Principal investigator
BIOGRAPHY
I am an assistant professor at the University of Utah’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering since August 2021. My research involves laboratory and numerical simulations to model the coupled thermal, hydraulic, and mechanical behavior of geomaterials using high-resolution, multi-scale, and multi-phase process monitoring techniques. Before joining the U, I was a research scientist at Caltech, where I studied the behavior of hydraulic fractures in naturally fractured rocks through laboratory experiments and numerical simulations, as well as the elasto-plastic behavior of particle impacts. I also worked as a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach, for two years. I received my Ph.D. degree from Georgia Tech and my M.Sc. degree from the Amirkabir University of Technology, both in geotechnical engineering. I have worked in the civil and geotechnical engineering industry for over six years and am a holder of a Professional Engineering License from the State of Utah.
EDUCATION
3- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering Aug. 11 - May 15
Thesis: Physical Properties of Geomaterials for Thermal Energy Geosystems
Minor: Computational heat transfer and mass transport through porous media
M.Sc., Geotechnical Engineering Aug. 11 - May 13
2- Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
M.Sc., Geotechnical Engineering Sep. 04 - Mar. 07
Thesis: Numerical Modeling of the Behavior of Granular Materials under Triaxial Loading with Discrete Element Method
1- Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
B.Sc., Civil Engineering Sep. 99 - Jun. 03
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Assistant Professor, The University of Utah Jul. 21 - on
- Lecturer, California State University, Long Beach Aug. 19 - June 21
- Lecturer, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Aug. 19 - Dec. 19
- Research Scientist, California Institute of Technology Oct. 17 - Dec. 19
- Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology Feb. 16 - Sep. 17
- Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology Aug. 11 - Dec. 15
- Senior Engineer, Imen Saazeh Fadak Consultants, Tehran Jun. 08 - Jul. 10
- Civil and Geotechnical Engineer, VPSPS, Tehran Sep. 05 - Jan. 09
- Staff Engineer, Prozheh Saaz Consultants, Tehran, Iran Jul. 03 - Aug. 05
HONORS & AWARDS
ASCE ExCEED Teaching Workshop Jul. 31, 2023
Early Career Distinguished Service Award, ARMA Jun. 29, 2023
Affiliate Faculty, Global Change and Sustainability Center Oct. 3, 2022
ARMA Future Leader, American Rock Mechanics Association Jun. 24, 2020
WPI STEM Faculty Launch, NSF, Worcester Polytech. Inst. Oct. 2-3, 2019
NHERI Summer Institute, NSF, Univ. Texas San Antonio Jun. 4-6, 2018
USUCGER Early Career Workshop, NSF, Case Western Reserve University May 20-22, 2018
Graduate Research Fellowship, CEE, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA Aug. 2011 - May 2015
Full Scholarship for Graduate Studies, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran Sep. 2004 - Mar. 2007
Full Scholarship for Undergrad Studies, Semnan Univ., Iran Sep. 1999 - Jun. 2003
Programming Olympiad, Runner Up, Tehran, Iran Nov. 1998
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Society of Civil Engineers: ASCE 2001-on
Geo-Institute: GI and Engineering Mechanics Institute: EMI 2007-on
International Society of Soil Mech. and Geotech. Engr.: ISSMGE 2007-on
US Universities Council on Geotech. Education and Research: USUCGER 2015-on
American Rock Mechanics Association: ARMA 2017-on
International Society of Rock Mechanics: ISRM 2017-on
American Geophysical Union: AGU 2016-on
American Chemical Society 2022-on
The Scientic Research Society: Sigma Xi 2014-2019
Society of Women Engineers SWE 2016-2019
Society of Petroleum Engineers: SPE 2017-2020
Society of Exploration Geophysics: SEG 2023-on