Professor Peter Love

Peter Love is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Infrastructure and Engineering Informatics at Curtin University and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and a Chartered Building Professional. He was also a member of the inaugural Australian Research Council’s Engineering and Environmental Science Panel 2010/11 Excellence in Australian Research Exercise and re-appointed for the 2018 evaluation process. Professor Love’s leadership in research and active engagement with the construction and resources industry was acknowledged in 2010 when he was awarded the inaugural Scopus Young Australian Researcher of the Year Award in 2010 and later in 2012 was a nominee for Australian of the Year.  In 2013 he was awarded a Higher Doctorate of Science (Sc.D.) by Curtin University in recognition of his substantial and sustained contribution to the field of civil and construction engineering.

Professor Love is the Editor of Developments in the Built Environment (Elsevier), Associate Editor for Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier) and Department Editor for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (IEEE).  He serves as a visiting professor to universities in Australia, China, Korea, United Kingdom (UK), and South Africa. He has a wide range of industry experience, which he gained in Australia and the UK working as a cost consultant and a commercial manager for a multi-national construction and engineering organization.  Professor Love has been a recipient of more than $10 million from the Australian Research Council’s Discovery and Linkage Schemes.  In addition, he has secured funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Research Grants Council (RGC) in Hong Kong. He regularly reviews research proposals submitted to the ARC, EPSRC, RGC, South African National Research Foundation (NRF), National Science Foundation (NSF) in the USA, the Georgian National Science Foundation, and the Danish Council for Independent Research.  In 2016 he was awarded the position of Honorary Professor at Brunel Business School, Brunel University (UK) for his contributions to the fields of Operations Management and Information Systems.

Professor Love’s impact reaches beyond academia via media engagements, policy advice to governments and multilateral institutions, and consulting with Fortune 500 companies.  Professor Love has a multi-disciplinary background and has varied research interests, which include safety and reliability engineering, project management, risk management, infrastructure engineering, operations, and production management, and modeling and optimization in complex projects.  He serves as an editorial advisory board member for several leading international journals.  He currently has co-authored/edited seven books and has authored/co-authored over 450 internationally refereed journal papers, which have appeared in leading international journals such as Advanced Engineering Informatics, European Journal of Operations Research, IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Journal of Management Studies, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, and Transportation Research A: Policy and Practice.  Professor Love has +30300 citations and an h-Index of 100  (October 2020). The Australian newspaper identified Professor Love as one ‘Australia’s top 40 Research Stars in 2019’ and world leader in the field of Civil and Construction Engineering.

Post Nominals

DSc (Curtin), PhD (Monash), MSc (Bath)