Mohammad Saberian

Dr. Mohammad Saberian

Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr Mohammad Saberian Boroujeni is a professional and experienced civil engineer with a PhD in civil engineering-geotechnical engineering from RMIT University.

Dr Mohammad Saberian Boroujeni is a professional and experienced civil engineer with a PhD in civil engineering-geotechnical engineering from RMIT University. He is currently working as a Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Engineering, RMIT University. Dr Saberian has outstanding knowledge, teaching experiences, and research background in the fields of road pavements, sustainable road asphalt, base, subbase, and subgrade layers, soil stabilisation, geo-infrastructures, piles, foundations, low-carbon footprint roads and concrete, applications of recycled materials and green binders in civil engineering and construction, civil engineering materials, cementitious compounds, chemistry of construction materials, circular economy and sustainability, life cycle assessments, artificial intelligence, machine learning, artificial neural network, and deep neural network. He has authored more than 85 Scopus-indexed journal papers published in peer-reviewed academic journals.

Dr Saberian has received 20 prizes, awards, and recognitions at international, national, the State of Victoria, and RMIT University levels, including the 2021 Victoria Fellowship, Finalist of the national “2023 Waste Innovation & Recycling Awards”, 2022 RMIT Award for Research Impact and Collaboration – Team, 2022 Malcolm Moore Industry Research Award, 2021 RMIT DVC Higher Degree by Research Prize, 2021 STEM Media Star Award, 2021 RMIT Prize for Best PhD Thesis, 2020 RMIT Prize for Research Excellence.

So far, eight of his innovative research/collaborative research studies, focusing on road pavements and civil engineering materials, have received extensive national and international media attention and coverage of more than 4,180, including The New York Times, ASCE Civil Engineering Magazine, BBC NEWS, Engineers Australia, ABC, 7news, Daily Mail, The Age, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, and many more..

He also has more than five years of industry-related work experience in Australia and overseas in the fields of geotechnics, pavements, concrete and infrastructures, cementitious compounds, dry mix, construction materials, and binders.

Supervisor projects

  • Use of Recycled Materials for the Stabilisation of Pavement
  • 17 May 2024
  • An innovative concrete slab and flexible pavement system
  • 13 Mar 2024
  • Development of eco-friendly low-carbon pavements using waste materials, low-carbon binders and a nonopolymer admixture
  • 21 Aug 2023
  • Development of Innovative low-carbon pavement using recycled waste materials
  • 3 Aug 2023
  • Pile foundation in expansive soils
  • 23 May 2023
  • Utilisation of e-waste as an aggregate replacement in concrete used in civil engineering projects.
  • 9 Jan 2023
  • development of high performance SFRC and its application in structural member under shear
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • Use of recycled materials for the stabilization of unsuitable soils and sub-grades
  • 10 Nov 2022
  • Use of recycled materials for the stabilization of unsuitable soils and sub-grades
  • 16 Aug 2021
  • Use of recycled materials for the stabilization of unsuitable soils and sub-grades
  • 11 Aug 2021
  • Stabilisation of High and Low Reactive Clays Utilising Glass Waste and Polymer for Application in Road Pavement Subgrade
  • 8 Jul 2021
  • Experimental Study of Recycled Waste Material and Polymer-based Materials for Expansive Clay Stabilisation in Road Pavement Subgrade
  • 14 Oct 2020

Research interests

Civil Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Road Pavements, Concrete, Soil Stabilisation, Geo-infrastructures, Piles, Foundations, Life Cycle Assessment, Artificial Intelligence

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