The Neville Centre Annual PhD Competition and Symposium 2025

The Neville Centre of Excellence in Cement and Concrete Engineering, University of Leeds, and The Concrete Society invite you to the 2025 Neville Centre Symposium and the annual PhD conference.

The Neville Centre of Excellence in Cement and Concrete Engineering, University of Leeds, and The Concrete Society cordially invite you to the 2025 Neville Centre Symposium and the annual PhD conference, Friday, December 25th, commencing at 10:00am and concluding around 14:30.

The conference theme this year is ‘Advanced Concrete Manufacturing’. The event is free of charge and will be held online.

During our annual PhD conference, four shortlisted candidates for the best national PhD in cement and concrete are invited to present an overview of their PhD dissertations, culminating in the announcement of the Adam Neville Prize for 2025.

Keynote speakers

• Professor Kim Van Tittleboom, professor in the field of Sustainable Structures, Ghent University;
• Associate Professor Reza Moini, Princeton, whose research is focused on bio-inspired design & development of architected materials using novel additive manufacturing processes & automated robotic technologies for applications in civil infrastructure;
• Professor Richard Buswell, Loughborough University, with over 30 years of experience building systems engineering in both industry and academia; his research is multidisciplinary in nature, and he has led several large research projects in the fields of building performance and 3D concrete printing; and
• Associate Professor Pawel Sikora, University of Leeds, whose primary research interests are nanotechnology and 3D printing technology in construction.
• We’ll profile all of our speakers in the run-up to this year’s event.

Short history:
The Adam Neville Prize for the best national PhD in the field of cement and concrete in 2018. The Neville family donates this prize to honour the late Professor Adam Neville. Professor Neville was President of The Concrete Society from 1974 to 1975 and was head of the University of Leeds’ Department of Civil Engineering from 1968 to 1978. He was recognised internationally as a world-leading expert in concrete and wrote a seminal textbook, Properties of Concrete (Prentice Hall, 2011), known globally as the ‘concrete bible’ by engineering students.

The award, a £2,000 cash prize, is open to all students in the UK who are studying for a national PhD, either full or part-time, in the field of cement and concrete.

This year’s Symposium will be a hybrid event; please choose from one of the registration options:

• Secure your ticket for the 2025 Neville Centre Symposium via TicketSource.