Aleksandrs Korjakins is a professor in the Institute of Materials and Structures in the Faculty of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Riga Technical University. He received his PhD in civil engineering from Riga Technical University in 1997. From 1999 to 2002, he worked as a docent at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Riga Technical University. He was the head of the Department of Building Materials and Units at Riga Technical University from 2001 to 2012. He has more than 30 years of experience in the field of sustainable traditional building materials, waste, and by-products, including in the hazardous waste recycling sector, the use of eco-materials, the production of renewable energy resources in industry, as well as in cement-based construction materials.