Early Career Researcher Network event – 27th September
The latest seminar in the Early Career Researcher (ECR) network will be on Success in Academia.
The seminar will include a number of invited speakers who are distinguished professors and also editor-in-chief of well-known and highly ranked journals
| Agenda | |
| 15:00 | Welcome and Introduction Dr. Sina Moradi – CIB Programme Manager |
| 15:05 | Perspectives on How to Succeed in Academia Professor Chimay Anumba – University of Florida |
| 15:20 | Personal reflections on female careers in academia and the importance of mentoring Professor Martina Huemann – UCL |
| 15:35 | Different Paths to Success in Research: Impact and Citizenship Professor Ralf Müller – BI Norwegian Business School |
| 15:50 | Embracing the Path of Success in Academia: A Journey for Early Career Scholars Professor Nathalie Drouin – Université du Québec à Montréal |
| 16:05 | Panel discussion – with Sina, Chimay, Martina, Ralf and Nathalie |
| 16:20 | Q&A session |
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Success in Academia speaker biographies
Chimay Anumba
Chimay is a Professor and Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK; a higher doctorate – D.Sc. (Doctor of Science) – from Loughborough University, UK; and an Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.) from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. He has over 500 scientific publications, including 21 books and over 200 archival journal papers on aspects of construction engineering and informatics. His work has received over $150M in support from a variety of sources. He has also supervised more than 56 doctoral candidates to completion and mentored over 25 postdoctoral researchers. Chimay is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, FREng and a member of the US National Academy of Construction. He is also a past recipient of the ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award.
Nathalie Drouin
Nathalie holds a PhD from Cambridge University, UK, a post-doctorate École Polytechnique de Montréal, an MBA at HEC Montreal, and a bachelor’s degree in law, University of Sherbrooke. From 2016 to 2023, she was the Executive Director at KHEOPS, an International Research Consortium on the Governance of Large Infrastructure Projects and she is now the Chairholder of the research chair INFRA-S. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, a full professor in Project Management at the Department of Management, ESG UQAM and Adjunct Professor at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia.
Her research looks at governance of major infrastructure projects, the integration of non-financial benefits, social impacts of infrastructure projects, organizational project management, balanced leadership in projects and megaprojects. She is a member of the Board of Directors of CARGOM and also a member of the Global PM World Academic Advisor team and the Program Advisory Council, PM Program at Northeastern University in Toronto. She received four prestigious research awards: the IPMA Global Research Award (2019) for her work on balanced leadership in projects; the Walt Lipke Award (Australia) on the governance and control of major projects; the 2021 PMI Cleland Award for the book Organizational Project Management: Theory and Implementation and; the 2022 PMI Research Achievement Award. These awards were obtained in collaboration with her colleagues Ralf Müller, BI Norwegian Business School and Shankar Sankaran, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Martina Huemann
Martina is the Professor for Major Infrastructure Delivery at BSSC, University College London and Professor at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, where she is Academic Director of the MBA program: Strategic Project Management. She has published widely on topics such as project careers, stakeholder engagement, sustainability, and project management. For her research on HRM in project-oriented organisations, she received the IPMA Research Award. Martina is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Project Management and Founding Editor-in-Chief of Project Leadership and Society. She has strong practice links and serves on the board of project management austria, the academic advisory board of the German Project Management Association and NETLIPSE, a network of large European infrastructure projects. She was member of the IPMA research board and at the PMI Academic Advisory Group.
Martina strongly believes in co-creation between practitioners, scholars and policy makers to create better futures. Martina is co-founder of enable2change a network of independent experts to translate strategy into action.
Ralf Müller
Ralf is Professor of Project Management at BI Norwegian Business School and Editor-in-Chief of the Project Management Journal®. He lectures and researches in leadership, governance, and organizational project management. His research appears in more than 300 academic publications and is acknowledged by PMI, IPMA, Emerald, and others with more than 20 awards, including several lifetime achievement awards. The Stanford University list of top global scientists ranks him among the Top 2% of the most influential researchers, Research.com among the Top four scientists in Business and Management in Norway. Prior to his academic career, he spent 30 years in the industry, including a time as Worldwide Director of Project Management at NCR Corporation.
