CENTER FOR SMART INFRASTRUCTURE - Key Persons


Aisha Sobey

Job Titles:
  • Student

Alex Glyn-Davies

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  • Student

Andrius Ovsianas


Benjamin Boys


Dee Dee Frawley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CSIC Core Management Team
  • Programme Manager

Dr Ajith Parlikad


Dr Brian Sheil

Job Titles:
  • CSIC Director

Dr Cedric Kechavarzi

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager
  • CSIC Operations Manager

Dr Chi-Ho Jeon

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  • Visiting Researcher / Chung - Ang University

Dr Dongfang Liang

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  • Lecturer in Civil Engineering Fluid Mechanics

Dr Farhad Huseynov

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  • Senior Research Associate

Dr Fiorella Dell

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  • Member of the CSIC Core Management Team

Dr Haitao Lan

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  • Research Associate

Dr Haris Alexakis

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  • Lecturer in Civil Engineering

Dr James Talbot

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  • Lecturer in the Performance - Based Design of Structures
Dr James Talbot Lecturer in the Performance-based Design of Structures pt1000@eng.cam.ac.uk

Dr Jason Sun

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Dr Jennifer Schooling

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Member of the CSIC Core Management Team
  • Director of CSIC
Dr Jennifer Schooling has been CSIC Director since 2013. She is passionate about changing the way the infrastructure and construction industries view data, to become a vital asset in its own right, and as an engineering tool for tackling the key challenges facing our industry, including climate change, resource constraint and resilience. She is a member of the Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG) and the Infrastructure Client Group's Digital Transformation Task group (DTTG). She was on the steering group for the ICE State of the Nation Reports in 2017 and 2020. Jennifer is founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Smart Infrastructure and Construction Proceedings journal (ICE). She also serves on BSI and ISO committees developing standards for digitalisation in the built environment. She was awarded the OBE for services to engineering and digital construction in 2019, and was the recipient of the 2019 ICE President's Medal.

Dr Junqing Tang

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  • Associate Professor, Peking University

Dr Kristen MacAskill

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  • Lecturer in Engineering, Environment and Sustainable Development

Dr Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong

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  • Senior Research Associate

Dr Li Wan

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  • Lecturer in Chinese Urban Development
  • University Lecturer in Chinese Urban Development

Dr Manu Sasidharan

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  • Research Associate

Dr Matthew DeJong

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  • Assistant Professor Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials, University of California, Berkeley

Dr Miguel Bravo Haro

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  • Lecturer in Sustainable Civil / Engineering

Dr Mohammed Elshafie

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  • Associate Professor

Dr Monika Kreitmair

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  • Research Associate

Dr Nicky de Battista

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  • Research Associate

Dr Nicola Moretti

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  • Research Associate

Dr Nikolaos Tziavos

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  • Lecturer in Structural

Dr Nikolas Makasis

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  • Research Associate

Dr Omar Abo

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  • Research Associate

Dr Petia Tzokova


Dr Sam Cocking

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Dr Sam Stanier

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering

Dr Timea Nochta

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant in Urban Systems and Infrastructure at CSIC

Dr Viviana Angely Bastidas Melo

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • CSIC Research Associate, Named Runner - Up in Prestigious Bennett Public Policy Prize 2024

Dr W. Allen Marr

Job Titles:
  • Founder and CEO of Geocomp

Dr Xiaomin Xu

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  • Research Associate

Dr Ying Jin

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  • Reader in Architecture and Urbanism

Fanny Seizelles

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  • Student

Haritha Jayasinghe

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  • Student

Iain Rolland

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  • Student

Ioannis Brilakis

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  • Professor

Isaac Newton

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  • Trust / Newnham College Research Fellow

Islam Alfalouji

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  • Student

James Kinch

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  • Student

Janet Chang

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  • Student

Jessica Krishan

Job Titles:
  • Centre Coordinator

Justin Bunker

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  • Student

Laing O'Rourke

Job Titles:
  • Construction Engineering
  • Lecturer in Construction Engineering

Lord Robert Mair

Job Titles:
  • Founding Head of CSIC
  • Giulia Viggiani - Partner Day 2019 - 590 X 288
Professor Lord Robert Mair, is the Founding Head of CSIC and Emeritius Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He was President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) 2017-2018, its 200th Anniversary year. Lord Mair is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering. Prior to his appointment to a Professorship at Cambridge, he worked in industry for 27 years as a Geotechnical Engineer, and was a founding Director of Geotechnical Consulting Group (GCG). He has advised on numerous tunnelling and major civil engineering projects in the UK and worldwide, including the Jubilee Line Extension, Crossrail, HS1 and HS2. Appointed an independent crossbencher in the House of Lords in 2015, Lord Mair was until recently a member of its Select Committees on Science and Technology and on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning.

Maggie Palaeologou

Job Titles:
  • Senior Tunnel Design Engineer

Mark Girolami

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Professor Mark Girolami is a Computational Statistician having ten years' experience as a Chartered Engineer within IBM. In March 2019 he was elected to the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering within the Department of Engineering, where he also holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering. He is Chief Scientist at the Alan Turing Institute, where he leads the Lloyd's Register Foundation Programme on Data Centric Engineering. An elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, he currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Statistics and Computing and the new open-access journal Data Centric Engineering published by Cambridge University Press.

Mingda Yuan


Nicole Badstuber

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant in Urban Systems and Infrastructure

Paul Fidler

Job Titles:
  • Computer Associate

Sabuhi Essa

Job Titles:
  • Student

Sir Kirby Laing

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge
  • Professor of Civil Engineering, Chief Scientist, the Alan Turing Institute
  • Professor of Civil Engineering, Data - Centric Engineering Programme Director, the Alan Turing Institute

Teresa Irigoyes Lopez

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  • Student

Thomas Gaskin

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  • Student

Tianlei Wu

Job Titles:
  • Member of the CSIC Core Management Team
  • CSIC Finance Manager

Tobias Carrigan

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  • Student

Viktor Drobnyi


Viorica Pătrăucean

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate, CSIC

Wei Bi

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  • Student

Yannis Zachos

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  • Student

Zhiqi Hu

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  • Student