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Professor Weena Lokuge

Professor Weena Lokuge
Name Weena Lokuge
Pronoun She/Her/Hers
Position Professor (Civil Engineering)
Section School of Science, Engineering and Digital Technologies
Office B416
Location Springfield Campus
Phone +61 7 3470 4477
Extension 4477
Email
Qualifications PGCertTertT&L University of Southern Qld , MEng Asian Institute of Technology , PhD Monash University
Homepage https://research.usq.edu.au/researcher/80v3q/a-pr-weena-lokuge
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Biography

Professor Weena Lokuge is an expert in sustainable construction materials, fibre-composite structures, and the resilience of road infrastructure to natural hazards. With a PhD from Monash University and over two decades of academic and industry experience, she leads research in geopolymer concrete, recycling of reclaimed resources into engineered materials, and rehabilitation and asset management of bridges, culverts and floodways.

Weena has secured funding from the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub and the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, has supervised fourteen research students to completion, and serves as Discipline Leader for Civil Engineering and Construction at UniSQ, having been Associate Head of School (Research) from 2022 to 2025.

She received the 2021 Faculty Excellence Award for Research and the inaugural Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award for Women in STEM, and is an active member of Engineers Australia, the Concrete Institute of Australia, IPWEAQ, and the editorial boards of three international journals.

Research Career


  • Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified ( 090599 )
  • Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management ( 090505 )
  • Construction Materials ( 090503 )
  • Infrastructure Engineering And Asset Management ( 400508 )
  • Construction Materials ( 400505 )
  • Structural Engineering ( 400510 )
  • Civil Engineering ( 400500 )

Green construction materials-Polymer concrete, Geopolymer concrete
Constitutive behaviour of construction materials
Concrete structures- rehabilitation
Resilience of road infrastructure in extreme events
Durability of FRP composites


Institute of Engineers Australia
Concrete Institute of Australia
Australasian Association for Engineering Education


Member of Concrete Institute of Australia (Member of QLD Branch Committee)
Member of Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (Member of SEQ branch committee)
Editorial board member - Journal of Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience (Q1), Discover Concrete and Cement and Materials Circular Economy (Springer Nature)
Technical Reviewer: Construction and Building Materials, Journal of Composite Materials; Composite structures, Engineering structures, Composites Part B: Engineering, Case Studies in Construction Materials, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Structures.


  • Centre for Future Materials (CFM)

Teaching


CVL1201 - Civil Engineering Foundation A- Course coordinator
CVL2311 - Engineering Subsystem Design Project- Course coordinator
CIV5802 - Advanced Prestressed Concrete- Course coordinator


17 Years


3 Years


Discipline Leader (Civil Engineering and Construction)- January 2026 to date
Associate Head (Research)- August 2022-December 2025
Acting Associate Head (LT&SS)- February- June 2022
Discipline Research Coordinator - October 2019 - December 2021
Program Coordinator for Civil- June 2019- February 2021
Member of the Engineering and Surveying Safety Sub-Committee- June 2014 - December 20222

Supervision


  • Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified ( 090599 )
  • Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management ( 090505 )
  • Construction Materials ( 090503 )
  • Infrastructure Engineering And Asset Management ( 400508 )
  • Construction Materials ( 400505 )
  • Structural Engineering ( 400510 )
  • Civil Engineering ( 400500 )