Prof. Zongjin LI
Macau University of Science and Technology, China
Dr Zongjin LI is Chair professor at Macau
University of Science and Technology. He received
his B.E. from Zhejiang University in 1982 and
obtained both his M.S. and PhD from Northwestern
University, Chicago, in 1990 and 1993, respectively.
He is a fellow of American Concrete Institute, Chair
of China Group of RILEM and Founding President of
ACI China Chapter. As the chief scientist, he has
led a China Key National Basic Research Project
(973), ‘Basic study on environmentally friendly
contemporary concrete’ that promoted the concrete
research in China to a world-class level. He also
founded the Gordon Research Conference, ‘‘Advanced
Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure
Development’ in 2014.
He is pioneer in noncontact resistivity/impedance
measurement for cement-based materials and lead the
research activities in this area for about 20 years.
He also developed cement-based piezoelectric and
opened a new direction for civil engineering. The
methodology he developed to utilizing the in-situ
polymerization of monomer during cement hydration
process has shown a strong effect in enhancing
flexural strength of cement-based composite. He has
published 5 technical books, in which ‘Advanced
Concrete Technology’ published by John Wiley has
been collected by many national libraries and major
university libraries and used by many universities
as text or reference books for civil engineering. He
has also published more than 400 technical papers
with a Google Scholar citation of 24958 and H-index
of 86. He has also been awarded eight US and twenty
Chinese patents. Three of his patents have been
developed into commercial products.
He received the Arthur R. Anderson Medal from
American Concrete Institute in 2017 and
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award from British
Royal Academy of Engineering in 2014.
Prof. Ing. Milan Holický
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Prof. Dr. Milan Holický
got his civil engineering degree at the Czech
Technical University in Prague, and doctor degree at
the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is involved
in the research of structural reliability and risk
assessment. Since 1965 he is employed at the Klokner
Institute of CTU in Prague and lecturing at the
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Faculty of
Architecture of CTU in Prague.
He is an author or co-author of more than 300 scientific and technical publications including textbooks and five monographs (three in English, published by Elsevier and Thomas Telford Publications). He is actively participating in international research within CIB (Conseil International du Batiment), JCSS (Joint Committee for Structural Safety, particularly in WP 2 Risk Assessment) and in international standardisation within ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation). Since 1991 he has represented the Czech Republic in the European Committee for Standardisation CEN (Comité Européen de Normalisation) in the Technical committee TC 250 "Structural Eurocodes”.
Since 1990 Prof. Holicky closely cooperates with BRE Watford, UK, since 1997 he is BRE Associate. In 2010 he became Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 2011 he was awarded degree Honorary Doctor of Science and Engineering of Moscow State University of Civil Engineering. Recently Prof. M. Holický was a coordinator of several research and educational European projects concerning Eurocodes. Presently he is a leader of the project team CEN/TC/250 SC2.PT1 developing Technical specification Assessment of existing structures.