Keynote Speaker
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Viorel Ungureanu

Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania

Viorel Ungureanu is Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Department of Steel Structures and Structural Mechanics, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Director of the Research Institute for Renewable Energy of the Politehnica University Timisoara. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Steel Structures of the Romanian Academy, Timisoara Branch. He is engaged in teaching at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level and is a PhD supervisor. Viorel Ungureanu’s main research area is in the field of structural engineering with particular expertise in steel structural members and systems, cold-formed steel structures, structural analysis and stability, numerical modelling, and sustainable constructions. He is the chairman of TC14 for Sustainability and Eco-Efficiency of Steel Construction and a member of the technical committees the TC7 for Cold-formed thin-walled sheet steel in buildings of the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS). Viorel Ungureanu is a member of the Technical Sciences Academy of Romanian (ASTR).