Professor Irem Dikmen

Professor Dikmen joined University of Reading on 2022 as a professor of Construction Management and Engineering. She was a professor in the Civil Engineering Department at the Middle East Technical University (METU) between 2001-2022. She has over 20 years’ of experience in construction management education, research, policy and consultancy.

She has published over 70 academic papers in journals such as ASCE Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE Management in Engineering, Automation in Construction, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and International Journal of Project Management as well as over 80 international conference papers. She received 2021 Eschenbach Award from American Society of Engineering with her co-authored paper published in Engineering Management Journal on uncertainty mapping.As of 2022, she has supervised 15 PhD students. She has lead several national and international research, development and innovation projects mainly on project risk management, digitalisation and development of decision support systems. She has worked in international collaborative projects  with scholars from UK (University of Reading, Salford and Oxford Brookes), Germany (TU Berlin), USA (Carnegie Mellon University, University of Michigan, Illinois Institute of Technology and University of Virginia) and UAE (American University of Sharjah). She has been extensively reviewing papers for reputable journals. She received “2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award” from ASCE Construction Engineering and Management Journal. She is a member of Editorial Board of Engineering Project Organization Journal and Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Smart and Sustainable Built Environment.

Professor Dikmen has been Vice President of METU responsible from research and development, knowledge transfer and strategic planning during 2008-2016. As the coordinator of METU Office of Sponsored Projects, she was involved in the preparation of several project proposals and secured funding of more than 20 million USD to set up new research initiatives and centers in METU. She worked in several commissions in Higher Education Board and Technological and Scientific Research Council of Turkey to initiate new funding schemes, especially new programmes to foster university-industry collaboration. She worked as a member of Executive Board of METU Technopark during 2013-2016 and has vast amount of experience in managing knowledge transfer schemes.

She has been giving consultancy services to construction companies and government institutions about project risk management and contract management. She acted as a member of Dispute Adjudication Boards of several international construction projects and is experienced in dispute resolution and claim management.   

Professor Dikmen’s publications can be retrieved from

https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?hl=en&user=hYgSxPQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate