Team members

Associate professor, IROAST, Kumamoto University, Japan

Adjunct Professor, ENISE, University of Lyon, France

Principal Investigator, Lab. for High performance and sustainable building materials and structures

Dr. Cai's research activities range from structural design and building materials (durability and sustainability), which forms two themes of his research, i.e., the safety of structures under extreme loadings (e.g. earthquake); and reuse and recycling of building wastes arising from the extreme loads, in particular applications of the wastes in concrete industries. His research has been conducted using advanced numerical methods, algebraic analysis, and experimental verification. Dr. Cai is performing many collaborations with international leading academic partners and local industry partners.

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Education

2014.9, Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, Kobe University, Japan

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Work experience

(1) Adjunct Professor, 1/2018-,  Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes, ENISE, University of Lyon, France

(2) Research Teach. Fellow, 01/2018-09/2018, Faculty of Sciences, Technology and Communication, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

(3) Teaching Fellow, 01/06/2017-14/01/2018, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University of Belfast, United Kingdom 

(4) Researcher, 01/2017-06/2017, Department of Structural Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

(5) Assistant Professor, 01/2015-01/2017, CERG, Faculty of Engineering and Technology (FIIW), Hasselt University, Belgium 

(6) Project Researcher, 10/2014-, Department of Architecture, The University of Tokyo, Japan

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Contributions to Intl Journals:

(1) Editors

Buildings, IF 2.648, Topic editor 

Advances in Civil Engineering, IF 1.924, Academic editor

(2) Guest editors (for special issues)

2.1 Sustainability, IF 2.592 (Closed)

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Civil_Infrastructures_Sustainability_Recent

2.2 Buildings, IF 2.648 (Opening)

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings/special_issues/Innovat_Struct_Material_Analy_Des_Appl

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Reviewers (Main)

Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, IF: 2.021, Q1; 

Engineering Structures, Elsevier, IF: 2.258, Q1; 

ACI Structural Eng., ACI, Q1.

Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Springer, IF: 1.899, Q1 ; 

Journal Earthquake Eng., Taylor & Francis, IF: 1.044, Q1; 

Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Eng., Elsevier, IF: 1.545, Q1; 

Advances in Structural Engineering, SAGE, IF: 0.829, Q2

Case Studies in Construction Materials, Elsevier, Q1;

Journal of Building Eng., Elsevier, Q1;

CCC,Elsevier, Q1;

Journal of Hazardous Materials, Elsevier, IF: 6.065, Q1; 

Construction and Building Materials, Elsevier, IF: 3.168, Q1

Structural Concrete, Journal of the fib, Wiley, IF: 1.424, Q1; 

Journal of Cleaner Production, Elsevier, IF: 5.651, Q1;

Applied Sciences, MDPI, IF: 1.679, Q3; 

Materials, MDPI, IF: 2.654, Q1; 

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External PhD examiner

Indian Institute of Technology (ROPAR)

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Membership: 

-International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM), staff member (2017~present)

-Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ), student member (2011~2014), member (2018~)

-Japan Concrete Institute (JCI),  member, (2011~) 

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Members of committee

Member, Structural Committee, Kyushu Branch, Architectural Institute of Japan, 2019-

Member, Tech. Committee, JCI-TC193A  Japan Concrete Institute, 2019-

Member, Wall Structure Committee,
Overseas Masonry Seismic Subcommittee, Architectural Institute of Japan, 2019

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Contribution to international conferences

Member of Scientific Committee, The 2nd Int’l RILEM/COST Conference on Early Age Cracking and Serviceability in Cement-based Materials and Structures. Brussels, Belgium, 2017 (Link)

Member of Committee, The 8th Global Conference on Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE 2019), SANYA, China, 2019 (Link)

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Google Scholar

ResearchGate

Konstantinos (Kostas) Daniel Tsavdaridis is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering at City, University of London (UK). He started his career at City, University of London as a Lecturer in Civil/Structural Engineering in 2010. He did a break to work in the industry as Principle Structural Stress Specialist for the Nuclear industry, and then continued his academic career at the University of Leeds as Assistant and later Associate Professor of Structural Engineering, until he joins City again, as a Full Professor of Structural Engineering in 2021.

Prof. Tsavdaridis' Group focuses on static, quasi-static and dynamic full and large-scale laboratory-based testing on steel and steel-concrete composite structural members and systems. In 2014, he contributed to the successful EPSRC Strategic Equipment Grant proposal funding a Multi-Axial Shaking Table (EP/L022648).

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