Profile

I was awarded my PhD degree (Geotechnical Engineering) by Queen’s University (Canada) in 2018 for a thesis titled “Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Stability of Horizontal Boreholes during Horizontal Directional Drilling”.

After completing my PhD, I held the following positions:

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Civil Engineering at Queen’s University over two separate periods (July, 2018 to August, 2019; and June, 2020 to September, 2020). I
  • Toronto Office of Thurber Engineering, Canada, as a Geotechnical Engineer in Training from September, 2019 to May, 2020.
  • Research Associate at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge from October, 2020 to June, 2023.
  • Teaching Associate at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge from October, 2022 to June, 2023.
  • I joined in the Croydon Office of Mott MacDonald as an Assistant Geotechnical Engineer from September, 2023 to March, 2024.
  • I became a Lecturer in Infrastructure Engineering at the School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering, Loughborough University in April, 2024.

Professional affiliations

  • Member of Pipe Guild UK

Awards

  • Best reviewer in 2019 – 2020 for Journal of Pipeline Systems Engineering and Practice-American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)

External activities

  • Reviewer for >20 international journals related to Geotechnical Engineering

Key collaborators

My research and enterprise activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners, including:

  • Academic: Queen’s University (Canada), University of Cambridge, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, China University of Geoscience (Wuhan), Sun Yat-sen University
  • Stakeholder: Mott MacDonald