Aliakbar Gholampour is a Senior Lecturer in Civil and Structural Engineering at Flinders University. He has extensive experience in research on the development of sustainable construction/building materials and technologies. He worked in ARC-Training Centre for Advanced Manufacturing of Prefabricated Housing (ARC-CAMPH) at the University of Melbourne and was project manager and research leader of three research projects in Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) round 8. His multidisciplinary research spans fundamental and applied aspects of material science, structural engineering and chemistry.