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 Hai Vu
Research Interests:
Intelligent transport systems: traffic monitoring, control and management, network modelling, smart use of information, connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs).
Professor Mathew Aitchison
Dr. Mehrdad Arashpour
Research Interests:
Computer Vision, Prefabricated Structures, Robotics, Optimisation, Building Information Modelling (BIM), Sustainability, Product Life-cycle (PLM), Operations Research, Process Simulation, Design for Manufacture and Assembly
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
A/Professor Ha Bui
Research Interests:
We develop advanced computational methods and novel real-time monitoring and early warning systems to solve future challenges in geotechnical engineering and geomechanics, with reference to related engineering applications.
A/Professor 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.
A/Professor Pippa Connolly
Research Interests:
Civil and Structural Engineering.
Professor Graham Currie
Research Interests:
Public Transport, Travel Behavior, Transport Policy.
A/Professor 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:
Construction Automation and Informatics; Construction Robotics; Digital Twin for Construction and Built Environments; Construction Safety and Human Factors
Dr. Wynita Griggs
Research Interests:
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS); distributed ledger technologies (e.g., IOTA) as enablers in IoT and ITS; vehicle-in-the-loop and large-scale traffic simulation (e.g., SUMO); stability of dynamical systems; mathematical control theory.
Dr. Asadul Haque
Research Interests:
Non-destructive Characterization of Geo-materials, X-Ray micro-CT, Foundation Engineering, Carbon Sequestration, Chemical Improvement of Soils, Railway Geotechnics.
A/Professor Amin Heidarpour
Research Interests:
Structural and computational mechanics, with specific application to steel, concrete and composite structures subjected to extreme actions
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
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.
Professor Julia Lamborn
Research Interests:
Engineering Education and Landfill behaviour
Dr. Anna Lintern
Research Interests:
My key interests lie in understanding and predicting water quality of streams and lakes, and the impact of Best Management Practices on water quality. This will increase our ability to design 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. Mike Ma
Research Interests:
Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Large-Scale Network Optimization, Shared Mobility-on-Demand, Urban Rail and Bus Systems, Travel Demand Management
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
Dr. Robert Moehler
Research Interests:
Project Management, project and innovation management, Management of Innovation, Engineering design, Sustainability, Knowledge Management, Qualitative Research Methodologies, Institutional Theory.
A/Professor Dong Ngoduy
Research Interests:
Mathematical modelling for transport systems, traffic flow theory, AI and machine learning for traffic estimation problems, transport network optimization
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:
Prof Ranjith’s primary research contribution has been in development of new methods to understand & overcome resource-recovery challenges– in mining; especially for unconventional gas ; geothermal reserves–with the strategic goal of improving; promoting technological innovation for environmental protection and responsible use of resources
A/Professor Valentijn Pauwels
Research Interests:
Model data fusion, Hydrology, Optimization
Dr. Tim Peterson
Research Interests:
I focus on detecting long-term change in catchment hydrological processes and drivers early enough so that society can act. By statistically analysing commonly available surface and groundwater data I aim to better understand where and when such chnages have occured and why.
Professor Geoffrey Rose
Research Interests:
Sustainable Transport, Travel Behaviour, Weather, Climate Change, Active Transport.
A/Professor 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. Stuart Walsh
Dr. Brandon Winfrey
Research Interests:
ecological engineering, water sensitive urban design, green infrastructure, urban ecology, stormwater biofilters, ecosystem services, mycorrhizae, asset maintenance, low-cost sensors, real-time monitoring, mine water pollution, and mine drainage treatment.
A/Professor Mohan Yellishetty
Research Interests:
Mine rehabilitation and closure Sustainability frameworks/tools and their application to the mining industry. Industrial ecology, life cycle thinking, substance flow and material flow analysis. Critical and strategic mineral supply chains and assessment Resources and environmental geotechnical engineering.
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.
Dr. Nan Zheng
Research Interests:
Modeling and Optimization of Transport Systems, Traffic Operation and Control, Connected and Automated Mobility
Dr. Jenny Zhou
Research Interests:
Each year I admit students for interdisciplinary research investigating the built environment and sustainability. I am particularly recruiting candidates interested in the intersection of building energy, human comfort and health, and climate change.