Dr Amin Soltani

Name Dr Amin Soltani Amin Soltani 
Position Lecturer
Campus Gippsland
Room 4W-124
Phone +613 53276792
Emaila.soltani@federation.edu.au

Research interests

My principal research interests lie in the fields of Experimental Soil Mechanics, Transportation/Pavement Geotechnics and Sustainable Geomaterials, with emphasis on the following specific topics (or research keywords):

  • Expansive/Problematic Soils
  • Unsaturated Soils/Geomaterials
  • Ground Improvement and Soil Stabilization
  • Geotechnics of Solid Waste Materials
  • Soil–(Bio)Polymer Technology
  • Permeable Pavements
  • Physics-Informed Data-Driven Modeling

Short biography

Dr Amin Soltani, recipient of the VESKI Victoria Fellowship Award in 2022, is a Lecturer (and Undergraduate Coordinator) of Civil Engineering in the Institute of Innovation, Science and Sustainability, and a member of the Future Regions Research Center, at Federation University Australia. He also holds an Honorary/Adjunct Fellow affiliation with the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne (since October 2020). Amin completed his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Geotechnical), with Dean’s Commendation, at the University of Adelaide, in 2018. Before his current appointment at Federation University (which commenced in June 2020), Amin was a Research Fellow in Geotechnical Engineering at the Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide (2018–2020), where he played a significant leading role in the advancement of numerous high-profile research projects in collaboration with reputable industry partners, city councils, road authorities, and state government agencies in South Australia and Victoria.

Amin is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng, NER, MIEAust; Civil Eng, Geotechnical Eng) with Engineers Australia; his principal research interests lie in the fields of Experimental Soil Mechanics, Transportation/Pavement Geotechnics and Sustainable Geomaterials. An exciting aspect of Amin’s applied cross-disciplinary research involves reusing solid waste materials and/or industrial by-products, in conjunction with emerging trends in civil and geotechnical engineering, such as polymer technology, to develop novel green geomaterials for a variety of civil engineering applications (including road infrastructure), thereby fostering ‘sustainable’ and ‘resilient’ infrastructure systems for future generations. Since 2017, Amin has co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed journal papers in high-ranking international journals. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Arabian Journal of Geosciences (Springer) and Editorial Board Member for Geotechnical and Geological Engineering (Springer).

To discuss potential research and practice collaborations, please contact me at a.soltani@federation.edu.au.

Qualifications

  • 2023  - GCertEd, Federation University, Australia
  • 2018 - PhD (Civil/Geotechnical Eng), The University of Adelaide, Australia
  • 2015 - MSc (Eng, ANZSCO 233211), University of Tehran, Iran
  • 2012 - BSc (Eng, ANZSCO 233211), University of Tehran, Iran

Teaching areas

Extended research profile