Sep. 2020 Page 1 of 2 CURRICULUM VITAE
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Alaa M. Rashad
Academic rank Professor
Department Civil Engineering Telephone: +966 540922686 E-mail address: [email protected]
Scopus Web Page: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35389562000 ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5138-5452
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=54YINjsAAAAJ&hl=en Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alaa_Rashad
EDUCATION:
Degree Discipline University, country Duration
Post-doctoral Civil Engineering Queen's University – Belfast - UK
2008-2009
Ph.D. Structural Engineering Cairo University 2001-2005 Master Civil Engineering-Structures Engineering Cairo University 1997-2000 Higher Diploma Concrete Structures Engineering Cairo University 1994-1996 Higher Diploma Construction Engineering Cairo University 1992-1994 B.SC. Civil Engineering Cairo University 1985-1990 LANGUAGES:
Arabic : Native language
English: (Excellent Reading, Speaking, and Writing) ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
Professor at Building Materials and Quality Control. Dept., HBRC, Egypt, 01-2016 to present.
Associate Professor at Building Materials and Quality Control. Dept., HBRC, Egypt, 01-2011 to 01- 2016.
Assistant Professor at Building Materials and Quality Control. Dept., HBRC, Egypt, 01-2006 to 01- 2011.
Finishing post-doctoral in Queen's University, Belfast- UK.
Reviewer for more than 73 different journals most of them ISI.
Reviewer in different conferences.
Editor in different journals.
Participated a lot of conferences (inside and outside Egypt).
Teaching in Egyptian Russian University and Higher Technology Institute.
Teaching training courses for Civil Engineers in HBRC.
Teaching to expatriates from Arab countries in the Association of Arab Business Administration.
NON-ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
An expert in MOH - KSA, 01/2011 – 03/2017.
Supervision and follow-up construction projects.
Quality control / quality assurance of the projects
Tests of building materials in the laboratory.
Preview constructional safety.
Prepare the bill of quantities (BOQ) required for structures/buildings maintenance and repair.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Won the Third Prize for research paper presented in the Symposium on Disasters Management and Safety of Buildings in Arab Countries, which was held March 29th to April 1st, 2008 at the Ministry
Sep. 2020 Page 2 of 2 of Municipal and Rural Affairs in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under patronage of Council of Arab Ministers of Housing and Development of The Arab league and His Royal Highness Prince, Meteb Ibn Abdel Aziz Al-Saoud, the Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs.
Three Awarded certificates from Ministry of Housing Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on March 2017.
Peer Review Awards: according to Publons, Alaa M Rashad is top peer reviewer as well as excellent across the world, https://publons.com/researcher/1233641/alaa-m-rashad/peer-review/
Awarded certificate from Housing & Building National Center (HBRC) in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
PRINCIPAL PUBLICATIONS OF THE LAST FIVE YEARS (h. index 26):
1. Rashad Alaa M., "The effect of polypropylene, polyvinyl-alcohol, carbon and glass fibers on geopolymers properties", Materials Science and Technology, 35, 2, 2019, 127-146, https://doi.org/10.1080/02670836.2018.1514096.
2. Rashad Alaa M. and Mohamed Ezzat, "A preliminary study on the use of magnetic, Zamzam, and seawater as mixing water for alkali-activated slag pastes", Construction and Building Materials, 207, 2019, 672-678.
3. Rashad Alaa M., "Effect of nanoparticles on the properties of geopolymer materials", Magazine of Concrete Research, 71, 24, 2019, 1283-1301, https://doi.org/10.1680/jmacr.18.00289.
4. . Rashad Alaa M., "A synopsis manual about recycling steel slag as a cementitious material", Journal of Materials Research and Technology (JMRT), 8, 5, 2019, 4940-4955.
5. Rashad Alaa M., “Effect of steel fibers on geopolymer properties – The best synopsis for Civil Engineer”, Construction and Building Materials, 246, 2020, 118534.
6. Rashad Alaa M., “Performance of autoclaved alkali-activated metakaolin pastes blended with micro-size particles derivative from dehydroxylation of kaolinite”, Construction and Building Materials, 248, 2020, 118671.
7. Rashad Alaa M. and Essa Ghada M. F., “Effect of ceramic waste powder on alkali-activated slag pastes cured in hot weather after exposure to elevated temperature”, Cement and Concrete Composites, 111, 2020, 103617.
8. Rashad Alaa M. and Sadek Dina M., “Behavior of alkali-activated slag pastes blended with waste rubber powder under the effect of freeze/thaw cycles and severe sulfate attack”, Construction and Building Materials, 265, 2020, 120716, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2020.120716.
9. Rashad Alaa M., Khafaga Sherif A. and Gharieb Mahmoud, “Valorization of fly ash as an additive for electric arc furnace slag geopolymer cement”, Construction and Building Materials, 294, 2021, 123570, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.123570.
10. Rashad Alaa M. and Ouda Ahmed S, “Effect of tidal zone and seawater attack on high-volume fly ash pastes enhanced with metakaolin and quartz powder in the marine environment”, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 324, 2021, 111261, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2021.111261
11. Rashad Alaa M. and Mahmoud Gharieb, “Valorization of sugar beet waste as an additive for fly ash geopolymer cement cured at room temperature”, Journal of Building Engineering, 44, 2021, 10289, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.102989.
12. Rashad Alaa M. and Gharieb Mahmoud, “Solving the perpetual problem of imperative use heat curing for fly ash geopolymer cement by using sugar beet waste”, Construction and Building Materials,
Construction and Building Materials, 307, 2021, 124902,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2021.124902.
13. Rashad Alaa M. and Sadek Dina M., “An exploratory study on alkali-activated slag blended with microsize metakaolin particles under the effect of seawater attack and tidal zone” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Sep. 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-021-06151-z.
14. Rashad Alaa M. and Gharieb Mahmoud, “An investigation on the effect of sea sand on the properties of fly ash geopolymer mortars”, Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 6:53, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s41062-020-00421-9.
