Richard Willis

Richard Willis serves as the NAPA expert on mix design, recycled materials, life-cycle cost analysis, and pavement design. He serves as the staff liaison for NAPA’s Committee for Asphalt Research and Technology; Council for Engineering, Research, and Sustainability; Workforce Development Committee; and Pavement Economics Committee Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Task Force as well as being a co-host of NAPA’s ''Pave it Black'' podcast. Richard has a passion for teaching and is consistently educating the industry on NAPA's initiatives and priorities across the country.

Before joining NAPA, Richard worked as an Associate Research Professor at the National Center for Asphalt Technology at Auburn University. While at NCAT, he conducted research on topics related to recycled materials, sustainability, laboratory mixture characterization, and life-cycle assessment. He served as the Principal Investigator on National Cooperative Highway Research Program project 9-55 on the use of recycled asphalt shingles in asphalt mixtures with warm mix before joining NAPA and led many of the asphalt industry research projects on pavement vehicle interaction.

Education
BS in Physical Science, Freed-Hardeman University
BCE, Auburn University
MS, Auburn University
PhD, Auburn University