International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, ISSMGE (TC 106 Technical Committee on Unsaturated Soil Mechanics, Corresponding Member from NL, while residing in NL)
International Society for Porous Media, InterPore
(service in event committee and local board member for InterPore 2017)
Advisory editor for (editorial board member of) Engineering Report (Wiley)
Science of the Total Environment (Elsevier)
Scientific Reports (Nature)
Vadose Zone Journal (Soil Science Society of America)
Journal of Engineering Mechanics (American Society of Civil Engineering, ASCE)
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (American Society of Civil Engineering, ASCE)
Geotechnique (ICE Publishing Co.)
Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth (American Geophysical Union, AGU)
Water Resources Research (American Geophysical Union, AGU)
Advances in Water Resources (Elsevier)
Canadian Geotechnical Journal (NRC Research Press, a division of Canadian Science Publishing)
Catena (Elsevier)
Geomechanics of energy and environment (Elsevier)
Heliyon (Cell Press and Elsevier)
International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (Wiley)
Geotechnique letters (ICE Publishing Co.)
Geofluids (Hindawi publishing co.)
Journal of Hydraulics (Iranian Hydraulics Association)
IJST (Springer and Shiraz U)
Acta Geotechnica (Springer)
Scientia Iranica (Sharif University of Technology)
Environmental Geotechnics (ICE Publishing Co.)
Applied mathematical modeling (Elsevier)
Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier)
Geoderma (Elsevier)
Acta Agrophysica (Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Frontiers in Earth Sciences
Engineering Geology (Elsevier)
Engineering report (Wiley)
European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (Elsevier)
SNAS Applied Sciences (Springer)
Served as the technical reviewer for the following conferences:
Member of technical committee for 7th International Symposium on Deformation Characteristics of Geomaterials (IS-GLASGOW 2019), Strathclyde's Technology & Innovation Centre, Glasgow, UK, 26th – 28th June 2019
Reviewer for 7th International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, 3rd-5th August 2018, Hong Kong
Reviewer for 1st International and 3rd National Conference on Sustainable Development in Road Construction Focusing on Environmental Protection, 21 Dec. 2017, Shiraz, Iran
6th Biot conference on poromechanics, July 9-13, 2017, Paris, France
3rd European Conference on Unsaturated Soils (E-Unsat 2016), 12-14, September 2016, Paris, France
Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, June 16-19, 2015, Stanford University, USA
10th International congress on civil engineering, 5-7 May, 2015, University of Tabriz, Iran
First national conference on soil mechanics and foundation Engineering, Iran Tehran, 3-4, December 2014
Served as the reviewer for post doc projects of Iranian National Science Foundation (INSF), and office of industrial oriented researches of Shiraz University for patent evaluation regarding the originalities of ideas and patent proposals
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Some of the lectures/seminars/contributions in various universities, conferences:
Some recent ones (2021) will be listed later! In 2020 and most likely early 2021, limited mobility opportunity would exist due to Covid 19! Let us hope for the best.
2019 A visit to METU (Ankara, Turkey), Department of Geotechnical Engineering, as well as Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy), Geotechnical Eng. group, along with a short lecture at UPC (Barcelona, Spain) and one in a seminar (PEDOFRACT) organized by UPM (Madrid, Spain), applied mathematics group, institute of the application of mathematical methods in agriculture.
March 17-27, 2018 visiting Geotechnics group of the department of mining and geology of the university of Belgrade. On Wednesday, March 21st, I had a lecture for the faculty titled "Suction stress and effective stress in unsaturated porous media: the role of fluid-fluid interfaces and the importance of dynamic condition". The lecture was hosted by respected Professors Abolmasov, Čaki, Hadži-Niković, and the respected dean of the department, Prof. Polomčić to all of whom I express my sincere gratitude. We had also later a visit to lab (Lab of Prof.Čaki) and nice discussions, for instance on the loess soil of Belgrade about which you can read further here and later on with Prof. Abolmasov on the landslide monitoring of Umka region, you can read more about it here.
September 17-22, 2017 (Seoul, Korea), 19th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (official conference of ISSMGE): we have one oral presentation and a poster on our joint works with unsaturated soil mechanics laboratory of Shiraz University which will be presented by my colleague Prof. Habibagahi.
August 30, 2017: Lecture at Uppsala University: I talked on the same topic that I had talked in Copenhagen University (interfaces and dynamic effects and their importance for the hydraulics and mechanics of unsaturated soils); this time it was at the group of Prof. Auli Niemi at Uppsala Uni.
*I would like to thank Auli and Farzad (Dr. Basirat) of Uppsala University and Karsten (Copenhagen University), as well as Insa (Leibniz Universität Hannover) all for their kindly hosting me during this trip.
August 28, 2017: I had a lecture titled "Suction stress and effective stress in unsaturated porous media:
the role of fluid-fluid interfaces and the importance of dynamic condition" for the group of Prof. Karsten Høgh Jensen at Københavns Universitet.
August 25, 2017: I visited Dr. Marius Milatz at the Technical University of Hamburg. Thanks to his arrangements for my stay and visit, we discussed various nice experimental works which can be considered for further investigation of interfaces and dynamic effects. I would like to thank Marius and the head of the group there, Prof. Grabe for their kindly hosting me.
August 24, 2017: one day visit to "Institut für Strömungsmechanik und Umweltphysik im Bauwesen" (Hannover University). I discussed the importance of interfaces and dynamic effects with Prof.Insa Neuweiler. She had nice comments on whether or not the measurements we commonly perform to investigate the dynamic effects are proper or not and how that can be looked into further.
