Philippe Bouillard

He began his career as a work manager for French major construction contractors, before starting an academic career by a teaching and research assistant position at the Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles (ULB) where he was promoted full professor in 2005. He is Fellow of the Institute for Civil Engineers (FICE) and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He is a former Vice-Rector and currently Head of BATir (Civil, Architectural and Urban Engineering) Dept and the Institute for Urban Design (IUAT). His main research activity was computational structural mechanics but in 2012 he redirected his research interest towards sustainable urbanism with a focus on infrastructure and mobility. He co-edited 3 books, is co-author of more than 75 refereed journal papers and 100 conference proceedings. He supervised several PhD theses and research projects. He is chair of the editorial board of the ICE Journal Civil Engineering. He received the Belgian National Science Foundation (FNRS) De Waele Award in 2000 and the Wernaers Award in 2012 for his effort to scientific dissemination towards a large public. Regarding teaching, Philippe Bouillard is coordinating the modules related to solid and structural mechanics, research methods in civil engineering, design project competition, and infrastructure and mobility. He has been deeply involved in the active learning student-centred reforms and he received the ULB Socrates Best Teacher Award (2008). His publications can be found here.