CIHT East Midlands is delighted to organise this networking event with the CIHT East Midlands' Emerging Professional Chair, Dr Adjetey Rufus in collaboration with the University of Nottingham Postgraduate Engineering Society (PGES). This event provides an opportunity to hear from three local East Midlands speakers on their career paths and the career advice they could give for PhD students.
This will be held in person at the University of Nottingham.
In the first half, Dr Adjetey and the CIHT East Midlands Chair Dr Jwan Kamla, will provide an introduction of the CIHT at the event. President of the PGES, Karen, will then introduce the PGES Society committee. This will be followed by our three main speakers: Dr Anand Sreeram from University of Nottingham, Dr Tony Parry from AtkinsRéalis and Dr Guilia Siino from AECOM will deliver approximately 15 min presentations about their career paths and the career advice they could give for PhD students, respectively.
In the second half, we will look to network and continue the discussion in small groups, with both the speakers and our local CIHT East Midlands committee members joining the groups as well to answer questions and converse.
This event will be free and welcome to both CIHT members and non-members. This is also a great opportunity for students to learn more about CIHT and network with local CIHT committee members.
Light refreshments will be provided. Spaces are limited for this session so please book in advance to secure your place.
This event is mainly aimed at PhD students to explore their career options after PhD. It will also be of particular interest to any students or early career professionals who want to understand more about the transportation industry and CIHT. All members and non-members of CIHT are welcome to join.
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Dr Anand Sreeram - Assistant Professor in Transportation Engineering Dr. Anand Sreeram is an Assistant Professor in Transportation Engineering at the University of Nottingham, UK and the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre (NTEC). Formerly, he was a Marie Sklodowska Curie-Future Roads Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK. He completed his post-doctoral training at the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at the University of Texas at Austin, USA and received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR. |
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Dr Tony Parry - Associate, AtkinsRealis Tony has 40 years’ research and consultancy experience, the last 30 in road pavement engineering. He worked as a Research Assistant while completing his PhD and then entered research consultancy at TRL Ltd where he led work leading to UK road surface skidding resistance standards, and sustainability assessment of pavement engineering. In 2005, he joined the Nottingham Transportation Engineering Centre at the University of Nottingham where his research included novel skid resistance and road safety assessment methods and developing carbon footprint methodologies for roads, alongside teaching sustainable construction and highway design. He has worked at AtkinsRéalis since 2022 in the Digital Asset Management: Pavements team, on net zero and climate resilience projects for National Highways, Transport Scotland and local highway authorities. |
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Dr Giulia Siino - Senior Research Consultant, AECOM Giulia Siino is a Senior Research Consultant in the Research and Innovation team at AECOM, where she contributes to advancing projects primarily in the transportation field. She earned a PhD in Civil Engineering in 2022, with a thesis focused on "Geotechnical Asset Management for UK Railway Embankments." During her PhD, she also delivered lectures at the University of Nottingham, sharing expertise with the next generation of engineers. |
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