I am Ali Lashgari, an accomplished geotechnical engineer. I secured the 1st ranking among M.Sc. (2013) and Ph.D. (2019) graduates of Geotechnical Engineering at Semnan University, Iran. I contributed to the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES) as a research assistant starting in 2013. Throughout 2016-2024, I cooperated with different universities (e.g., Imam Khomeini International University) as a visiting lecturer. In 2014, I became a registered professional engineer in the Iran Construction Engineering Organization (IRCEO). Subsequently, I joined the Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) in 2017 and became a member of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance (GEER) team in 2022. Bridging academia and industry, I co-founded the Intelligent Environmental Risks Analyzers (Ltd.), a Science-Based Company, in 2016 to apply research findings in predicting natural hazards.

My research interests are at the intersection of geotechnical engineering and seismic hazards. I have focused on modified sliding block methods, particularly CSSR approaches, leading to innovative solutions for estimating seismic sliding displacement. My work with seismic landslide displacement data involves big data analysis using the Iranian earthquake databank to develop local and global predictive models and fragility functions for seismic landslide hazard assessment. Through extensive data analysis and probabilistic approaches, my aim is to enhance the understanding of geohazards and contribute to the broader field of geotechnical earthquake engineering. 

My commitment to this domain is evident in my involvement in numerous research projects (e.g., granted by Iran National Science Foundation, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - European Union, etc) and academic publications covering seismic landslide hazard assessment, liquefaction, offshore foundations, site response analysis, pipeline geohazards, probabilistic analysis of geotechnical data.

Associate Prof. Amin Barari holds the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Moreover, he is a visiting associate professor at Purdue University, United States. He joined the AAU faculty as an Associate Professor in 2018-2022. He also took up several Postdoc and visiting research associate positions at AAU and Technical University of Denmark, and Virginia Tech (USA). 

His research lies in the field of civil and geotechnical engineering at the emerging green energy technologies and soil-structure interaction including the behavior of offshore foundations for wind turbines. He has supervised over 20 M.Sc. 3 and Ph.D. students. He has a track record of 130+ research publications (h- index 33). 

He heavily contributed to attract more than EUR 20 million research funding awarded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme through i4Offshore collaborative project. He is co-founder of the Mechanical Sciences Journal sponsored by the Delft University of Technology and serves on the Editorial Board of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Geotechnical Engineering, Ships and Offshore Structures, Journal of Marine Georesources, and Geotechnology. Prof. Barari has also been part of the organizing committee for several international conferences (e.g., OMAE).