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Welcome from the Director
Q Welcome from the Director
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I am proud to present this annual report on our achievements at the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) during 2019. The report outlines the mission of the centre, its governance structure and finances. This report provides an overview of the progress of projects funded by competitive national schemes and industry, and the publications produced by staff and students throughout 2019.
You will see an overview of our teams’ impressive accomplishments during 2019 within this annual report. Collectively our members have secured over $2M research funding, graduated 21 PhD students and published 115 refereed journal papers. In December, the highly competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grants for projects starting from 2020 were announced. CIES staff secured three grants totalling $1.23M.
Six new core academic members joined CIES in 2019, broadening our interests and further strengthening the team. We had the great pleasure to welcome Professor Joshua Zhou, Dr Elena Atroshchenko, Dr Asal Bidarmaghz, Dr Sascha Eisentrager, Dr Ailar Hajimohammadi and Dr Ali Kashani.
We are delighted to celebrate the promotion of Associate Professor Adrian Russell to Professor with effect 1 Jan 2020. In 2019 we farewelled Associate Professor Arnaud Castel.
On behalf of the Executive Committee, I would like to thank all our staff and students who contributed so generously to the continuous success of the Centre. I would also like to express my sincere appreciation and thanks to our industry partners and advisory committee members for your strong support and contributions.
Professor Chongmin Song
