Fadi Makarem is affiliated with the Department of Civil Engineering at American University of Sharjah. His research contributions include co-authored publications on constitutive models and dynamic behavior of structural steel. Key works from 2011 to 2013 address comparisons of constitutive models for steel over a wide range of temperatures and strain rates, dynamic localizations in HSLA-65 and DH-36 structural steel at elevated temperatures, nonlinear finite element modeling of dynamic localizations in high strength steel columns under impact, and dynamic localizations in structural steel at high strain rates and temperatures. A more recent 2026 publication examines unraveling storm wave populations in the UAE with multivariate and clustering analysis, with affiliation noted in connection to American University of Sharjah programs.