Back to authors

Luis Guillermo Loría Salazar


Biography

Graduated in Civil Engineering, University of Costa Rica, 1998. In 2005 he starts his Master’s Degree at the University of Nevada, Reno, in the United States, where he completes his degree in 2007.  From 2011 he holds his doctorate from the same American university.  He is an outstanding consultant as far as design and material analysis are concerned, offering international training courses in numerous American countries.
 
He has worked during a large part of his professional life as a lecturer at School of Civil Engineering of the University of Costa Rica (Statics, pavement laboratory, Engineering statistics), at the University of Nevada in Reno (Building materials and basic pavement design), as a researcher at LanammeUCR in the area of Pavement design (from nanoscale to natural scale), Material Sciences, Technical Specifications and Quality Control Methods for road projects. His research has led to about 80 publications, many of which presented in several internationally renowned congresses and journals.

He was recently appointed as a full member of the AFK20 Committee (Bituminous Materials) and the Scientific Committee AFD40 (Accelerated Pavement Testing), both of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States.

Currently he is a Professor at the University of Costa Rica and General Coordinator of the Transportation Infrastructure Program at the National Laboratory of Materials and Structural Models (LanammeUCR) of the University of Costa Rica, leading a team of 90 professionals. Additionally, he teaches at the University of Costa Rica, at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.


Rate author


Average valuation    (1)
0.00

Publications



Comments

There are no comments yet

Comment



500 characters as much (0)



Recommended authors

  • Javier Herrero Lizano

    Director General de Carreteras Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos desde 1981, por la Uni..

  • Rosario Cornejo Arribas

    @chcarribas

    Degree in Civil Engineering. She has dedicated most part of her professional life to road maintenance, at first in the private sector and afterwards,..

  • Luisa Nicte

    Doctorado en Geomecánica, Ingeniería Civil (Mecánica, Geomecánica, Materiales), InstitutoNacional Politécnico INP, Grenoble, Francia, 2008. Maestría..

  • María Elena Hidalgo Pérez

    Directora Calidad, Medio Ambiente e I+D+i (desde 2008) Eiffage Infraestructuras Desde el año 2008: Responsable de la gestión de la calidad y medio..

  • Jorge del Pozo

    @jorgedelpozo

    2008- : Técnico de Seguimiento de Proyectos de I+D del sector de la construcción. CDTI 2015-2017: Profesor. Universidad Europea. Madrid 2011-2012:..

  • H. Kit Miyamoto

    @KitMiyamoto

    Dr. Kit Miyamoto, Global CEO of Miyamoto International, built a structural engineering and disaster risk reduction firm from a five-man Sacramento com..

  • Jean-Claude Roffé

    @jcroffe

    Vice President of the European Union Road Federation (ERF) Former President of the International Bitumen Emulsion Federation (IBEF)

  • Juan Elías García Hernández

    @jegh911

    Director de Operaciones México, itafec. Junio de 2018 - actualidad Coordinador de medio ambiente, Continental. Mayo de 2016 – junio de 2018 Enviro..