Paul Kassabian is a structural engineer with interests in design, dynamic control, and deployable structures. Educated in England at Westminster School and Cambridge University, he joined the design firm of Flint & Neill Partnership in London. There he worked on design and assessment of a range of distinctive bridge structures, including Lockmeadow footbridge in Kent and Cleddau Bridge in Wales. During this time, he worked at contractor Watson Steel as Deputy Project Manager for the fabrication, erection, contracts, and finance of the Gateshead Millennium Bridge which won the UK Building of the Year Award 2002. He developed the lift-in-one scheme for the 1200 ton bridge and controlled the landing of the north side of the bridge on the erection day.

His interests in structural dynamics and motion control led him to take a Master of Science degree at MIT. There, his role as teaching assistant in structures grew to include leading educational visits to Tokyo and Shanghai, while his collaborative efforts included forming ice structures outside Kresge Chapel during winter. He currently works at Simpson, Gumpertz & Heger in Boston on a range of projects including: soil-structure interaction for seismic events, investigations and repair of masonry facades, collapse investigations, and design/remedial work for clients and contractors.

Registration
Licensed Professional Engineer, Massachusetts, USA

Chartered Civil Engineer, UK Chartered Structural Engineer, UK

Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA S.M., Civil and Structural Engineering

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom M.A. and M.Eng., Civil and Structural Engineering

Honors/Awards
Telford Prize, Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), 2004 Maseeh Annual Award for Excellence as a Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003

James Watt Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), 2000
Graduates Paper Medal, Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), 1997
Queen's Jubilee Scholarship to University of Cambridge (UK), 1993

Publications
Butterworth, K., Carr, D., and Kassabian, P.E., "Gateshead Millennium Bridge: Fabrication, Assembly and Erection," Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Bridge Engineering, Spring 2003.

Firth, I.P.T., and Kassabian, P.E., "The Ribble Way Bridge - Characteristics of a Three-Way Arch," Arch '01, Third International Conference on Arch Bridges, Paris, France, 2001.

Kassabian, P.E., You, Z., and Pellegrino, S., "Retractable Roof Structures," Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Structures and Buildings, February 1999.

Kassabian, P.E., "Retractable Structures," International Colloquium on Structural Morphology, International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures, United Kingdom, 1997.

Invited Presentations
"Creativity in Design: 3 bridges in the UK" at M.I.T, October 2004 "Trends in Structural Engineering" at M.I.T, April 2004.

"Structural Forms" IABSE/Cambridge Symposium held at Cambridge University (UK), December 2003.

Lecture for graduate steel design course at Tufts University, November 2003.

Lecture for undergraduate bridge design course, Oxford University, (UK), 2002