Mohammad Saberian

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 a Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow26 at the Department of Civil and Infrastructural Engineering, School of Engineering, RMIT University. Prior to that, he was a Vice Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT, a very competitive position with a success rate of less than 2%. 

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, concrete, applications of recycled materials and green binders in civil engineering and construction, construction 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 100 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, 2024 Universities Australia’s Shaping Australia Award, Finalist of the national “2023 Waste Innovation & Recycling Awards”, 2025 RMIT Award for Research Impact and Collaboration – Team, 2022 Malcolm Moore Industry Research Award, 2022 RMIT Award for Research Impact and Collaboration – Team, 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, nine 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 4,820, 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.