Dr. Christian Paglia
Head of the Institute of materials and Construction
Switzerland
Ph. D in Material Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in collaboration with Sika AG in Zurich. Post-doctoral Researcher in the Corrosion of Aerospace Aluminum Alloys Friction Stir Welds at the Material Science Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA, in collaboration with the Wright Patterson Air Force Research Laboratories. Responsible of a branch office of the Helbling Consulting Engineering Group, Zurich.
Director of the Institute of Materials and Constructions at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland. Book on circularity of cementitious materials. Publications on concrete, metals, corrosion and recycling of building materials. Editorial board member of materials and corrosion scientific journals. Member of the
CENTC 51 WG 14 Hydraulic binders for road bases. Member of the Swiss standard committee SIA 215 on mineral binders. Member of the environmental strategy working group for the EU Pave European concrete paving association. RILEM technical committee chair for roller compacted concrete for pavement applications, committee
member for the degradation of organic coatings, carbonation of concrete with supplementary cementitious materials, chloride bonding in concrete, concrete fire spalling and performance-based asphalt recycling. Member of the commission for the impartiality of the Swiss certification body for construction products S-CERT AG
(CH) / S-CERT FL GmbH (FL).
