Hamed Sadeghi

Hamed Sadeghi

Associate Professor

Director of Geotechnical Group

Founding Director of the Green Geotech. Lab.

Chair of Iran InterPore Chapter

Chair of IGS TC106 – Unsaturated Soils

Coordinator of the SUT-HKUST Ph.D. Program

  Department of Civil Engineering
  Sharif University of Technology
  PO Box 11365-11155
  Tehran, Iran

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Biography

Hamed Sadeghi is Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Sharif University of Technology. He holds an impressive array of academic degrees, all with notable educational and research distinctions recognized by Iran’s National Elites Foundation. Sadeghi is pioneering innovative programs, serving as the first graduate and coordinator of the SUT-HKUST Dual-Degree PhD program. He is the director of the Geotechnical Group and the founding director of the Green Geotechnology Laboratory, a groundbreaking new academic infrastructure in civil and environmental engineering that is paving the way for advanced research on sustainable development and urban greenery. Over the past three decades, Sadeghi has been the recipient of numerous scientific and cultural awards, including the KANS honorary diploma, the "Dr. Kazemi-Ashtiani" prize recognizing him as a nationally distinguished young research assistant professor, as well as being named Sharif University’s distinguished student. He has also been awarded the best PhD thesis in civil and environmental engineering. Sadeghi’s research record includes over 80 published articles. He has served as the Chair of the Iran InterPore Chapter and the Chair of TC-106 Unsaturated Soils, of the Iranian Geotechnical Society. He is also a member of the university council for the Islamic Development Bank Loan. Sadeghi takes great pride in having recruited and supervised over 50 elite students as research or teaching assistants. His research team is at the forefront of advancing knowledge about the complex interplay between soil, solutes, the atmosphere, plants, and bacteria, conducting rigorous characterization, theoretical modeling, and numerical simulation in a multidisciplinary context.

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Research Interests

•   Multiphysics of natural and engineered soils
•   Green geotechnology and urban greenery
•   Bioremediation of contaminated soils
•   Ecohydrology of rhizosphere
•   Natural hazard mitigation

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