Dr. Martin Noël is a Professor and Director of the Structures Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Ottawa. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Faculty of Engineering Early Career Researcher Award, the John V. Marsh Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the IIFC President Award. Several of his students have also been recognized with prestigious awards such as Vanier fellowships, Best Thesis Awards, as well as competitive scholarships from NSERC, OGS, and ACI.
Prof. Noël received his BSc degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Manitoba in 2009 and his PhD in Structural Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2013. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Queen’s University prior to joining uOttawa in 2015. He currently holds, or has held, appointments as Adjunct Professor at York University, Queen’s University and Shijiazhuang Tiedao University, and has been a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Structural Concrete at RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and the Concrete Innovation Group at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has delivered several invited presentations internationally and collaborates with leading research groups around the globe.
Dr. Noël’s research interests include the behaviour and durability of concrete structures and composite materials, as well as the use of sustainable building materials and structural health monitoring applications. He has conducted research in a variety of areas including the fatigue behaviour and durability of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures with FRP composite materials, the performance of structures in fire or in cold regions, and the use of structural health monitoring technologies such as fibre optic sensors and digital image correlation techniques.
He is an Executive Committee member and Treasurer for the International Institute for FRP in Construction as well as an active member of the American Concrete Institute. He is the former Chair of ACI Committee 215 (Fatigue), and is a member of ACI Committees 440 (Fiber Reinforced Polymers), 444 (Structural Health Monitoring and Instrumentation), and 555 (Concrete with Recycled Materials), as well as the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, the Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute, and the Canada Green Building Council. He is an Editorial Board member of highly respected journals including Construction and Building Materials (Elsevier) and the ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction and a member of the Scientific Committee for multiple prominent international conference series.
Please contact him for additional information regarding graduate student opportunities and research collaborations.
Martin Noël, PhD, P.Eng. 