Professor Ghasan Doudak is a professor of structural engineering in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Ottawa. His area of expertise includes multi-scale understanding of how complete structural systems function encompassing issues like how complete buildings respond to the effects of windstorms, ground shaking during earthquakes, or other actions like impacts and blasts.

Following his graduation, he worked as a structural engineer where he designed commercial and residential buildings. His PhD research was aimed at determining the load paths in wood light frame buildings under various stages of construction using a holistic design approach.

He has been actively involved in disseminating research outcomes to the engineering community and involved in the development of design standards, tools for designers and communicating to key audiences. Professor Doudak is an active member of several code and standard committees and has contributed to the technical content of the standards through several change proposals. He has been a voting member on the National Building Code Standing Committee on Structural Design. He is also a member of the Technical Committee on Design and Assessment of Buildings Subjected to Blast Loads (CSA S850) and has made significant contribution as Chair of the Design and Detailing Subcommittee. Professor Doudak is also a voting member and Chair of the CSA Technical Committee O86 “Engineering Design in Wood”. He is also a member on the committee on CSA S520 “Design and construction of low-rise residential and small buildings to resist high wind” and member of the Subcommittee on Timber Structures under the Highway and Bridge Design Code (CSA S6).

In addition, over the past 20 years, Professor Doudak has been teaching timber design at the undergraduate and graduate levels and he has given invited lectures and full-day training workshops to thousands of practising engineers and architects.