Professor Xiangming Zhou
Head of Department - Civil & Environmental Engineering

Membership and affiliation

Peer esteem

• Coordinator, European Commission Horizon 2020 funded Green INSTRUCT project (grant agreement no.: 723825) with a total budget of €4,996,626 (EC contribution).
• Scientific Manager, European Commission 7th Framework Program funded FIBCEM project (grant agreement no.: 262954) with a total budget of €2,747,570 (EC contribution) and also a Work Package Leader.
• Work Package Leader, European Commission Horizon Europe, MARIE Skłodowska-CURIE ACTIONS, Research Staff Exchange (RISE) funded CSTO2NE project (grant agreement no.: 101086302, with a total grant of €1,361,600.00.
• Work Package Leader, European Commission Horizon 2020, MARIE Skłodowska-CURIE ACTIONS, Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) funded REMINE project (grant agreement no.: 645696) with a total grant of €567,000 (EC contribution).
• Member, TC MRP – Measuring Rheological Properties of Cement-based Materials, International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM)
• Member, TC DFC – Digital Fabrication with Cement-based Materials, International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM)
• Member, Technical and Education Committee, Institute of Concrete Technology
• Committee Member, Thames Valley Branch, Institution of Structural Engineers
• Invited Member, Industrial Forum for Standards and Uses of Alkali Activated Cements, UK
• Haitian Visiting Professor in Structural Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China
• Visiting Chair Professor in Concrete Materials & Structures, University of Ji’nan, Ji’nan, China
• Adjunct Professor, Wuhan University of Technology, China.
• New Millennium Yuelu Visiting Scholar, College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China

External appointments

• Editorial board member of Advances in Concrete Construction: An International Journal of Sustainability and Innovation in Concrete Construction, Techno Press.
• Associate Editor, journal of Frontiers in Materials – Structural Materials / Frontiers in Built Environment – Structural Materials.
• Member, Editorial Board, Scientific Reports (Engineering).
• Member, Editorial Board, Buildings, MDPI.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, Edinburgh Napier University.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, University of Manchester.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, University College London.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, University of Brighton.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, University of Greenwich.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, Lancaster University.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, University of Sheffield.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, Coventry University.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, University of Bath.
• External Examiner, PhD thesis in Civil Engineering, University of Beira Interior, Portugal.
• External Examiner, MSc in Civil Engineering, MSc in Coastal Engineering, University of Plymouth
• External Examiner, BEng Civil Engineering (Dundee International Institute of Central South University), Dundee University.
• External Examiner, MSc Advanced Structural Engineering (FT/PT) course, Edinburgh Napier University.
• External Examiner, BSc Civil Engineering course, Ulster University.
• External Panel Member of the event at University of Derby for validation of BSc(Hons) Civil Engineering, & BSc(Hons) Mechanical Engineering and approval of the proposed collaborative arrangements for the franchise delivery of the two courses with Mediterranean College, Greece, November 2012, University of Derby.
• External Panel Member for validation of extended degree programs in Engineering (i.e., BEng(Hons) Electronics and Electrical Engineering; BEng(Hons) Mechanical and Design Engineering; BEng(Hons) Architectural Design Engineering; BEng(Hons) Civil and Construction Engineering; BEng(Hons) Telecommunications and Network Engineering) for Applied Science University, Bahrain, March 2015, London South Bank University.
• External Panel Member for approval of MEng Civil Engineering course, September 2015, London South Bank University.
• Member, EPSRC Peer Review College, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council from 2017
• Member, EPSRC Engineering Programme Grant Interview Panel, 15 February 2017, Polaris House, Swindon, UK. The panel assessed a grant portfolio of £18 million.

  https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewPanel.aspx?PanelId=1-44R7R2

