Sathees Nava

Dr Sathees Navaratnam is a lecturer in the Department of Civil & Infrastructure Engineering, at RMIT University. He has more than 16 years of research and industry experience in the UK, Australia, Singapore and Sri Lanka, specialising in the major fields of Civil Engineering building design and construction. He works in the areas of structural timber framing, steel structures, prefabricated buildings and mass timber construction systems followed by individual joint tests, full-scale tests, fire tests, wind tunnel model analysis and computational fluid dynamic and finite element models.

Accomplishments:
- CSIRO Postgraduate Studentship (2013-2016)
- Graduate Research Scheme grants from James Cook University (2013-2014, 2014-2015)
- Publication grant from the Graduate Research Scheme at James Cook University (2015-2016)
- Received On-Time Completion Publication grant from James Cook University (2016-2017)
- John Mclntyre Engineering Prize for the best postgraduate student at James Cook University (2013)
- Outstanding Contribution award in Reviewing from Engineering Structures (2018)
- Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) Fellowship (2022-2023)

Professional interests:
- Reviewers of Engineering Structures, Journal of Wind Structures, Sustainability-Open Access Journal, Buildings-Open Access Journal, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
- Chartered Member of Engineers Australia