People

	Geert De Schutter Senior Full Professor		Geert.DeSchutter@UGent.be  +32 9 264 55 21
	Geert De Schutter is full professor ‘Concrete Technology’ and ERC Advanced Grant holder at Ghent University, Belgium. He is Master of Science (Ghent University, 1990) and Ph.D. (Ghent University, 1996) in Civil Engineering. He is fellow of RILEM and ACI, and member of fib. He is laureate of several national and international awards, among which RILEM Robert L’Hermite Award 2001 and ACI Anderson Medal in 2014. His research interests include rheology and casting, hydration and microstructure development, and durability of cementitious materials.
	Karel Lesage PostDoc Researcher		Karel.Lesage@UGent.be
	Karel Lesage is postdoctoral researcher at Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research. He is Master of Science (KULeuven, 2009) and Ph.D. (KULeuven, UGent, 2014) in Civil Engineering. His main research focusses on rheology of highly concentrated suspensions with a particular interest in experimental detection and control of particle interactions due to shear, surface chemistry, additives, etc.
	Mert Yucel Yardimci PostDoc Researcher		MertYucel.Yardimci@UGent.be
	Mert Yucel Yardimci received his PhD degree from Dokuz Eylul University Izmir-Turkey in 2008. He worked as PostDoc in Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) as an assistant professor in Karaelmas, Gediz and Istanbul Okan Universities in Turkey. He is currently working in an ERC Advanced Grant Project- SmartCast “Smart casting of concrete structures by active control of rheology” as a PostDoc with Prof. De Schutter's research group in Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research at Ghent University. He also partly works in InterAct project in a PostDoc position. His main research interests include rheology and the hardened state properties of cementitious materials.
	Serdar Aydin PostDoc Researcher
	Serdar Aydın received his PhD degree from Dokuz Eylul University (DEU) Izmir-Turkey in 2010. He has been working at the Construction Materials Division of the Civil Engineering Department of DEU as associate professor position since 2014. He works in InterAct project in a PostDoc position. His main research interests are alkali-activated materials, durability of concrete and ultra-high performance concretes.
	Xiaodi Dai PhD Student
	Dai Xiaodi graduated from Central South University with B.Eng First Class Honours in 2016, and obtained his M.Sc from National University of Singapore in 2019. He is currently pursuing his PhD and working in an Excellence of Science project-"Rheology of Alkali-Activated Materials" with Prof. De Schutter's research group in Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research at Ghent University. His main research interests include rheological and mechanical properties of cementitious materials.

Institution

Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research, Department of Structural Engineering

The Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research, is a well-known and leading research institute worldwide, actively contributing to research progress in the field of concrete structures and concrete technology. Research topics are ranging from the microstructural level (like hydration studies) to the large scale structural level. In this way, materials studies can be duly combined with structural studies, enabling a thorough understanding of the behavior. During the last decades, Prof. G. De Schutter has been guiding many research projects related to new types of concrete, like self-compacting concrete (SCC) and ultra-high performance concrete. Rheology of cementitious materials has become increasingly important during the last years. By fundamentally studying the underlying mechanisms controlling rheology, a better understanding of the behaviour of the fresh cementitious materials is aimed for.