Dr. Afzal Husain Khan works in the Civil and Architectural Engineering Department at Jazan University, Saudi Arabia. He received his PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia, and B.E. and M. Tech degrees from the Aligarh Muslim University, India. He is an academic editor of PLOS ONE, Advances in Civil Engineering (Wiley), Associate Editor in TEIEE, and Guest Editor in Elsevier/Springer/Frontiers journals. He has been involved in many funded projects under the Deanship of Scientific Research (DSR) in Saudi Arabia. He has 90+ peer-reviewed publications (h-index >30; >3000+ citations), 4 books (edited), 6 patents, and 5 book chapters to his credit.
Dr Akhtar is based at the University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is a reviewer for many journals: such as the KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, Material Cycles, and Waste Management, and the International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology. His work on sustainable, self-compacting, and green concrete was published in the Journal of Materials Research and Technology (Elsevier), Construction and Building materials (Elsevier), and the Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management (Springer Japan). Recently, he received the Best Researcher Award for the Academic Year 2021-22 from Fahad Bin Sultan University Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
Professor Bani-Hani, based at the Jordan University of Science and Technology, is active in research in nanotechnology, material science, sustainability, energy harvesting, SHM, structural control, vibration; optimization; soft computing; and experimental methods.