Professor Mahen Mahendran is a professor of structural engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the leader of an active research group known as QUT’s Wind and Fire Lab. He has more than 25 years of research and teaching experience in structural, wind and fire engineering. More than 65 Higher Degree Research students including 50 PhD students have completed their research under his principal supervision. He works closely with the building industry and is involved in many research projects with them, focusing on cold-formed steel structures and wind and fire-resistant building construction. He has authored 300 peer-reviewed research journal and 300 conference articles and has received many industry and government grants valued at more than $6M. He is a member of the Standards Australia Committee BD-082 for Cold-formed steel structures AS/NZS 4600, and has contributed to the Fire Design Sections in AS/NZS 4600: Section 9 and Appendix G. He is also a member of the National Association of Steel Framed Housing (NASH) Standards Committee. Mahen is a Fellow of Engineers Australia.