About me
Narayanan Neithalath is the Fulton Professor of Structural Materials in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University, USA. He obtained his PhD from Purdue University in 2004 in the area of infrastructural materials. He has extensively worked on developing novel and sustainable construction materials including new types of cements and concretes for infrastructural construction, design of structural systems, mitigation of climate change through novel manufacturing approaches for materials and digital construction or 3D printing of concrete. He leads large NSF and DOE funded projects on reducing carbon impacts in cement manufacturing and concrete production and is actively working with several established cement companies and start-ups in this field. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and delivered keynote addresses in conferences all over the world. He is actively engaged in industrial consulting for a multitude of companies in the green energy and materials sector, as well as for infrastructure and construction companies. He is a member of the advisory board for multiple green material start-ups, and the technology developed by his group at ASU has resulted in multiple industrial start-up companies. He is a Fellow of the American Concrete Institute and has won several coveted awards including ASCE’s Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize.
