KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof Wynand Steyn is Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information technology and full professor (focusing on road pavement related subjects) at the University of Pretoria. He is a professionally registered pavement engineer with a research interest in vehicle-pavement interaction, accelerated pavement testing, pavement engineering, pavement materials and instrumentation.

He is a Member of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers, Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering (FSAAE) and has a B3 National Research Foundation (NRF) rating.

His professional activities include academic and industry research in the areas of pavement engineering, vehicle-pavement interaction and pavement materials. He has completed a synthesis of international accelerated pavement testing activities for the National Academies of Science in the USA, and is involved in projects with the South African National Roads Agency (pavement materials and vehicle loading projects) and the California Department of Transportation (vehicle-pavement interaction analysis of selected corridors).

He is author or co-author of 28 journal papers, 14 book chapters, co-editor of 4 books and proceedings and 97 conference papers. He is involved in various South African (SATC, CAPSA, SARF etc.) as well as international conference committees (GeoChina series, APT series, ICTI series).

He was chair of SATC from 2011 to 2015, and is co-chair of the 4th GeoChina conference and the 5th International APT conference. He is active in TRB through membership of the AFD40, AFS20, AFN15T and A0010 committees (various periods since 2007), an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Pavement Engineering (IJPE), member of the Academy for Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE) and serves on the board of the International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP).

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