Dr Zhaohui Huang
HP Lecturer - Civil Engineering

Summary

Academic and Professional Qualifications

• BEng., Fujian Forestry College, China, 1982.
• PhD., University of Central Lancashire, UK, 1995.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning for University Lecturers, University of Sheffield, UK, 2003.
• Full membership of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007.

Academic Career

• Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, Fujian Forestry College, 1982-1990.
• Visiting Research Fellow, Silsoe Research Institute, AFRC, 1990-1991.
• Research Fellow, University of Sheffield, 1996-2004.
• Lecturer, University of Sheffield, 2004-2011.
• Reader, Brunel University London, 2011-now.

Responsibility

Peer esteem

• Visiting Professor, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, since 2008.
• Editorial board member of “The Open Construction and Building Technology Journal”.
• Guest Editor of Special Issue on “Buildings’ Behaviour in Fire” for the Open Construction and Building Technology Journal (Volume 4, 2010).
• Invited expert to review the research proposals for EPSRC, “Swiss National Science Foundation”, “The Qatar National Research Fund” and “The Georgia National Science Foundation”.
• Member of the Scientific Committee for international conferences.
• Invited peer reviewer for numerous high quality international journals.

Award

• Recipient of 2005 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers for the best paper published on Journal of Structural Engineering, 2003.
• As one of the main developers of the designer's version of Vulcan, the software won two of the “British Computer Society's Annual Awards: the Technology: Applications category and the BT Innovation Flagship Award for Technology”, 2005.
• Recipient of Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship by Nanyang Technological University, 2005.

Consultancy

• Ahearne Fire Engineering Consultants Ltd (Ireland), Korean Institute of Construction Technology (South Korea), Corus (UK), Locke Carey (UK),  Arup (UK), Buro Happold (UK).