Rate My Professor Abbas El-Zein

Abbas El-Zein has produced over 165 peer-reviewed publications, with notable contributions including 'Geophysical and social vulnerability to floods at municipal scale under climate change: The case of an inner-city suburb of Sydney' (Ecological Indicators, 2021), 'Flexible Wall Permeameters for Research on Microplastic Transport in Soils' (Environmental Science & Technology, 2025), 'Predicting soil water retention curves using machine learning' (Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2024), 'The effect of diameter and moisture content on biomechanical properties of tree roots' (Plant and Soil, 2024), and 'Measurements of the relative permeability to CO2-and-brine' (Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 2021). His scholarship has accumulated 3,798 citations and an h-index of 35 according to Google Scholar. El-Zein has obtained competitive grants from the Australian Research Council, such as Discovery Project DP130100203 and a 2024 award of $625,501 for studying micro- and nanoplastics transport. He teaches environmental geotechnics, supervises PhD students on microplastics and related topics, and contributes to professional service within the Faculty of Engineering.