Biographical note

Elham Maghsoudi Nia has obtained her PhD degree in” Civil Engineering” from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS in 2019. She obtained her Master degree from Universiti Putra Malaysia in “Architectural Studies”. Her study during PhD and MSc was focused on environmental issues and harvesting of renewable energies in urban context. She joined the TU Delft, Faculty of architecture in 2021 and started her research on “Energy Transition”. Currently, she is working on “Facilitating circularity in the construction sector”. Her interest is promoting sustainable and energy efficiency technologies and approaches in the buildings.

Lloyd Ling is the head of the Civil Engineering Department at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in Malaysia and an associate fellow of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology (AAET). He received his tertiary education in civil engineering and engineering management in USA. He also obtained MBA degree in finance and international business and prolonged his post MBA study at Stanford University. He served as the president of the industrial advisory board and as an adjunct faculty member for California State University, Northridge, from 2001 to 2004. He was a researcher under the California state, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and worked in the medical device manufacturing industry.
Mokhtar Awang is a professional engineer and an associate professor at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Perak, Malaysia. He is also a chartered engineer with Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, UK (IMarEST). He obtained his bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Detroit Mercy, MI, USA, and both master and doctorate degrees from West Virginia University, WV, USA. Mokhtar Awang had six years of experience in industry and over 18 years of academic experience in the field of finite element modeling and friction stir welding.
Sattar S. Emamian obtained his Doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia in 2018. He is a member of Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), and Netherlands Engineers. He has completed a post-doctoral research fellow at University of Malaya in 2019. Currently, he is a researcher at the University of Twente. He has published several ISI and Scopus indexed journals/proceedings as well as book chapters. His research areas are friction stir welding, additive manufacturing and materials science.