Dr Ali Tolooiyan - Researcher Profile

Ali Tolooiyan

Address

Monash University
Wellington Road, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 27162

Tel: +61 3 512 27162

Email: Ali.Tolooiyan@monash.edu


Biography

After graduating in BSc of water engineering with first class honours in 2005, I spent more than one year working as a research engineer in Soil Conservation and Watershed Management Research Institute (SCWMRI), Iran, and as a consultant engineer in local consultant engineering companies on a wide range of projects such as designing coastal dykes, urban drainage systems and foundation and earth structures engineering. In 2006 I returned to academy and moved to Malaysia to study in MSc of geotechnical engineering on the topic of slope stability. I subsequently joined University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland at 2008 as a PhD researcher in geotechnical engineering in the field of shallow and deep foundations and finally completed my PhD in 2010. After completing my PhD, considering my background in both water and geotechnical engineering, I was funded by UCD and spent a year as Post-Doctoral researcher in the field of offshore geotechnical engineering at

UCD Geotechnical Research Group (GRG), and associate lecturer / lecturer in advanced geotechnical engineering at UCD and Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), before taking up the academic Level-B position at Monash University. In 2012 I moved to Australia and joined Monash University’s Geotechnical and Hydrogeological Engineering Research Group (GHERG) and started working closely with government and industry to further improve the safety and sustainability of open-cut mines in the Victoria. I am currently leading a research project focused on realistic geotechnical FEM analysis of open-cut mines. In addition to my research activities, I have consulted on a wide range of industry projects, including foundation and earth-slope design in Europe, East Asia and Middle East.

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Research & Supervision Interests

    - Applications of the numerical methods in geotechnical engineering

    - Slope stability and excavation

    - Offshore geotechnics

    - Constitutive models of engineering materials

    - Crack and fracture modelling

    - Computational mechanics

    - Response of cyclically loaded foundations

    - Static and cyclic triaxial testing

    - Piled foundations

    - Onshore and offshore geotechnical field investigation

    - Heat transfer in porous material

Keywords

Geotechnic ,Geotechnical, Geomechanic, Geomechanal, FEM, Foundation, Slope, Excavation, Mine

Qualifications

PD in Geotechnical Engineering
Institution: University College Dublin (UCD)
Year awarded: 2011
PhD in Geotechnical Engineering
Institution: University College Dublin (UCD)
Year awarded: 2011

Languages

  • Persian (Farsi)
  • Indonesian/Malaysian
  • Kurdish
  • English