Dr Cao Hung PHAM is a Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering at School of Civil Engineering, the University of Sydney. He was awarded a PhD on Cold-Formed Steel Structures from School of Civil Engineering, the University of Sydney in 2010. He also held a Bachelor of Civil Engineering with first class Honours in Structural Engineering at the University of Architecture – Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam in 2000. Subsequently, he obtained both Master of Construction Management and Master of Engineering Science in Structural Engineering at the University of New South Wales in 2003 and 2004, respectively. After his Masters studies, he joined Faculty of Civil Engineering, the University of Architecture – Ho Chi Minh City from 2004 to 2006 as a lecturer. From 2011 to 2015, he was awarded the prestigious ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship on the development of newly developed Direct Strength Method for Cold-Formed Steel Structures under combined actions. He was appointed to a continuing academic position as Lecturer in School of Civil Engineering, the University of Sydney since 2013 and Senior Lecturer in 2018. He served as a member of drafting subcommittee of Standards-Australia Committee BD-82 on Cold-Formed Steel Structures – AS/NZS4600:2018.

Dr Pham’s main research areas are theoretical and experimental structural behaviours and designs with particular interest in steel structural members and systems, cold-formed steel structures, cold-rolled aluminium structures, and structural stability and analysis. He has published 120+ scientific articles published in international prestigious journals and conference proceedings. Much of his work has been translated into design rules in North American Specification – AISI-S100 and Australian/New Zealand Standard – AS/NZS4600 for Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members. He teaches advanced steel structures and was successful in three ARC Discovery Projects, one ARC Linkage Project with BlueScope Steel, one ARC Research Hub for Australian Steel Innovation, and one Innovation Connections Grant. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Thin-Walled Structures Journal and Journal of Science and Technology in Civil Engineering.