• Invited peer reviewer for grant proposals submitted to the EPSRC (i.e. first grant scheme, standard responsive mode, & early career fellowship, future leadership fellow, Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre proposals,  UKRI ISCF Foundation Industry Network Plus proposal), etc.
• Invited Expert Evaluator for Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe (i.e. remote individual evaluation, remote consensus group evaluation & central evaluation) for Horizon 2020 WIDESPREAD-05-2017: Twinning call proposals, Horizon 2020 WIDESPREAD-05-2019: Twinning call proposals, and Horizon Europe - HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS-01-two-stage (proposal value €15 million each), HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03 etc.)
• Invited Reviewer for Hong Kong Research Grants Council, including General Research Fund (GRF), Research Impact Fund (RIF), Faculty Development Scheme (FDS), NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme, Early Career Scheme (ECS), and Collaborative Research Fund (CRF), etc.
• Invited Reviewer for Croucher Foundation Senior Research Fellowship application.
• Independent Reviewer for Royal Society Industrial Fellowship application.
• Independent Reviewer for Royal Society Newton Advanced Fellowship application.
• Independent Reviewer for UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) proposal, 2017.
• Independent Reviewer for Leverhulme Trust Research project grants.
• Independent Reviewer for European Science Foundation.
• Independent Reviewer for Cyprus’ Research and Innovation Foundation (RESTART 2016-2020, Excellence Hubs (Bridge Programmes) etc.)
• Independent Evaluator for Cyprus’ Research and Innovation Foundation’s final project report (panel meeting & report assessment).
• Invited Reviewer for Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).
• Panel member, Research Council of Norway, for Collaborative projects to meet societal and industry-related challenges: Circular Economy (proposal value equivalent to €3 million each).
• Independent Reviewer for proposals submitted to Research Foundation Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO), Belgium.
• Independent Reviewer for proposals submitted to Austrian Science Foundation (FWF), Austria.
• Independent Reviewer for proposals submitted to Kuwait University.
• Independent External Assessor of academic promotion application, London South Bank University, 2023.
• Tenured Professorship external assessor, Riga Technical University, Latvia.
• External assessor for academic staff appointment, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
• External assessor for academic staff promotion, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
• External assessor for academic staff appointment, University of Macau, Macau.
• Independent assessor for academic staff promotion, University of Malaysia, Malaysia.
• Independent assessor for academic staff promotion to Reader, University of Surrey
• Research Excellent Framework output external assessor, UoA13, Liverpool John Moores University 2021.
• Invited peer reviewer for the following international journals:
  • Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering ASCE
  • Journal of Bridge Engineering ASCE
  • Journal of Structural Engineering ASCE
  • Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, ASCE
  • ACI Materials Journal (ACI)
  • ACI Structural Journal (ACI)
  • Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier)
  • Cement and Concrete Composites (Elsevier)
  • Cement and Concrete Research (Elsevier)
  • Engineering Fracture Mechanics (Elsevier)
  • Engineering Structures (Elsevier)
  • Computers & Structures (Elsevier)
  • Materials and Design (Elsevier)
  • Energy and Buildings (Elsevier)
  • Applied Energy (Elsevier)
  • Particuology (Elsevier)
  • International Journal of Mineral Processing (Elsevier)
  • International Journal of Mechanical Sciences (Elsevier)
  • Journal of Earthquake Engineering (Taylor & Francis)
  • The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings (Wiley)
  • RILEM Materials and Structures (Springer)
  • ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation (ASTM)
  • Science China Technological Sciences (English version) (Springer)
  • International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials (Springer)
  • Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering (Springer)
  • Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration (Springer)
  • Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Springer)
  • International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials (Springer)
  • Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering (Springer)
  • Engineering Computations (Emerald Insight)
  • Advances in Structural Engineering (Multi-science)
  • Steel and Composite Structures (Techno Press)
  • Structural Engineering and Mechanics (Techno Press)
  • Advances in Concrete Construction: An International Journal (Techno Press)
  • ICE Proceedings of Waste and Resource Management (ICE)
  • ICE Proceedings of Structures and Buildings (ICE)
  • Geoscience (MDPI)
  • Materials (MDPI)
  • Etc.

