Sherif El-Badawy is Professor of Highway Engineering at Mansoura University, Vice Dean for Postgraduate Studies and Research and Director of the Highway and Airport Engineering Laboratory (ISO/IEC 17025:17 accredited lab). He received a BSc degree with honor and MSc in Civil Engineering from Mansoura University and PhD degree from Arizona State University (ASU), USA in 2006. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at ASU until July 2007 and as a Research Fellow at University of Idaho (UI) from December 2009 until January 2012 and adjunct professor at UI till 2015. Dr. El-Badawy has participated in several international and national research projects. He served on the Standing Committee on Design and Rehabilitation of Asphalt Pavements (AFD60) from April 2012 till June 2021. He is a member of four different committees formed by the Housing and Building National Research Center (HBRC) to update the Egyptian Code for Urban and Rural Roads. His research interests focus on sustainable pavement material characterization and modeling, Mechanistic-Empirical pavement design, and pavement performance. He is the Editor-in-Chief of “Innovative Infrastructure Solutions” journal, and Associate Editor of the “Transportation Research Record Journal”, and “ASCE Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering”. He graduated 8 PhD students and 35 MSc students. Through research and graduate advising, he published more than 120 technical publications.