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Amin Askarinejad is an Associate Professor in experimental soil mechanics at Delft University of Technology. He also serves as the director of the research programme for dams safety at the Swiss Federal Office of Energy. He completed his PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 2013, after which he joined TU Delft in 2014 as a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering (IGT) at ETH Zurich. His research interests include the seismic safety of embankment dams, development of early warning systems for landslides, and soil-structure interaction, especially focused on foundations for renewable energy harvesting structures. His work integrates geotechnical expertise, physical modelling, advanced sensing technologies, and numerical methods, and he has participated in numerous academic and industrial research projects across Switzerland, the Netherlands, and South America, including activities funded by the European Union. Notably, he contributed to the design and monitoring of the full-scale Dutch Dike failure experiment. Dr. Askarinejad has been recognized for his contributions with awards such as the R.M. Quigley Award from the Canadian Geotechnical Society and the George Stephenson Medal from the Institute of Civil Engineers in London.
Delft University of Technology • Delft, Netherlands
Research interests include seismic safety of embankment dams, development of early warning systems for landslides, and soil-structure interaction.
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