Dr. Salim Belouettar is a senior researcher in the Laboratoire de Technologies Industrielles. Member of the ERCIM (European Research Consortium in Informatics and Mathematics). Research areas: material sciences, composite materials, structural mechanics and computational mechanics. He participated in the program committees of international conferences and was Chairman and organizer of an international conference on finite element modelling and analysis. Dr. Belouettar is author and co-author of more than 20 publications.