Dr. Kamelia Atefi Monfared

Biography

Kamelia Atefi-Monfared is an Associate Professor at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University. She has completed her Masters, Doctoral, and Postdoctoral studies in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Before joining York University in August 2020, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering Department at the University at Buffalo, New York, starting in 2016. K. Atefi is a registered professional engineer in Ontario and has held several esteemed positions including Editorial Board Member of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal. She is a member of the Canadian Standards Association and serves as secretary for the Technical Committee TC308 on Energy Geotechnics under the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. With over 16 years of research experience in computational geomechanics, her work primarily focuses on designing environmentally friendly operations for energy and water production and storage, as well as developing resilient infrastructures to adapt to climate change. Her current research revolves around coupled processes in geomechanics and aims to develop eco-friendly, bio-mediated techniques for stabilizing ground tailings and enhancing energy and water production/storage operations. K. Atefi has been awarded multiple competitive grants, including being the Principal Investigator for NSERC Discovery and New Frontiers Research Fund grants, and received the TUST Paper Award in 2023 from the journal Tunneling Underground Space Technology.

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