Prof Wynand Steyn is Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria. He is a professionally registered pavement engineer with a research interest in vehicle-pavement interaction, accelerated pavement testing, pavement engineering, pavement materials, Civiltronics and instrumentation. He completed both his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He has authored, co-authored and edited 55 journal papers, 23 book chapters (author / co-author / editor) and 112 conference papers. A summary of his publications can be found on his Researchgate page:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wynand_Steyn/publications.

He is Associate Editor of the International Journal for Pavement Engineering and the International Journal of Pavement Research and Technology, and has a B3 National Research Foundation (NRF) rating. He is a Fellow of the South African Institution of Civil Engineers, Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering (SAAE) and an adjunct professor at the Chang’an University in Xian, and the Shandong Jianzhu University in Jinan, China.