Mustafa?Sahmaran?is currently working as a Full Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of Hacettepe?University, Turkey. His research interests include micromechanical design and durability of high-performance and ultra-ductile cementitious composites, recycling industrial and natural waste products into useful construction materials, concrete durability under mechanical and environmental loadings, new-generation multifunctional cementitious composites with self-healing and self-sensing functionalities and nano-modification in cementitious systems. Prof.?Sahmaran?has authored or co-authored over 200 technical publications in his career, including more than 100 refereed journal papers. He is currently the Director of the Advanced Building Materials Laboratory at?Hacettepe?University. Over the past few years, 13 PhD and 30 master students have completed their degrees under his supervision/co-supervision. He has also received several prestigious young scientist awards from various national and internationals organizations, e.g., the Province of Ontario Fellowship in 2007,?the Eser?Tümen?Research and Young Scientist Award in 2012 and 2014, the Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist Award in 2012, the Prof. Dr. Mustafa N.?Parlar?Education and Research Foundation Young Scientist Research Incentive Award in 2013, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey’s Young Scientist Incentive Award in Engineering in 2014, and the Society of Science Heroes’ Scientist of the Year Award in 2015. In 2018, Mustafa?Sahmaran?was selected to receive the American Concrete Institute (ACI)?Wason?Medal for Materials Research for his co-authored paper on the proposition of new supplementary pre-conditioning procedure that can accelerate the degradation process of concrete specimens when exposed to sulfate attack, which was published in the July/August 2016 issue of the 'ACI Materials Journal'. Prof.?Sahmaran?is a member of several technical committees of the ACI, the American Society of Civil Engineering, the Turkish Society of Civil Engineering, and the US Transportation Research Board.