Gimhan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Heriot-Watt University. His expertise includes the broad areas of quantity surveying, project management, megaprojects, system dynamics, and systems thinking. His educational qualifications are as follows:
- BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying & Commercial Management (2012) - Liverpool John Moores University
- MSc Construction Project Management (2013) - Liverpool John Moores University
- MSc Quantity Surveying (2015) - Glasgow Caledonian University
- PhD Construction Management (2020) - Heriot-Watt University
His current role primarily involves the following responsibilities:
Teaching: BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying/Construction Project Management programmes
- Modules - Cost Control Principles (Y1); Cost Modelling and Measurement (Y2); Measurement and Cost Evaluation (Y3); Shaping Tomorrow Together (Y1), Design Project (Y4)
- Dissertation Supervision - BSc and MSc research dissertations
Administrative: BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying/Construction Project Management programmes
- UG Admissions Tutor - assisting the UG recruitment teams on offers for potential applicants, planning and scheduling departmental open-day activities, liason with the marketing team on public outreach activities
- Year 01 Co-ordinator - planning and scheduling departmental induction activities for new and returning students, student-staff co-ordination on Y1 student matters and feedback
- Athena Swan committee member - Co-lead of action points for increasing the female student numbers in CPM/QS
Research
- Current Research Projects:
- Principal investigator - Net-zero carbon and the project manager: readiness, challenges, and pathways for the delivery of carbon-free major projects - Funded by the Association for Project Management (APM), UK
- PhD/EngD Supervision (Ongoing):
- Baisil Varghese Oommen - Use of DNNs in post-contract cost estimating for construction contractors in the UAE
- Abubakar Bagudo Muhammad - Improving cost estimation of oil and gas megaprojects using a RCF-Bayesian framework
- Abubakar Sadiq Tukur - Assessment of the regulatory and policy challenges for delivering telecommunication megaprojects in Nigeria
- Tony Osifo - Integration of data analytics in oil and gas megaprojects in Nigeria
- Adedoyin Ibosiola - Environmental, social, and governance policies for energy megaprojects in Nigeria
- Hayford Pittri - BIM-enabled Blockchains for embodied carbon tracking within the supply chains of construction projects
- Mohammed Adamu Duhu (2nd) - Cost optimization of Nigerian oil and gas megaprojects