Name:		Dr. Salah Altoubat (Faculty Member, Ph.D, MASCE, MACI)
Company: Address:		University of Sharjah Department of Civil Engineering University of Sharjah Sharjah, United Arab Emirates	Email: saltoubat@sharjah.ac.ae

Short Profile of the Person:
Dr. Salah Altoubat is an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Sharjah. He received his Ph.D in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He has industrial and academic experience in North America and in the Middle East. His expertise spans materials engineering, structural engineering and civil engineering infrastructure.

Dr. Altoubat is a recipient of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Wason Award for the most meritorious paper in the year 2003. Previously, he was a senior research associate at W. R. Grace, Cambridge, USA. He has been involved in consulting work at the national and international levels. His current research interest includes durability aspects and sustainability of concrete structures; structural applications of fiber reinforced concrete; seismic evaluation and risk mitigation; rehabilitation of civil infrastructures; high performance concrete; early age behavior of concrete, creep, shrinkage and cracking of concrete.