Meet the editor

Sayed Hemeda received a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently, he is the manager of heritage science programs at the Liberal Arts and Culture Center (LACC) and a professor at the Basic and Applied Science Institute (BAS), Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST). He is the first professor of Heritage Science and Architectural Preservation of Architectural

Heritage, Conservation Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Egypt. He is also the former manager of historic buildings, Conservation Center of Archeology, Cairo University. Dr. Hemeda is the recipient of many awards from Cairo University including prizes for scientific excellence (2017), the Scientific Encouragement Prize (2014), and the best Ph.D. thesis (2009–2010). He was also awarded the General Union of Arab Archaeologists prize for academic excellence (2019). He has published 85 articles and 29 international books and has been cited 330 times. He has given more than 58 invited lectures in 16 countries. His primary interests are geotechnical engineering for architectural heritage preservation and engineering data analysis including pattern recognition as applied to primarily analytical data from various sources such as objects of cultural significance. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Advances in Geological and Geotechnical Research. He is an editorial board member for many organizations and publications, including the Open Journal of Geology, Progress of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Geoscience Journal. He is also a scientific and organization committee member for many international conferences .
