Guest Editor Award
Dear Colleagues,
As the Editor-in-Chief of Materials, I am pleased to announce the two awardees for the 2021 Materials Guest Editor Awards.
Dr. Bora Gencturk is the Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Advances in Construction and Building Materials”, and is an Associate Professor in the Sonny Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Southern California (USC). He obtained his PhD and MSc degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BSc degree from Bogazici University. Dr. Gencturk’s research focuses on the durability and extreme event resilience of reinforced concrete structures, with an emphasis on the application of high-performance materials. He specifically studies the degradation of cementitious materials due to environmental aging and investigates the application of higher-performance materials to mitigate these issues.
Dr. Eva María Rubio and Dr. Ana María Camacho are the Guest Editors of the Special Issue “Manufacturing Engineering Society-2020 (SIMES-2020)”, which aimed to explore the evolution of traditional manufacturing models toward the new requirements of Industry 4.0 and how manufacturing professionals should face the resulting competitive challenges. Dr. Eva María Rubio is also a Full Professor of Manufacturing Engineering at the Department of Construction and Manufacturing Engineering of the E.T.S. of Industrial Engineers of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. She received her MSc in Aeronautic Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1997 and her PhD in Industrial Engineering from the UNED in 2002. Her scientific career has focused on the following research areas: analysis of machining and metal-forming processes, additive manufacturing, industrial metrology, and teaching and innovation in engineering. Dr. Ana María Camacho studies manufacturing engineering as her main research field, focusing on the analysis of metal-forming and additive manufacturing processes through computeraided engineering tools, analytical methods, and experimental testing in particular. She belongs to the “Industrial Production and Manufacturing Engineering-(IPME)” Research Group of the UNED.
With so many high-quality applicants the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the Award Committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.
Prof. Dr. Maryam Tabrizian
Editor-in-Chief, Materials
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