Awards
- Le Chatelier Distinguished Paper Award 2021, Cement and Concrete Research, 2023
- Outstanding Paper Award, RILEM Materials & Structures, 2020
- Best Lecturer, CIVSOC Student Choice Award, 2017
- Best Paper in Magazine of Concrete Research, Institution of Civil Engineers, 2010
- W.C. Unwin Prize, Imperial College, 2006
External Positions
- Member, Scientific Committee, Global Cement and Concrete Research Network (Innovandi), 2020
- Member, Steering Committee, Global Cement and Concrete Research Network (Innovandi), 2020
- Member, FWO Expert Panel, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), 2019
- Member, ESF College of Expert Reviewers, European Science Foundation, 2019
- Member, APG Executive Committee, Applied Petrography Group (APG), 2018
- External Reviewer, RGC External Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2018
- Full Member, EPSRC Peer Review College, EPSRC, 2017
- Chair, Nanocem Scientific Committee, Nanocem, 2017
- Member, Nanocem Steering Committee, Nanocem, 2017
- Executive member, APG Calibration Trial Steering Committee, Applied Petrography Group, 2016
- Member, RILEM TC-262 SCI “Steel-Concrete Interface”, RILEM, 2016
- Working Party, Technical Report 32: Analysis of Hardened Concrete, Concrete Society
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Fellow, The Concrete Society, 2021
- Fellow, Institute of Concrete Technology, 2021
- Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, 2021
- Member, European Microscopy Society, 2021
- Member, Royal Microscopy Society, 2021
- Senior Member RILEM, International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures (RILEM), 2015
- Member of Concrete Society, Concrete Society, 2013
- Member of Institute of Concrete Technology, Institute of Concrete Technology, 2013
- Member of American Concrete Institute, American Concrete Institute, 2012
- Member of APG, Applied Petrography Group, 2010
Commercial Spinoffs
- Permia / Kiacrete, Co-Founder, High-strength clogging resistant permeable concrete, 2019
- Seratech Cement, Co-Founder, Magnesium silicate based carbon negative cement and construction materials, 2022
Editorial Boards
- npj Materials Sustainability, Editorial Board
- Advances in Cement Research, Associate Editor
- Infrastructures, Editorial Board
- Journal of Sustainable Cement-based Materials, Associate Editor
- Cement Concrete Research, Editorial Board
- Materials, Guest Editor