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Academic Writing: How to write (good) scientific papers.

Academic Writing: Inside the Editor’s mind

Reporter: Prof. Pablo Ballesteros-Pérez

Time: 16:00-18:00 (Beijing time) 21 Aug

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Dr. Ballesteros-Pérez is a civil engineer (2002), geological engineer (2005), MSc in Project Management (2010) and holds a PhD in Engineering Projects and Innovation (2010), all from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain.

Since March 2021, he is Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering Projects at the Universitat Politècnica de València. Before, he was Senior Excellence Researcher (Ramón y Cajal fellow) at the Universidad de Cádiz (2019-2021), Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University (UK) (2018-2019), Lecturer at the University of Reading (UK) (2016-2018), Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Talca (Chile) (2013-2015).

Before joining the academia full-time in 2013 and simultaneously with a position as part-time lecturer, he was the Head of the Construction tendering department (2007-2012) in an international construction company. Before 2007, he had worked for 5 years as a construction project engineer in the Spanish construction private sector.

He is the author of +50 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 36 conference papers, two book chapters and one book on different areas of construction management and operational research. Currently, his (Scopus) H-index is 20. He is guest lecturer at the Universidad Europea de Valencia (Spain) and the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo INTEC (Dominican Republic) where he delivers academic writing and project management courses.

His broad academic area of interest is Construction Project Management. His two major research lines to date are Operational Research and Applied Statistics (OR&AS) in Competitive Bidding and the Influence of weather in construction productivity. He has also developed some research strands and publications in other areas such as project scheduling and team formation with Sociometric techniques.

He regularly sits as member of the reviewing panel in some prestigious construction conferences (e.g. International Congress on Project Engineering (AEIPRO), International Structural Engineering and Construction conference (ISEC), Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM)). Since July 2018, he is Associate Editor of the journal ‘Construction Management and Economics’ (Taylor and Francis), a Q1 SJR journal. He has received the outstanding reviewer recognition twice by Elsevier and Emerald.

He has secured 0.75 million € to date in 5 grants as academic (PI in 2, Co-PI in 2). Previously, he and his team during his years as Head of Construction Tendering, were also awarded 2.35 million € from 12 industry-based research projects from five Spanish and EU funders. Recently, he was awarded the prestigious Ramón y Cajal fellowship in the Engineering and Architecture category.

Award-wise, Dr Ballesteros received in 2014 the competitive Iberoamerican Research grant for young professors and researchers from ‘Santander bank universities’. In 2016 his project ‘Weather-wise’ has been the winner of the prestigious Bowen Jenkins Legacy Fund (Chartered Institute of Building CIOB) (UK).