August 22, and 23, 2017: an invited visit and lecture at the "Institute of Mechanics, Technische Universität Dortmund". I talked on the use of fractal techniques and energy methods of continuum mechanics for material characterization. The lectures were presented for the PhD students and the group. My visit was kindly hosted by Dr. Patrick Kurzeja whom I sincerely thank for his wonderful and kind arrangements.
July 2017: Two contributions at Biot 2017 conference organized by École des Ponts ParisTech. The lectures were titled:
The effect of stress level on soil porous structure: insights from fractal analysis (my own lecture)
and
Micromechanical insights into the effective stresses (Presented and led by Bruno)
co-authors: Chareyre Bruno, Nikooee Ehsan, Chalak Caroline, Yuan Chao
Full program of Biot conference can be reached at this link
-Friday, May 26, 2017: I visited Dr. Jacques Huyghe (Bernal chair at the University of Limerick, Ireland) and had a poster for presentation during the workshop titled Interfaces and Transport Phenomena organized at the occasion of his professorship at the University of Limerick (Department of Mechanical, Aeronautical and Biomedical Engineering)
-Thursday, May 25, 2017: I visited Geotechnical group of Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) and had a lecture titled "Mechanics and hydraulics of multiphase porous materials: the role of air water interfacial area". I would like to thank my host Dr. Brendan O'Kelly for hosting me.
-May 11, 2017: Together with F. Casini, (Universita'degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy), S. Ghabezloo, (Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech), T. Schanz, (Ruhr-Universität), and J. Vaunat, (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), so-called Barcelona Tech.), we organized a mini-symposium titled Constitutive framework for unsaturated porous media: experimental challenges and modeling opportunities at 9th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
-March 20, and 21, 2017, (Utrecht/Netherlands): Together with Majid Hassanizadeh of Utrecht University, we organized a joint Darcy Center-InterPore workshop on "Advances in modeling flow and deformation in unsaturated porous media", its program can be reached at this link.
-November 4, 2016: A lecture titled " Developing constitutive equations for soil based on a thermodynamic framework" in Plaxis b.v. (Deft, Netherlands) presented during the workshop on "Thermal Flow and Frozen/Unfrozen Soil"
-September 21, 2016: One day visit at Institute of Geotechnical Engineering and Construction Management (Hamburg University of Technology), and a lecture titled " Effective stress formulation in unsaturated soils: revisiting the current formulation from a thermodynamic standpoint" for the group.
-Friday, 16th September 2016, lecture at the workshop titled " Effective Stress in Multiphase Porous Media" organized by Prof. Schanz (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany).
-Two presentations on the recent works done in unsaturated soil mechanics lab of Shiraz University together with my colleague Professor Habibagahi and our Msc. students to be presented at European Unsaturated Soil Mechanics Conference in Paris, September 2016 (please find full program here).
-Invited lecture in Computational Geomechanics group of Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway, Trondheim, August 19, 2016) entitled "An energetic approach for formulating effective stress in unsaturated porous media: How should we proceed for unsaturated frozen soils?"
-Lecture in Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Porous Media Group entitled "Mechanics and hydraulics of multiphase porous materials: from unsaturated soils to chalk reservoirs" (August 22, 2016)
-Lecture in "Institutt for petroleumsteknologi" (Petroleum Eng. Institute of University of Stavanger) hosted by Prof. Rune Wiggo Time ; the theme of the presentation was the effective stress in multi-phase geomaterials and presentation was titled as "Mechanics and hydraulics of multiphase porous materials: from unsaturated soils to reservoirs" (August 23, 2016).
-Invited lecture at Laboratoire d'Energétique et de Mécanique Théorique et Appliquée (LEMTA, A joint unit of Université de Lorraine and CNRS, Nancy, France), titled "Hysteresis in unsaturated soils: the hidden information in flui-fluid interfaces", March 2016
-One day research visit and seminar titled "An energetic approach to the suction stress in unsaturated porous media: the role of fluid-fluid interfaces and fluid phase distribution" The Laboratory of Soil Mechanics (EPFL, Swiss), March 2016.
-One day research visit and discussion of recent works at Institute of Geotechnical Engineering (ETH, Zurich, Swiss) (hosted by Prof. Anagnostou), March 2016.
-One day research visit and discussion of research works at INSA Strasbourg (Institut national des sciences appliquées de Strasbourg), March 2016
-Public Lecture and seminar for Natural Hazard Group, titled Suction stress in unsaturated soils: what we know and what we might have missed in the current models, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, December 7, 2015.
-Research visit and presentation for core and senior researchers at Geomechanics and Porous Media Group of Paris Tech on the recent advances in the determination of the suction
stress in unsaturated soils, École des Ponts ParisTech, December 4, 2015
-Invited talk titled Effective stress in unsaturated soils: review of the current state of knowledge, disclosing the need for further experiments and discussing the open questions, Geomechanics Group of Chair of soil mechanics and foundation, Bochum University, Bochum, Germany, 9 March 2015.
-Presentation in Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble, France) on thermodynamic approach to the effective stress (mainly for scientific staff and geomechanics group on the occasion of (and after) Alert Geomaterials conference 2014
-Invited contribution at 11th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI), 20–25 July 2014. Barcelona (together With Majid Hassanizadeh (Utrecht University) and Bruno Chareyre (Grenoble Institute of Technology)).
-Invited contribution at International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Sydney Australia, 2-4 July 2014 (Together with Ghassem Habibagahi and Makan Sadjadi, Shiraz University).
-Invited contribution at 5th BIOT Conference on Poromechanics (BIOT-5), Vienna University of Technology, 2013 (together with Majid Hassanizadeh (Utrecht University)).