Marjan Sarshar is a Professor of Construction Process Management and Construction IT.
Professor Sarshar studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Manchester. She continued her education further with an MSc in Systems Control Engineering and a PhD in Computing from the University of Manchester.
She commenced her professional career as a software development engineer and later an IT business analyst in the telecommunications and automotive industries for four years. In 1992 she began her academic career as a Research Fellow on an EPSRC project on integrated object oriented platforms for the construction industry at Salford University. She became a lecturer in IT Systems Development and later Construction IT. She obtained her Chair in 1999 at the University of Salford. Her research interests included virtual environments for the construction industry, construction integration, simulation and nD modelling, as well as strategic management and process maturity in the construction industry.
Professor Sarshar has extensive experience in industrial engagement and collaborative R&D with industry. Between 1998-2002 she was the Director of Construct IT, a fee paying knowledge exchange network for major construction companies. Construct IT instigated numerous research projects and produced numerous Best Practice reports (“How to Guides”) for DTI (Department of Trade and Industry). In this role she won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2000.
More recently Professor Sarshar has been an Associate Dean at the Faculty of Built Environment at the University of West of England and later the Director of the BEST Research Centre (Built Environment and Sustainable Technologies) at Liverpool John Moores University. Her more recent areas of research interest include zero carbon and positive energy buildings, and the use of novel and emerging technologies and management techniques in order to realise positive energy buildings.
Professor Sarshar has personally led around £2.5M of research projects, and has been a collaborator on a further £4M of research projects from EPSRC, EU, DTI and TSB. She is the author of around 50 refereed journal and international conference papers. |
Prof Marjan Sarshar