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Profile
| Academic position | Post Doc |
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| Research fields | Construction Material Sciences, Chemistry, Building Physics,Structural Engineering, Building Informatics and Construction Operation |
| Keywords | Sustainable Construction, Biocomposite, Natural Fiber, Composite Structure, Protection of Structure |
| Honours and awards | 2025: Advanced Research Opportunities Program (AROP) Scholarship 2025: Dr Krishna Sharda Award for PhD Thesis at IIT Delhi 2025: Honorary DAAD Research Ambassador 2025: TEDx Speaker 2024: Associate Member of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) 2024: Batch of 1969 Innovation Fellow Award by IIT Delhi 2024: International Travel Grant by Department of Science and Technology, India 2024: Invited Speaker and Chair of Session at the International Conference on Advanced Materials and Startup Ecosystem (ICAMSE) 2024 2024: Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Presentation Competition Winner by IIT Delhi 2024: Vishwakarma Award 2024 by Maker Bhavan Foundation 2023: Associate Member of American Concrete Institute (ACI) Technical Committees: 216 Fire Resistance, 355 Anchorage, 369 Seismic Rehab 2023: Best Poster Award at the Global Indian Young Scientists Research and Innovation Conference 2023 2023: Industrial Research and Development (IRD) Student Startup Grant by IIT Delhi 2023: Research Scholar Travel Award (RSTA) by IIT Delhi 2022: DAAD Young Ambassador 2020: Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Degrees/Cotutelle Research Grant by DAAD 2020: 2020 The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) DUO-India Fellowship Award by ASEM 2019: PhD Scholarship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India 2016: MTech Scholarship by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Aachen |
| Institution | Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH) |
| Institute | Institut für Stahlbau |
| Homepage | https://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/a/?lidx=1 |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Libo Yan | Fraunhofer-Institut für Holzforschung - Wilhelm-Klauditz-Institut (WKI), Braunschweig |
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Programme(s)
| 2025 | International Climate Protection Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Manisha Kushwaha, Kusum Saini, Vasant Matsagar: Strengthening Brick Masonry Structures with Natural Fiber Elements for Enhancing Earthquake Resistance. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. Springer, 2025. 389–402 |
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| 2024 | Kusum Saini, Vasant A Matsagar, Venkatesh R Kodur: Recent Advances in the Use of Natural Fibers in Civil Engineering Structures. In: Construction and Building Materials, 411, 2024, 134364 |
| 2023 | Kusum Saini, Akanshu Sharma, Vasant Matsagar: Numerical Investigations on Anchor Channels under Quasi-static and High Rate Loadings - Case of Concrete Edge Breakout Failure. In: Computers and Concrete, 32, 2023, 499-511 |