Rate My Professor Ataie Ashtiani

Professor Behzad Ataie Ashtiani serves as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Science at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland. With over three decades of experience in groundwater and surface water modelling, he currently holds the position of Principal Groundwater Modeler at Jacobs Ltd and is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) listed on the National Engineering Register (NER). His career includes a Principal Research Fellowship at Flinders University, a professorship at Sharif University of Technology where he served as Head of the Civil Engineering Department and Head of the Water and Environmental Engineering Section, a Senior Research Fellowship at Delft University of Technology, and his appointment as Adjunct Professor at the University of Newcastle.

Ataie Ashtiani's academic interests center on groundwater contamination, sustainable management, model-data interactions in hydrogeology, coastal groundwater management, seawater intrusion, landslide-generated waves, numerical modeling of subsurface flows, unsaturated zone contamination, scour around pile groups, and impulsive wave simulation. He has produced over 300 journal publications, among them highly influential papers such as "Seawater intrusion processes, investigation and management: Recent advances and future challenges" (Advances in Water Resources, 2013), "Tidal effects on sea water intrusion in unconfined aquifers" (Journal of Hydrology, 1999), "Sea-level rise impacts on seawater intrusion in coastal aquifers: Review and integration" (Journal of Hydrology, 2016), "Land subsidence: A global challenge" (Science of The Total Environment, 2021), and "Numerical modeling of subaerial and submarine landslide-generated tsunami waves—recent advances and future challenges" (Landslides, 2016). Ranked in the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University rankings, he has mentored over fifty research students, including nine PhD candidates, and directed projects on tunnelling, mining groundwater assessments, floodplain restoration, environmental impact assessments, gasoline leakage containment, groundwater optimization in arid regions, and environmental management in Australia, Iran, the Netherlands, and France.