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Dr. Admir Masic is the Founder and Faculty Director of the MIT Refugee Action Hub (ReACT), now called MIT Emerging Talent. Driven by his own personal experience as a teenage refugee from Bosnia Herzegovina, Masic knows firsthand that a good education is the ticket to a better life, “knowledge is something no one can ever take from me.”
In 1992, due to the Bosnian War he was forced to migrate to Croatia. While living there, he enrolled as a non matriculating student at a technical high school. He displayed a strong performance in chemistry while in school, and as a result, was eventually approved to receive a high school diploma. With the help of generous sponsors, he continued his higher education at the University of Turin and he co-founded Adamantio SRL, which works to preserve ancient cultural heritage.
Masic is Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT. Masic holds a doctorate in Physical Chemistry from the University of Turin, and specializes in science-enabled engineering of sustainable construction materials relevant for large-scale infrastructure innovation. In his work, he combines principles of bioinspired and archeological materials science, with multiscale chemical and physical characterization approaches to inform the design of sustainable materials for construction, energy, and the environment. He is a principal investigator in the Concrete Sustainability Hub at MIT and Faculty Fellow in Archaeological Materials at MIT’s Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE).