Vice President Africa - Dr. Marawan M. Shahien

Dr. Marawan M. Shahien

Marawan M. Shahien, PhD, PE

Dr. Marawan M. Shahien has 35 years of experience in practice, consulting, education and research. He has received BSc. in Civil Engineering with Class Honors from Kuwait University in 1987. Dr. Shahien received MSc and PhD in Civil Engineering-Geotechnical Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - USA in 1991 and 1998, respectively. As outstanding graduate student while in University of Illinois, he was honored to be fellow of both S.D. Wilson and R. B. Peck. In 1998, he joined Mid America Earthquake Engineering Research Center in University of Illinois for Postdoctoral research studies. In 1999, Dr. Shahien joined Tanta University. Currently he is Professor of Geotechnical Engineering and Foundations. In 2004, he received Norman Medal Award of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for authoring a paper judged worthy of special commendation for its merit as a contribution to Engineering Science. In 2020, he was recognized by Canadian Geotechnical Society as Honorable Mention of the R.M. Quigley Award for best paper published in Canadian Geotechnical Journal in the preceding year. He joined Hamza Associates on part time basis in 2001. He has been serving as head of geotechnical engineering department in Hamza Associates since 2005. He is registered geotechnical engineering consultant in the Egyptian Syndicate of Engineers. Dr. Shahien has wide spectrum of interests and experience in several fields of geotechnical engineering based on his involvement in practice, research and academia. His interest includes but not limited to geotechnical investigations and characterization, construction in soft ground, settlement analysis, stability analysis, ports and water front structures, underground construction, ground water control, instrumentation and monitoring, geo-environmental engineering, ground improvement, soil dynamics and liquefaction, deep foundations, bearing capacity of foundations of offshore structures, foundations of solar power plants and wind farms and geotechnical aspects of preservation of antiquities. In 2009, Dr. Shahien was the Secretary General of the 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ICSMGE) in Alexandria. Starting from 2015, he served as Secretary General of the first 4 conferences of the series of the International Conference on Advances in Structural and Geotechnical Engineering (ICASGE) held every other year in Hurghada. Dr. Shahien was the author and co-author of more than 100 technical reports and more than 70 publications in international impact journals and conferences. He served as a member of two Committees of the Egyptian Code of Practice 1) Deep Excavations and 2) Laboratory and Insitu Testing.