People
Faculty
Aase Reyes
Professor, Head of Research Group
Research interests: Metals; Aluminium; High-strength steel; Formability and fracture; Foam materials; Dynamic loading; Impact and blast loading; Machine learning; Digital twins
Gro Markeset
Professor
Research interests: Concrete structures; High Performance Concrete; Fiber reinforced concrete; Durability of concrete and Service life modeling; Residual service life of RC structures; Corrosion of RC structures; ASR of concrete
Vagelis Plevris
Adjunct Professor
Research interests: Finite Element Method (FEM); Static and Dynamic Analysis of Structures with FEM; Earthquake Engineering; Optimum Design of Structures; Reliability and Probabilistic Analysis of Structures; Neural Networks and their Applications in Engineering
Jian Dai
Associate Professor
Research interests: Structural dynamics; Large and very large floating structures; Hydrodynamic and hydroelastic performance of floating structures; Train-track dynamics; Liquid sloshing inside road/rail vehicles; Structural vibration under moving loads; Moving element method
Emrah Erduran
Associate Professor
Research interests: Concrete and steel structures under extreme dynamic loads; Structural dynamics; Nonlinear behavior of concrete; Linear and nonlinear response of structures to earthquake loads; Assessment of existing structures for earthquake safety; Performance based seismic design
Mahdi Kioumarsi
Associate Professor
Research interests: Analysis of RC and steel structures; Concrete technology; Corrosion in RC structures; Durability of concrete structures; Fiber reinforced concrete; Steel plate shear walls; Earthquake engineering
Awais Ahmed
Associate Professor
Research interests: Computational mechanics of materials, Advanced finite element methods (XFEM, phantom node method, phase field method), Fracture and failure in FRP composite laminates, polymers, asphalt concrete, and masonry structures, Response of structures to impact and blast loads.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Afaq Ahmad
MSCA Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Image Processing and CNN for SHM, ANN Prediction models for Concrete, GFRP for long-life RC Structures, FEM modelling of 3D Concrete Printing Structures.
Mohamed El Amine Ben Seghi
MSCA Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Structural reliability analysis, design optimization, maintenance and repair scheduling of existing structures, modeling degradation such as corrosion and fatigue damage, reuse and recycling, structural resilience and robustness evaluation, and the application of machine learning to engineering problems.
PhD Candidates
Kultigin Demirlioglu
Thesis title: Damage Detection of Structural Systems Using Real-Time Monitoring and Artificial Intelligence
Main Supervisor: Emrah Erduran
Samuel Ruiz Capel
Thesis title: Smart bulbous bow based on flexible materials
Main Supervisor: Aase Reyes
Research Interests: Marine Hydrodynamics, Hull Shape Optimization, Hydrodynamic Resistance of Ice-Going Vessels, Fluid-Structure Interaction
Sigbjørn Tveit
Thesis title: High-cycle fatigue failure of radically deep drawn marine grade aluminum for Floating Solar applications
Main Supervisor: Aase Reyes
Associate members
Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Head Engineer
PhD Candidate