Professor Isam Shahrour

Graduate from the National School of Bridges and Roads (Ponts et Chaussées - Paris), I have been strongly involved in research, higher education and partnership with the socio-economic sector. During the period 2007 -2012, I acted as Vice President “Research and innovation” at the University Lille1. I was also president of the Innovation Agency “Lille Metropole Technopole” for regional economic development via innovation.
My research activity concerns smart and sustainable cities, sustainable management of natural resources and geo-environmental Engineering.
For 10 years, I acted as director of the Regional Research Laboratory “Civil and Geo-Environment Engineering - LGCgE” (around 200 members included 90 PhD students).  
Since January 2011, I coordinate a large-scale Smart City project “SunRise: a large-scale demonstrator of the smart and sustainable city” which involves a large partnership with local government, water, energy and information technology providers and startups. I coordinated also the French partners of the European project “SmartWater4Europe”. I work with some cities and other local governments on the construction of road maps for smart city implementation.
I conducted an intensive research activity with a strong socio-economic partnership. My activity resulted in about 120 refereed journal papers (appendix 1) and the supervision of around 90 PhD (appendix 2) dissertations and more than 5 million Euros of industrial and public contracts.
Recently, I gave more than 30 lectures on topics related to cities: Sustainable cities, Smart cities, and Resilient Cities, including tow TEDx talks.
In addition to my courses at Lille University, I give lectures about the Smart and Sustainable City in different institutions such as Tongji University in Shanghai, American University of Sciences and Technology (AUST) in Beirut, ESPRIT in Tunis and Ecole Nationale d’Administration (l’ENA – Paris).