Prof.dr. Scarpas (Tom) Athanasios

Biography

Prof. A. Scarpas research interests include constitutive modelling of pavement materials, pavement mechanics & design, chemo-mechanical modelling of ageing and healing in asphaltic materials, wheel-pavement interaction, modelling of moisture induced damage in asphalt mixtures, non-linear finite element analysis techniques and mechanics of multiphase media.

He is an active member of a number of organisations, the chairman of the ISAP Technical Committee on Constitutive Modeling of Asphaltic Materials and has been the secretary of the RILEM Technical Committee on Cracking in Asphalt Pavements and the chairman of the FHWA Expert Task Group on Fundamental Properties and Advanced Modeling of Bituminous Materials.

Prof. Scarpas is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Pavement Engineering and an editorial board member of several professional journals. 

He is the recipient of an MTS Professorship from the University of Minnesota, Adjunct Professorships from Harbin Institute of Technology and South East University in China, the IACMAG Excellence Award and is an honorary member of the Italian Society of Infrastructural Engineering. He has organized several international Conferences, Workshops and Seminars.

• Ph.D Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• M.Sc. University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• B.E. McGill University, Canada