researcher and world-class leader in the field of structural engineering. Dr. El-Salakawy's research interests are in the field of concrete structures, particularly the durability, construction, design, seismic performance, large-scale laboratory testing and numerical analysis of Fiber-Reinforced Polymers (FRP)-reinforced concrete structures. He has published over 400 research papers in leading journals, international conferences, and book chapters on various aspects of reinforced concrete and composite materials. He supervised and trained more than 100 graduate students and highly qualified personnel (HQP). He is one of the highly cited researchers in his field with h-index of 44 (i10-index of 100) with more than 6,300 citations (on google scholar). Dr. El-Salakawy has also delivered keynote lectures at various national and international conferences.