Rate My Professor Faiz Shaikh

Professor Faiz Shaikh is a Professor in the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Curtin University, Faculty of Science and Engineering. Listed under Structural Engineering, he earned his PhD in civil engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2005, along with an M.Eng and B.Sc. Eng. He joined Curtin University in February 2009 as a Lecturer, was promoted to Senior Lecturer from January 2013 to December 2016, Associate Professor from January 2017 to December 2022, and Professor thereafter. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) of Australia, a Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), and a member of the Concrete Institute of Australia.

Professor Shaikh's research specializations include concrete technologies, sustainable construction materials, geopolymer concrete, and fiber-reinforced cementitious composites. His academic interests focus on the sustainable use of industrial by-products such as fly ash, blast furnace slag, ferro-nickel slag, lithium refinery residue, and silica fume for partial cement replacement in concrete; construction and demolition wastes, recycled glass aggregates, waste tyres crumb rubber, and copper heap leach residue as aggregates; and development of geopolymer concrete using fly ash-slag blends or lithium refinery residue-fly ash. He has led research projects in these areas, securing Australian Research Council Discovery Project grants including DP160104557 ($524,630) and DP200102784 ($240,000), as well as a Waste Authority competitive grant ($50,000). With over 268 peer-reviewed publications, his work has amassed more than 15,000 citations on ResearchGate and 10,100 on Google Scholar. Key publications include 'Behaviour of Carbon and Basalt Fibres Reinforced Fly Ash Geopolymer Concrete' (2018), 'Influence of Nano Silica Particles on Durability of Flax Fabric Reinforced Geopolymer Composites' (2019), and 'Effect of fabric orientation on mechanical properties of cotton fabric reinforced geopolymer composites' (2026). He has supervised 11 PhD students and 3 MPhil students to completion and currently supervises 6 PhD students.