M. Hesham El Naggar

Distinguished University Professor; Director, Thompson Centre for Engineering Leadership & Innovation

M. Hesham El Naggar is a Distinguished University Professor and a world leader in foundation dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada and the American Society of Civil Engineers, and Editor-in-Chief of the international journals Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, and Urban Resilience and Earthquake Engineering. He has advanced the state of the art in soil-structure interaction analysis and the design of foundations for dynamic loads, publishing more than 800 technical papers and book chapters, including 565 papers in selective and prestigious journals (more than 21,500 citations, h-index 72), and has graduated more than 180 PhD and Master's students. In recognition of his research contributions he has received many prestigious awards, including the Cross-Canada Lecture Tour, Geosynthetics, Meyerhof and Canadian Geotechnical Colloquium Speaker awards from the Canadian Geotechnical Society and the Ontario Professional Engineers Medal for Engineering Research and Development, and his work has been recognised with several best paper awards in international journals and conferences.