Conference Chair and Scientific Committee

• Chair, UK-China Workshop on Valorisation of Construction and Demolition Waste for Sustainable Infrastructure, 10-11 December 2021, co-funded by British Council and National Natural Science Foundation of China.
• Chair, Scientific & Technical Committee / Local Organization Committee, 2nd International RILEM Workshop on Rheology and Digital Fabrication of Cement-based Materials, 9 Jun 2017, Brunel University London, UK.
• Co-Chair, India-UK Workshop on Concrete Waste Recycling, 18 February 2022, Online.
• Member, International Scientific Committee, 10th International Conference on Concrete Under Severe Conditions – Environment & Loading, 25-27 September 2024, Chennai, India. https://consec24.com/index.php
• Member, International Scientific Committee, The International RILEM Conference on Synergising expertise towards sustainability and robustness of cement-based materials and concrete structures (SynerCrete’23), 14-16 June 2023, Milos Island, Greece. https://synercrete.com/
• Member, Scientific Committee, 6th International Conference on Natural Fibers (ICNF 2023), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 19-21 Jun 2023. https://www.icnf2023.fibrenamics.com/committees
• Member, International Scientific Committee, 5th International Conference on Innovative Materials, Structures and Technologies (IMST 2022), Riga, Latvia, 28-30 September 2022. https://imst.rtu.lv/international-scientific-committee/
• Member, Scientific Committee, Zero Waste Technologies 2022, 9-10 June 2022, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz, Poland. https://pbs.edu.pl/pl/nauka-i-badania/konferencje/zero-waste-technologies
• Member, Scientific Committee, The 3rd RILEM International Conference on Digital Fabrication with Concrete, 27-29 June 2022, Loughborough University, UK. https://www.digitalconcrete2022.com/committee/

• Member, Scientific Committee, The 5th International Conference on Natural Fibers (ICNF2021), Funchal, Portugal, 17-19 May 2021. https://www.icnf2021.fibrenamics.com/committees

• Member, Scientific Committee, 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, 6-9 July 2020, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. https://digitalconcrete2020.com/scientific-committee-2/
• Member, International Organizing Committee / Scientific and Technical Committee, REMINE International Conference + Brokerage Event + Lab Workshop (RICON2019), University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, 11-13 December 2019. https://www.ubi.pt/Entidade/ricon19_commitees
• Member, International Scientific Committee, International Doctorate Students Conference + Lab Workshop in Civil Engineering, 26-28 Jun 2019, Covilha, Portugal. https://www.ubi.pt/Entidade/startcon19_committees

• Member, Scientific Committee, RILEM Spring Convention and International Conference on Sustainable Materials, Systems and Structures (SMSS2019), Segment New Generation Construction Materials, Rovinj, Croatia, 18-22 March 2019. http://grad.hr/rilem.smss/new-generation-of-construction-materials/
• Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches for Cement-based Materials and Structural Concrete: Synergizing Expertise and Bridging Scales of Space and Time (Syner’18Crete), Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal, 24-26 October, 2018, http://synercrete.com/#committees

• Member, Scientific Committee, 1st RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, Zurich, Switzerland, 10-12 September 2018. http://digitalconcrete2018.ethz.ch/
• Member, International Scientific Committee, 8th International Conference on Silicate Materials (BaltSilica 2018), 30 May – 1 June 2018, Riga, Latvia. http://www.smi.rtu.lv/en/node/386
• Member, International Organizing Committee / Scientific and Technical Committee, REMINE International Conference + Brokerage Event + Lab Workshop (RICON2017), University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, 25-27 October 2017. https://ricon17.wordpress.com/organizing-scientific-commitees/
• Member, Scientific Committee, 3rd International Conference on Natural Fibers – Advanced Materials for a Greener World (ICNF2017), Braga, Portugal, 21-23 June 2017. http://www.icnf2017.fibrenamics.com/committees
• Member, International Scientific Committee, 7th International Conference on Silicate Materials (BaltSilica 2016), 26-27 May 2016, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania. http://ktu.edu/en/faculty-chemical-technology/baltsilica-2016
• Member, Organizing Committee, Collaborative Conference on Mining Science & Technology (CCMST 2015), Beijing, China, 6-9 Sept 2015. http://www.2conf.org/mining/committees/
• Member, International Advisory Committee, Collaborative Conference on Earthquake Science and Engineering (CCESE 2015), Chengdu, China, 15-18 Sept 2015. http://www.ccese.org/2015/committees
• Member, Scientific Committee, 2nd International Conference on Natural Fibers – From Nature to Market (ICNF2015), Azores, Portugal, 27-29 April 2015. http://www.icnf2015.fibrenamics.com/committees
• Member, International Scientific Committee, the 2014 International Conference on Advances in Concrete Construction (ICAC14), Busan, Korea, 24-29 August 2014.
• Member, International Advisory Committee, the International Conference on Green Materials & Structures for Sustainable Development (GMS14), Singapore, 25-26 August 2014.
• Technical Programme Committee Chair, 2nd International Conference on Computational Mechanics and Design Engineering (ICCMDE2012), Shanghai, China, 7-8 November 2012.

