Wil V. Srubar

  • Professor
  • Deming Associate Dean for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
  • Charles Victor Schelke Endowed Professor
  • BUILDING SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
  • MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Wil Srubar in a sports coat and button-down shirt with a faded building in the background.
Address

Office: ECOT 458

Education

  • PhD, Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 2013
  • MS, Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2008
  • BS, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2006

Honors and Distinctions

  • 2025 American Ceramic Society Fellow
  • 2025 Srubar Lab/Campus Sustainability Award
  • 2023 Schmidt Science Polymaths Award
  • 2023 American Ceramics Society (ACerS) Cements Division Early Career Award
  • 2023 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award Nominee
  • 2023 Top 25 Newsmakers, Engineering News Record
  • 2021 BioEnvironmental Polymer Society (BEPS) Outstanding Young Scientist
  • 2020 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award
  • 2020 Best Paper Award, Journal of the American Ceramics Society (ACerS)
  • 2017 Engineering News Record (ENR) Mountain States Top 20 Under 40
  • 2016 ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Fellowship

Professional Affiliations

  • American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI)
  • American Concrete Institute (ACI)
  • American Ceramics Society (ACerS)

Professional Interests

  • Biomimetic and Living Materials Science and Engineering
  • Alternative Cement and Concrete Materials
  • Embodied Carbon of Materials and Structures

Latest Publications

  • Beatty, DN, WV Srubar III. (2025). “Nucleation Effects of Coccoliths in Portland Cement,” Matter, in press.
  • Williams, SL, DN Beatty, WV Srubar III. (2024). “Diatom Biosilica as Supplementary Cementitious Material,” npj Materials Sustainability, 2, 39.
  • Jungclaus, MA, N Grant, M Torres, JH Arehart, WV Srubar III. (2024) “Embodied Carbon Benchmarks of Single-family Residential Buildings in the United States,” Sustainable Cities and Society, 117, 105975.
  • Acarturk, BC, MA Jungclaus, M Torres, B Lash, WV Srubar III. (2024). “Effect of Algal Biomass on the Properties of Calcium Sulfoaluminate Cement,” ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 12(23), 8690–8701.
  • Jungclaus, MA, SL Williams, JH Arehart, WV Srubar III. (2024). “Whole-Life Carbon Emissions of Concrete Mixtures Considering Maximum CO2 Sequestration via Carbonation,” Resources, Conservation, and Recycling, 206, 107605.
  • Armistead, SJ, RA Mikofsky, WV Srubar III. (2023). “Toward Biomimetic and Living Earth Materials,” Matter, 6(12): 4124-4127.
  • Dowdy, ND*, WV Srubar III. (2023). “Biomineralization in Cement and Concrete Research,” RILEM Technical Letters, 8: 113-124.
  • Frazier, SD, AJ Lobo, WV Srubar III. (2022). “Biomimetic Ice Recrystallization Inhibition-Active Poly(vinyl alcohol) Enhances the Freeze-thaw Resistance of Cement Paste,” Cement and Concrete Research, 160, 106905.
  • Heveran, CM, SL Williams, J Qiu, J Artier, MH Hubler, SM Cook, JC Cameron, WV Srubar III. (2020). “Biomineralization and Successive Regeneration of Engineered Living Building Materials,” Matter, 2(2), 481-494.
  • DeRousseau, MA, JH. Arehart, JR Kasprzyk, WV Srubar III. (2020). "Statistical Variation in the Embodied Carbon of Concrete Mixtures." Journal of Cleaner Production, 275, 123088.