University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Grainger College of Engineering
Civil & Environmental Engineering

Abouzar Sadrekarimi

Abouzar Sadrekarimi
Abouzar Sadrekarimi (PhD 09)
Assistant Professor
University of Western Ohio

CEEAA Young Alumni Achievement Award, 2015

For his significant academic and professional contributions to understanding the behavior of sandy soils during landslides, liquefaction failures, and in-situ field tests; for developing and performing advanced soil mechanics laboratory testing and studying earthquake damage to seawalls and port structures through geotechnical physical model experiments; and for his significant research and technology development contributions.

Biography

Dr. Abouzar Sadrekarimi is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Western University. Dr. Sadrekarimi received his Ph.D. in 2009 in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Thereafter, he joined Golder Associates (Burnaby, BC) where he was involved with the engineering analysis and design of piles, offshore structures, building foundations, and slopes. 

Dr. Sadrekarimi’s research interests include soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering, in-situ soil characterization, advanced soil testing, and consolidation behavior of soft soils and he has over 40 published conferences and journals papers in these areas. Dr. Sadrekarimi has received many awards including the prestigious Ralph B. Peck Fellowship Award, Mavis Memorial award from the University of Illinois’s department of civil engineering, the best paper awards at the 2008 GeoCongress Conference, the New Madrid Chapter of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Award and the 2009 Dam Safety Conference. Dr. Sadrekarimi is a member of the Canadian Geotechnical Society, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, and American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). 

Since his employment at Western University, Dr. Sadrekarimi has taught courses in “soil mechanics”, “geotechnical engineering”, “geotechnical site investigation” and “ground anchoring systems” for undergraduate and graduate students as well as supervising the research thesis of many MESc and PhD students.