Academic staff
Academic staff
Civil Engineering - Academic staff
Professor Jeffrey Walker
Research Interests:
A combination of i) environmental sensing, ii) earth system modelling, and iii) optimal convergence of model predictions with observations through data assimilation.
Professor Jayantha Kodikara
Research Interests:
Unsaturated flow and material behaviour of compacted soils, reactive soils and pavement materials, Shrinkage, creep and unsaturated flow behaviour of cemented materials, Desiccation cracking of soils and cemented materials, Soil-atmosphere/infracture interaction and climate change effects, On-shore and off-shore pipelines & Stabilisation of soils.
Dr. Tanveer Adyel
Research Interests:
Urban storm water management, Green infrastructure, Water Sensitive Urban Design, Water quality and Sponge city.
Dr. Sina Alaghmand
Research Interests:
SW-GW interactions and catchment-scale hydraulic and hydrological modelling and is interested in exploring impacts of human-induced activities on the hydrological cycle including flood forecasting and solute and water dynamics.
Dr. Kun An
Research Interests:
Sharing Mobility (carsharing, ride-sharing, customized bus), Driverless taxis, Reliable transit network design, logistics and supply chain design, facility location problem, traffic operation and control.
Dr. Mehrdad Arashpour
Research Interests:
Off-site Construction, Prefabricated Structures, Automation & Robotics, Combinatorial Optimisation, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Project Management, Sustainability, Product Life-cycle (PLM), 3D Printing,Cold Formed Steel, Supply Chain, Operation Research, Process Simulation, Modular & Panelised Buildings, Design for Manufacture & Assembly
A/Professor Stephan Arndt
Research Interests:
Rock Mechanics, Discrete Fracture Networks, Coupled Multi-Physics Simulation, Hydraulic Fracturing Simulation, 4D Geo mechanics, Cave Mining, Reservoir Geo mechanics, Fault Slip, Induced Seismicity, High Performance Computing in Geo mechanic, Large Open Pit Slope Stability, Numerical Methods, Automate Model Construction
Professor Yu (Barry) Bai
Research Interests:
Structural adhesives and adhesively-bonded structures, Material and structural responses under critical load conditions, Composite structures, Fiber-reinforced materials and structures.
Professor Abdelmalek Bouazza
Research Interests:
Landfill design Unsaturated behaviour of geomaterials. Contaminant transport through soils and geosynthetics. Geosynthetics in landfills and in mining applications (heap leach pads, tailing dams, etc.). Earth reinforced structures Ground Improvement (soil mixing, dynamic compaction, stone columns). Geosynthetics reinforced piled embankments
Dr. Ha Bui
Research Interests:
Advanced computational techniques to solve future challenges in geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering.
Dr. Colin Caprani
Research Interests:
Highway bridge traffic loading; structural safety and reliability, structural dynamics, human-induced vibration, human-structure interaction, vehicle-bridge interaction, structural health monitoring, weigh-in-motion, footbridge vibration, random vibration, traffic modelling for bridges, probabilistic modeling, extreme value prediction.
A/Professor Victor Chang
Research Interests:
Interdependence between human and environment during the urbanization with a focus on (a) Built Environment-Human Nexus: urban air quality and built environment.
Ms. Pippa Connolly
Research Interests:
Civil and Structural Engineering.
Professor Graham Currie
Research Interests:
Public Transport, Travel Behavior, Transport Policy.
Dr. Edoardo Daly
Research Interests:
Eco-hydrology, stochastic soil-moisture dynamics and water balance, soil-atmosphere interaction, groundwater-dependent ecosystems, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH)
Dr. Roger Dargaville
Research Interests:
Renewable energy
Dr. Alexa Delbosc
Research Interests:
Travel behaviour of young adults, transport and the life course, public transport, social impacts of new transport technologies
Professor Wenhui Duan
Research Interests:
Nano-materials and nano-mechanics , graphene reinforced epoxy/cement/concrete composites; carbon nanotube reinforced epoxy/cement/concrete composites; high strain rate effect;
Dr. Yihai Fang
Research Interests:
Building Information Modeling, Real-time Sensing and Visualization, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in Construction and Built Environments, Construction Safety and Human Factors.
Dr. Asadul Haque
Research Interests:
Non-destructive Characterization of Geo-materials, X-Ray CT Imaging, Foundation Engineering, Carbon Sequestration, Chemical Improvement of Soft Soils and Railway Geotechnics.
Dr. Amin Heidarpour
Research Interests:
Structural and computational mechanics, with specific application to steel, concrete and composite structures subjected to extreme actions
Professor Serge Hoogendoorn
Research Interests:
Traffic Flow Theory, Cooperative and Coordinated Traffic Management, Active Traffic and Transport Modelling and Management, Multimodal Future Transport Systems, and Transport Resilience.
