Emeritus Professor Alex Visser recently retired as the SA Roads Board Professor in Transportation Engineering in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Pretoria after a career of more than 20 years at the University.  He holds the degrees BSc(Eng) (Cape Town), MSc(Eng) (Wits), PhD (University of Texas at Austin) and BComm (SA). He is a Fellow and Past-President of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) and a Fellow of the South African Academy of Engineering.  In 1998 he was awarded the SAICE Award for Meritorious Research for his contributions to low volume road technologies and in 2004 he received the Chairman’s Award from the Transportation Division for contributions to transportation engineering.  He was awarded Emeritus membership of the US Transportation Research Board Low-Volume Roads committee in 2006 for lifelong services rendered.

He has performed extensive research on non-traditional stabilisers for improving road materials.  He has published extensively, and continues to do so, and lectures internationally on these topics. Since retiring he has also provided advice on projects around the world.