Santanu Bhanja is currently Professor and former Head-of-the-Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Kolkata under Ministry of Education, Govt of India. He had his civil engineering education from Jadavpur University, Kolkata and IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal. He has served Bengal Engineering College (DU), Shibpur, as a Lecturer and then as an Assistant Professor at the Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur (presently IIEST, Shibpur) for about a decade before taking up the present assignment. Prof Bhanja has also worked in the industry for about seven years mostly as a Design Engineer. Besides teaching, he has provided technical consultancy as a Proof-Consultant for the private and govt sectors regarding the design of several prestigious projects. He has authored several research papers which have been published in Journals of international repute and presented numerous papers in National and International Conferences and Seminars. Prof Bhanja has more than Three decades of experience with concrete as a researcher, teacher for students at the under-graduate, post-graduate level and beyond and as a trainer of the technical faculty members of degree and Diploma level Engineering Institutions. He has organized several Workshops, Seminars, Webinars and Training programs in the field of concrete.