Use of Recycled Plastics in Eco-efficient Concrete

F. Pacheco-Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho, Portugal. He holds the title Counsellor from the Portuguese Engineers Association. He has authored more than 300 publications, 119 in Scopus and 107 in Web of Science-WoS. His publications have been viewed or downloaded almost 500,000 times. He currently holds the record for the highest Platinum SCI h-index and the highest K-index in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. He is in the Top 10 Platinum SCI h-index in the world for the field of construction and building materials. He is a member of the editorial board for 9 international journals, 5 referenced on Web of Science and two referenced on Scopus. He currently holds the record for the highest ratio (papers handled as editor/year) in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. He has acted as a Foreign Expert in the evaluation of 18 PhD thesis. In the last 10 years he has been a Member of the Scientific Committee for almost 60 conferences most of them in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 13 countries, UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Poland and, the EU Commission. He has also been an invited reviewer for 125 international journals and has reviewed almost 1000 papers. His review record places him at the Top 0.1% between 2 million reviewers registered in Publons. He currently ranks second place between more than 10.000 reviewers in civil engineering. He has been leading editor of 22 international books published by Woodhead Publishing, Elsevier and Springer, 10 being on the Master Book List of Web of Science. He currently holds the record for having the highest number of books indexed in WoS in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal. Two of those books are the Scopus most cited ever in the field of Civil Engineering in Portugal.

Principal Investigator, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

Jamal Khatib is a Professsor of Civil Engineering (Construction Materials) in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. His research interests are mainly in the area of sustainable construction/structural materials subjected to different environmental conditions, and the use of waste and novel materials in construction applications.

Professor of Civil Engineering (Construction Materials), Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, UK

Francesco Colangelo is Professor of Environmental and Industrial Risk Assessment at the University of Naples “Parthenope” and the Scientific Director of the CRI-TEST Innovation Lab, Naples, Italy. His main research work covers the recycling of waste materials in concrete and for geo-environmental and civil applications and the application of life cycle assessment methodology to different processes for the preparation of innovative building materials. He is also interested in the evaluation of the durability of mortars and concretes, the stabilization/solidification of hazardous wastes and the synthesis of geopolymeric eco-sustainable materials based on industrial waste. He has a long experience in consultancy in the following fields: treatment and recycling of solid waste, remediation of old landfills, resource recovery plants. He has been and still is the scientific manager of a number of research projects with public and private companies. Since 2012, he is a senior member of RILEM. He is the director of the Master Course in Safety Engineering at the Department of Engineering of the University of Naples "Parthenope".

Professor of Environmental and Industrial Risk Assessment, University of Naples “Parthenope”, and Scientific Director, CRI-TEST Innovation Lab, Naples, Italy

Rabin Tuladhar is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean Learning and Teaching (ADLT) at the College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Australia.

Centre for Tropical Environmental and Sustainability Studies, James Cook University, Australia