"Meet-the-Editors" Panel Session

Peter Love is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University. 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) for his significant contributions to the field construction engineering and management.

Professor Love currently acts as the Department Editor for People and Organization for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He is a Visiting Professor to Universities in Australia, China, Korea, United Kingdom and South Africa. Professor Love has been a recipient of almost $5 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. As a result of Professor Love's contribution to the field of Operations Management he was appointed as an Honorary Professor at Burnel University in 2016.

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 modelling and optimisation in complex projects. He serves as an editorial advisory board member for several leading international journals. He currently has co-authored/edited six books and has authored/co-authored over 600 internationally refereed research papers.