Mario Santana Awarded Honorary PhD
It has been announced that Mario Santana Quintero, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and faculty researcher at CIMS, will be awarded an honorary doctorate in Architecture from the Université de Liège, Belgium.
After achieving his diploma in Architecture from the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 1994, Dr. Santana completed a Master of Conservation of Historic Towns and Buildings and a PhD in Engineering (Architecture) at the Université catholique de Leuven, Belgium.
Upon joining the faculty of Carleton University in 2012, he became a member of CIMS, where he has worked closely with students and international partners to study and record built heritage around the world. Last summer, he organized the CIPA2017 symposium in Ottawa, focusing on Digital Workflows for Heritage Conservation.
In addition to his work at CIMS, Dr. Santana is the director of the NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering Program, a multi-disciplinary training program open to students of all levels in the fields of engineering, architecture, information technology, and Canadian studies. He is Vice-President of ICOMOS/ISPRS Heritage Documentation (CIPA), and co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development.
CIMS would like to congratulate Dr. Santana for this outstanding distinction. For more information, please visit the website of the Université de Liège.
