Email: y.zhang10@aston.ac.uk

Phone: 44(0)121.204.3391

Address: MB226E, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK.

Yuqing joined Aston University as a lecturer in 2015 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2019 in School of Engineering and Applied Science. Prior to that, he was a research scientist at Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), USA. Yuqing received his PhD degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University under supervision of Prof. Robert L. Lytton. He was awarded BSc and MSc degrees from Southeast University in Nanjing, China.

Yuqing is now serving as the director of Aston Institute of Materials Research (AIMR) and leading an infrastructural material research group. His research is focused on durable, renewable and intelligent road infrastructures and materials. Yuqing looks forward to working with multidisciplinary academics, industries and governmental agencies on the relevant areas to build better roads for people's better life!

• 2019 - present: Senior Lecturer, Aston University, UK;
• 2015 - 2019: Lecturer, Aston University, UK;
• 2014 - 2015: Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, USA;
• 2013 - 2014: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, USA;
• 2008 - 2012: Graduate Research Assistant, Texas A&M University, USA;

• Renewable Construction Materials (bio-bitumen, plastic-bitumen, etc.)
• Multiphysics and Multiscale Modelling of Construction Materials;
• Performance Predictions of Road Infrastructures;
• Intelligent and Nondestructive Road Technologies for Smart Cities.

Research Profile in Google Scholar, ResearchGate and Personal Website. 

• EC1CMS: Construction Materials and Surveying
• EC2BDT: Building Design and Construction Technology 2
• EC3CT3: Construction Technology 3
• EC310A: Final Year Project
• EM4020: Master Degree Project and Dissertation

Current PhD Research Students:

• Mr. Yangming Gao - Multiscale adhesion modelling of asphalt materials
• Mrs. Eman L. Omairey - Long-term aging performance prediction of asphalt pavements
• Mrs. Charlotte Abdy - Waste plastics derived bitumen

I am open to supervise postgraduate and PhD research students in broad areas of road engineering, bituminous/asphalt materials, unbound granular materials, engineering mechanics, numerical modelling, infrastructural sustainability, nondestructive testing, etc. 

• The UK Higher Education Academy (HEA), Fellow
• International Road Federation (IRF), Fellow
• National Asphalt Research Consortium (NACR), Steering committee member
• International Society for Asphalt Pavements (ISAP), Member 
• RILEM, International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures, Member
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Associate Member
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), Member