Professor Ghassan Aouad

Professor Ghassan Aouad is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation and Dean of the College of Science and Technology at the University. Ghassan joined Salford in 1992 as a Research Fellow working on the Integrated Construction EPSRC-funded project. Prior to joining Salford, he spent five years in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering of Loughborough University, where he obtained his MSc in Construction (1987) and his PhD entitled Integrated Planning Systems for the Construction Industry (1991). Before becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor in July 2008, Ghassan was Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law & the Built Environment at the University (August 2006–July 2008), and prior to this he held the position of Director of the Research Institute of the Built & Human Environment which achieved the RAE 6* status in 2001. Between 2003 and 2006 he was Head of School of Construction & Property Management (since renamed to the School of the Built Environment) at the University.

Ghassan is also Co-Director of the £5m EPSRC funded Salford Centre for Research & Innovation in the Built & Human Environment, a visiting professor at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), and Fellow of the CIOB. Ghassan has spent the last 20 years teaching and researching subjects related to the areas of Information Modelling and Visualisation, nD simulation, and process mapping. His publications record includes over 78 refereed journal papers, 113 conference papers, and a number of books, book chapters and reports. He is also currently on the editorial board of several international journals, including Construction Management and Economics, and he has been an external examiner to more than 38 PhDs and successfully supervised 15 PhD students at Salford. As a principal investigator, Ghassan has generated over £10M to support research related to built and human environment processes and products, collaborating widely with many UK and international institutions, and has presented his work in more than 35 countries.

For further details, see Professor Aouad’s personal site.