Seyed Amir Mehrdad Mohammad Hejazi, Ph.D. ,

Mehrdad Hejazi is a Full Professor of Architectural Heritage & Heritage Structures in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. He is the Vice-President of ICOMOS ISCARSAH (International Scientific Committee on the Analysis and Restoration of Structures of Architectural Heritage). He is an expert member of ICOMOS-ISCARSAH, and the chief adviser to the Iranian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism. He is the first scholar who has investigated Persian architecture from a structural engineering viewpoint and has published six books and more than 70 journal papers and 120 conference papers, mostly on this subject. He is an expert in the structural analysis, assessment and restoration of Persian historical buildings made of adobe and brick masonry. He has been the director of structural restoration of a number of National and World Heritage Sites in Iran. Recently, he has been working on scaled laboratory tests on traditional materials, re-design of traditional gypsum-based and lime-based mortars of a few centuries old, disaster risk management plan (DRMP) of World Heritage Sites, and fire risk assessment and management plan (FRMP) of World Heritage Sites. Mehrdad Hejazi is the Coordinator of the "UNESCO UNITWIN Network on Structural Restoration and Disaster Risk Management of Architectural Heritage" established in the University of Isfahan. This Network unites the expertise of 11 universities, 1 intergovernmental organisation and 1 governmental entity spanning 11 countries across Asia, Africa, South America, and Europe.