Invited Speaker

• Keynote Lecture, “Towards Assessing Cracking Tendency of Concrete under Restrained Shrinkage via Elliptical Ring Test Method,” 7th International Conference on Durability of Concrete Structures (ICDCS 2022), 20-22 May 2022 (online).
• Keynote Lecture, “Towards the Elliptical Ring Test for Assessing Cracking Potential of Concrete,” CIVILMEET2022, 23-25 May 2022, Munich, Germany (online).
• Keynote Lecture, “Towards Nano Additives on Improving Hydration of SCMs from Waste Stream,” Infrastructure and Civil Engineering World Forum, 21-22 March 2022 (online).
• Keynote Lecture, “Contrary Effects of NanoSiO2 on Silicate and Aluminate Hydration,” Advanced Materials and Methodologies in Circular Construction, 4 March 2022, online workshop organized by University of Porto, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway grants.
• Keynote Lecture, “Towards Alkali-activated Mining Waste as Sustainable Construction Materials: Fundamental Research and Applications,” UK-China Workshop on Novel Utilization of Mining Waste in Construction Materials, 19-22 May 2019, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
• Invited Plenary Lecture, “Alkali-activated Binder from Tungsten Mining Waste and Waste Glass,” 8th International Conference on Silicate Materials (BaltSilica 2018), 30 May - 1 June 2018, Riga, Latvia.
• Invited Plenary Lecture, “Characterisation of Rheology of Semi-solid Fresh Cement-based Materials for Extrusion: Experimental Techniques and Data Interpretation Theory,” 2nd International RILEM Workshop on Rheology and Digital Fabrication of Cement-based Materials, 9 Jun 2017, Brunel University London, UK.
• Invited Plenary Lecture, “Extrusion: A New Manufacturing Method for Precasting Cement-based Building Products,” 7th International Conference on Silicate Materials (BaltSilica 2016), 25-27 May 2016, Kaunas, Lithuania.
• Invited Lecture, “Simulation of the Mechanical Properties of Advanced Cement-based Materials – Rheology and Extrusion”, Gordon Research Conference on Advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure Development, 3-8 August 2014, Hong Kong.
• Invited Lecture, “Extrusion of Cement-based Building Materials and Products: An Overview.” Construmat R+D Showcase 2013, Barcelona, Spain, 21-24 May 2013.
• Invited Lecture, "Geopolymer-based Building Products Made by Extrusion,” 1st UK Conference on Applications of Geopolymers, Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, UK, 4 December 2012.

Professional Membership

• Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK
• Senior Member, International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM)
• Fellow, Institute of Concrete Technology (ICT)
• Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• Member, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), ASCE
• Member, American Concrete Institute (ACI)
• Member, International Masonry Society (IMS)
• Graduate Member, Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)
• Graduate Member, Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)

Awards

• Chinese Ministry of Education Natural Sciences Award (1st Class) for the research on “Seismic Effects on Building Structures: Theoretical Studies and Applications” (the 9th winner), 2006.