Prof. Dilum Fernando obtained his PhD in PolyU under the supervision of Prof. Jin-Guang Teng, President, and the advisory team of Prof. Tao Yu and Prof. Xiao-Ling Zhao. His PhD topic was to investigate the behaviour of FRP-to-steel bonded joints.
After graduation in 2010, Prof. Fernando joined Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland as a postdoctoral fellow, and University of Queensland in 2013 as a lecturer. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019 and was appointed as the deputy director of the Centre for Future Timber Structures/Future Timber Hub, the leading timber research centre in Australia. In Jun 2021, Prof. Fernando joined the School of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh as the Chair in Structural Engineering.
Prof. Fernando has collaborated with Prof. Teng and Prof. Yu of PolyU CEE for various research projects, which won several national and international awards including BERD-FEUP Prize for World Innovation in Bridge Engineering, Create Magazine’s Australia’s 30 Top Most Innovative Engineers Award, and UQ’s Excellence in Innovation 2019 Award.
Prof. Fernando intends to continue his research and further expand his industry translational research to better serve society. He is also dedicated to developing a world leading educational program to produce Structural Engineers, who are capable of designing structures using advanced materials and technologies to minimize resource consumption and CO2 emissions.
