Antonios Kanellopoulos

I graduated with a BEng (Hons) from Cardiff University in 2000 in Civil Engineering and obtained an MSc and PhD degrees in 2001 and 2004 respectively from Cardiff University working the microstructural properties of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced Cementitious Composites and more specifically those affecting workability and self-desiccation. I then moved to Greece and worked as trainee civil engineer in order to obtain my professional engineering licence. In 2005 joined University College London to undertake an MSc in Project and Enterprises Management and following the completion of the course I joined Cardiff University to perform research funded by Laing O’Rourke on the behaviour of precast slab elements under positive and negative bending.

In 2007 I joined University of Cyprus (UCY) as postdoctoral fellow on a €255,000 project investigating experimentally and analytically the fresh and hardened properties of self-compacting concrete. In 2011, following the completion of the project at UCY, I took up a visiting lectureship in Frederick University Cyprus and in 2013 returned to the UK to join University of Cambridge as Research Associate. Between 2013 and 2016 I worked on Materials For Life consortium developing microcapsules, and other encapsulation techniques, for self-healing applications in cement-based composites. In October 2016, I joined Cambridge Graphene Center exploring the potential of using graphene in the manufacture and production of the next generation hybrid construction materials. Since July 2017, I joined the University of Hertfordshire as Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering with a focus on Advanced Construction Materials.

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• 2D materials and Civil Infrastructure
• Nano-technology in cement-based composites
• Digital fabrication and 3D printing in construction
• Self-healing materials
• Self-sensing materials
• Early age cracking in cement-based materials
• Sustainable cements and concretes
• UHPFRCCs
• High durability concretes

• Civil Engineering Materials
• Concrete Technology
• Sustainability in Construction
• Design of concrete structures
• Fracture Mechanics

Reviewer For:

• Construction and Building Materials
• Smart Materials and Structures
• International Journal of Fracture
• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
• ACI Structural Journal
• ACI Materials Journal
• ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
• ICE Structures and Buildings
• Journal of Civil Engineering and Management
• International Journal of Sustainable Energy
• Materials
• 6^th International RILEM Symposium on SCC – SCC 2010, Montreal
• 9^th International Symposium on High Performance Concrete – HPC 2011, Rotorua
• 7^th International RILEM Symposium on SCC – SCC 2013, Paris.

Invited Talks and Keynote Lectures

• “Self-healing construction materials: Learning from Nature”, Cambridge Science Centre – “Lifeworks” exhibition, October 2016
•  “Microencapsulation and bacterial healing for cement based composites”, The University of Hong Kong- People's Republic of China, 28/01/2015
• “Self-healing cement based composites using microencapsulation and bacteria” at “The Sino-UK Workshop on Self-Healing Materials”, Shenzhen - People's Republic of China, 23-25/01/2015
• Keynote lecture on “Mimicking nature: Developing concepts for self-healing construction materials” at Laing O’Rourke Graduate Conference Cambridge - UK, 09/12/2014
•  “Microencapsulation for self-healing of cement based composites” atGhent University - Belgium, 15-16/12/2014
• “Self-healing cement based composites using microcapsules”at “Repair Strategies for Civil Infrastructure” organised by CH2M Hill IDC, Swindon - UK, 05/12/2014
• “Development of self-healing construction materials”, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cambridge - UK, 24/10/2014
•  “Development of microcapsules for self-healing cement based composites” atTU Delft - Netherlands, 22-24/09/2014
•  “Self-healing materials for the hydrocarbon extraction industry” atTullow Oil Plc, London - UK, 16/04/2014
• Keynote lecture on “Learning from nature: Self-healing construction materials” at “Society of Petroleum Engineers Forum Series – Zonal Isolation to the Extreme”, Vilamoura - Portugal, 16-21/02/2014.