Farah HOMSI

Associate Professor

School of Engineering of Beirut
School of Architecture of Beirut
Directeur adjoint - Affaires administratives

+961 (1) 421 000 ext 3406 farah.homsi@usj.edu.lb

Farah HOMSI received a diploma in Civil Engineering from the Lebanese University in 2007, a Master's Degree in Geological, Civil and Environmental Engineering from Bordeaux 1 University in 2008 and a Ph.D. degree in civil Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Nantes in 2011. Farah Homsi’s main Research Topics are the Design of Asphalt Pavements (Real loading signals, evaluation of the fatigue life of asphalt pavements, Validation of a flexible pavement model) and Sustainable Concrete (Concrete recycling and solid waste material concrete). Since September 2019, she is a full-time assistant professor at Ecole Supérieure d’Ingéneirus de Beyrouth, Saint-Joseph’s University of Beirut, teaching courses related to Construction Materials, General Construction Procedures, Traffic Engineering, Road and Pavement Engineering, Planning and Management of Large-Scale Projects and Mobility and Safety in Urban Areas. She also supervises Masters’ thesis in the area of road safety, and PhD thesis in the areas of construction materials and pavement design. Since September 2023, she is the Assistant Director of Administrative Affairs at Ecole Supérieure d’Architecture de Beyrouth, Saint-Joseph’s University of Beirut. Farah Homsi is a member of the Order of Engineers & Architects of Tripoli. She was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Order of Engineers and Architects of Tripoli between June 2018 and May 2019.

Education

Degree University Country Year
Doctorat - Génie civil Ecole centrale de Nantes / IFSTTAR France 2011
Master recherche - Génie géologique, génie civil et environnementale Université Bordeaux I France 2008
Diplôme d'ingénieur - Section génie civil et environnement - option: structures Université Libanaise Liban 2007

Research themes

Construction MaterialsFlexible pavements designRoad Safety

Publications and communications

Rayan Mina, Farah Homsi, A figure of merit that includes 5 distinct performance indicators to improve research evaluation of academic scholars’, Heliyon, Volume 10, Issue 4, 2024. Abdulkader El-Mir, Samer El-Zahab, Zoubir Mehdi Sbartaï, Farah Homsi, Jacqueline Saliba, Hilal El-Hassan Machine learning prediction of concrete compressive strength using rebound hammer test - Journal of Building Engineering, Volume 64, April 2023. Homsi, F., Balay, J., Bodin, D., Breysse, D., and Yotte, S., 2015, "Estimating Truck Aggressiveness Using a Multilinear Fatigue Model and a Viscoelastic Pavement Model." ASCE J. Transp. Eng., Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2016. Farah Homsi, Jean-Maurice Balay, Didier Bodin, Denys Breysse, Sylvie Yotte; Coupling a Multi-linear Fatigue Model and a Pavement Model to Estimate Truck Aggressiveness, 8th RILEM International Conference on Mechanisms of Cracking and Debonding in Pavements, Springer, 2016. Homsi, F., Bodin, D., Yotte, S., Breysse, D and Balay J.-M., "Fatigue life modeling of asphalt pavements under multiple axle loadings", Road Materials and Pavement Design, RMPD, pp 749-768, September 2012.

Awards and distinctions

Premier prix - Concours des Jeunes Chercheurs