Geotechnical Engineering and Sustainable Construction

Geotechnical Engineering

Soil-Structure Interaction

Structural Dynamics and Earthquakes

Geoenvironmental Engineering and Sustainability

Transportation Geotechnique and Materials

Construction Management

Remote Sensing and Surveying Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Architectural Engineering

Water Resources Engineering

Prof. Mahdi Karkush is President of Iraqi Scientific Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering and Professor of Civil Engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering at University of Baghdad, Iraq. He received his Ph.D. in Civil Geotechnical Engineering from University of Baghdad, Iraq, in 2008. He pursued his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from University of Babylon, Iraq, in 1995, and M.Sc. in Civil Structural Engineering from University of Babylon, Iraq, in 1998. He has authored over 70 technical publications including 50 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has supervised over 22 of Ph.D. and M.Sc. students. He is a member of the editorial board of several world scientific journals. His outstanding research works in the fields of Geoenvironmental Engineering and Sustainability in Geotechnical Engineering, Foundation Engineering and Geomechanics. He is Fellow of the Iraqi Engineers Association (IEA), Iraq, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE), UK, Fulbright scholar, USA, and DAAD scholar, Germany.



Prof. Deepankar Choudhury is Prof. T. Kant Chair Professor and Head of Civil Engineering Department at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He received his Ph.D. Civil Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering from IISc Bangalore, India, in 2002 and received Prof. G. A. Leonard's Best PhD Thesis Award from IGS. He is an Humboldt Fellow of Germany, JSPS Fellow of Japan, TWAS-VS Fellow of Italy. He has authored over 300 technical publications including 160 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has supervised over 25 Ph.D. students. He is Associate Editor of ASCE-International Journal of Geomechanics and served as editorial board member of several world class journals like Soils and Foundations (Elsevier), Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (Springer), Geomechanics and Engineering (Techno-Press) etc. He is Fellow of the ASCE, USA (F.ASCE), Fellow of The National