About me

Dr Sanjay Shrawan Nimbalkar

I am an Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney. I am involved in teaching courses at postgraduate and graduate levels. I am passionate about research while maintaining a strong commitment to the quality of outcomes. My research has primarily focused on railway track design, railway embankment stability analysis, in-situ testing, in-house and on-site instrumentation, retaining structures, ground improvement techniques, tailing dams, analytical methods, limit equilibrium approaches, and constitutive and numerical modeling.

I have published a number of research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, both at the national and international level. My scholarly articles are internationally recognised and among the most highly cited. My doctoral research work on the pseudo-dynamic method of analyses for earth retaining structures is considered one of the most significant contributions to the field of soil dynamics and earthquake engineering.

I am a recipient of Institution of Civil Engineer’s (ICE) 2014 Thomas Telford Premium award in the area of ground improvement. I am honored with the Second Professor Joseph M Sussman Best Paper Prize awarded to the most outstanding paper published within Frontiers in Built Environment - Transportation and Transit Systems in 2019. This is an annual prize, introduced in 2018 to commemorate the legacy of late Specialty Chief Editor of the section, Massachusetts Institute of Technology JR East Professor Joseph M Sussman. I have also received Editor's Choice Award for the best paper in International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering in 2020.

I am a chartered professional Civil and Structural Engineer (CPEng), a fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), and certified on the National Engineering Register (NER) of Australia. In the past, I also worked as a research fellow in the ARC (Australian Research Council) Center of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering (CGSE) spearheaded by the University of Newcastle, the University of Western Australia and the University of Wollongong, Australia. I have more than two decades of experience in academics, research, training, and consultancy. I have been actively involved in geotechnical site investigation, full-scale in-situ track monitoring, and the design of rail infrastructure for both civil and transportation industries. I have also played an active role in a number of contract research, testing, and consultancy projects in Australia and India.