Dr. Tom Hughes
Research Interests:
Thermophysical property measurements including vapour-liquid equilibrium, solid-liquid equilibrium, heat capacity, density, viscosity, thermal conductivity and surface tension, Carbon dioxide capture and sequestration, Semi-clathrate and natural gas hydrates, LNG processing, Environmentally-friendly refrigerants, EOS, Waste heat utilisation
Professor Michael Kennedy
Dr. Inhi Kim
Research Interests:
Traffic safety, Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics, Travel Demand and Behavior Modelling, Complex Networks in Transportation. Transport planning, strategic planning, traffic signal operation, logistics, public transportation planning.
Ms. Victoria Lamb
Professor Julia Lamborn
Research Interests:
Waste management, Landfills, Environmental Impact Assessment, Engineering heritage and Engineering Education.
Dr. Anna Lintern
Research Interests:
Enhancing our understanding of how contaminants and pollutants move through our catchment. This will increase our ability to design the most effective mitigation strategies for waterway pollution; and thereby protect water sources for both environmental benefits and for human usage.
Dr. Ye Lu
Research Interests:
Structural health monitoring, Sensor networks and technology, Wave propagation in solids and Advanced signal processing and data fusion.
Dr. Hossein Masoumi
Research Interests:
Rock mechanics with particular interest in size/scale and shape effects on intact rock, Constitutive modelling of intact rock exhibiting size/scale dependent behaviour under uniaxial and triaxial conditions, Cable bolt characterisation and modelling, Shaly-Sandstone micro-scale characterisation, Non-persistent jointed rocks characterisation
A/Professor David McCarthy
Research Interests:
Urban stormwater management, pathogens, the urban environment, uncertainty in water system modelling
Lecturer Robert Moehler
Research Interests:
Project Management, project and innovation management, Management of Innovation, Engineering design, Sustainability, Knowledge Management, Qualitative Research Methodologies, Institutional Theory.
Dr. Phu Nguyen
Research Interests:
Numerical methods (extended finite elements, mesh free particle methods, iso-geometric analysis), Fracture mechanics (phase-field fracture, cohesive zone models, damage mechanics), Computational mechanics, Large deformation problems and Multi scale modelling of quasi-brittle materials (concretes, composites, rocks etc.).
Professor Marc Parlange
Research Interests:
Hydrology Environmental, Fluid Mechanics, Water Resources and Environmental Engineering.
Professor Ranjith Pathegama Gamage
Research Interests:
Carbon dioxide sequestration in sedimentary basins, modeling of multi-phase flow through rocks, gas outbursts and groundwater inundation in mines and tunnels, rock fracture mechanism and tunneling in soft and hard ground. He is actively involved in experimental and numerical modeling and research in Rock Mechanics.
A/Professor Valentijn Pauwels
Research Interests:
Model data fusion, Hydrology, Optimization
Professor Geoffrey Rose
Research Interests:
Sustainable Transport, Travel Behaviour, Weather, Climate Change, Active Transport.
Dr. Christoph Rudiger
Research Interests:
Monitoring and predicting natural extremes, in particular water-related. This spans from monitoring soil moisture and drought conditions, to vegetation fuel loads for fire predictions, as well as ice sheet changes over Antarctica. The tools he is using are primarily satellites.
Dr. Elizabeth Sironic
Dr. Christian Urich
Research Interests:
decision support and benchmarking tools for a city’s integrated urban water system; adaptive policy planning; water sensitive cities; complex systems; immersive visualisation
Professor Hai Vu
Research Interests:
Intelligent transport systems: traffic monitoring, control and management, network modelling, smart use of information, connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs).
Dr. Stuart Walsh
Dr. Brandon Winfrey
Research Interests:
Ecological engineering, Water sensitive urban design, Integrated urban water management, Urban ecology, Plant ecology, Storm water Biofiltration, Storm water Treatment and Harvesting, Ecosystem services, Functional ecology, Mine water pollution and Mine drainage treatment.
Dr. Xu Yang
Research Interests:
Automatic Pavement Repair and Maintenance; Sustainable pavement materials; Multi-scale modeling and numerical simulation; Climate effect on pavement performance; Building Information Modelling for Transportation Infrastructures
A/Professor Mohan Yellishetty
Research Interests:
Mine rehabilitation and closure, Sustainable mineral resources and industrial ecology and Resources and environmental geotechnical engineering
Dr. Chunshun (Ivan) Zhang
Research Interests:
Chunshun (Ivan) Zhang's research interests include geomechanics on grain crushing of engineering materials, and infrastructure on mechanical analysis of water mains.
Dr. Qianbing Zhang
Research Interests:
Geotechnical Engineering, Tunneling, Engineering Geology, Impact Engineering, Non-Destructive Testing (NDT), and Experimental Mechanics.
Professor Jian Zhao
Research Interests:
Rock Mechanics, Tunneling, Underground Space-mining and Engineering.
Professor Xiao Zhao
Research Interests:
Steel Structures, FRP Strengthening.
Dr. Nan Zheng
Research Interests:
Traffic and transport systems design.