Christian Viau, Ph.D., P.Eng. is an Associate Professor of Structural Engineering at the Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering of Carleton University. He specializes in timber engineering, where he studies the response of timber structures, assemblies, elements, and connections when subjected to blast explosions, earthquakes, impacts, and other hazardous loads. He is a voting member of the CSA S850 Technical Committee on Blast Resistant Buildings, a subcommittee member of the CSA O86 and CSA S6, and was an active member of the European Union COST Action CA20139 “Holistic design of taller timber buildings”. He also served as Vice-Chair of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Wood Structures Committee.