Rate My Professor Rouzbeh Abbassi

Professor Rouzbeh Abbassi serves as Professor in Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, part of the Faculty of Science and Engineering. He obtained his PhD in Civil (Environmental) Engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2010, with a dissertation entitled "Mining treatment effluent pond modeling: A risk-based approach." Before joining Macquarie University, he worked as an environmental, safety, and risk engineering lecturer and senior lecturer at the Australian Maritime College of the University of Tasmania, where he also acted as Discipline Leader for the Civil Engineering Program and Director of Research. At Macquarie, his roles have included Associate Professor from 2021 to 2023, Professor since 2024, and Director of Research from 2022 to 2025. He maintains adjunct positions as Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland from 2018 to 2024 and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania from 2018 to 2024.

Abbassi's research focuses on safety and risk engineering, environmental modeling, dynamic accident modeling, environmental risk analysis in offshore oil and gas, AI applications in engineering and manufacturing, acid mine drainage management, and operational risk assessment in emerging energy systems such as lithium-ion batteries and hydrogen incidents. His scholarship has resulted in over 14,000 citations and an h-index of approximately 60, with 245 research outputs including 175 journal articles, 14 book chapters, and 14 reviews. Key contributions encompass editorship of "Artificial Intelligence in Future Mining" (2025, Elsevier) and "Methods in Chemical Process Safety: Emerging Energy Systems Part II" (2025, Elsevier), as well as chapters in "Integrated Microbial Fuel Cells for Wastewater Treatment" (2020). Notable papers include "Risk-based pipeline integrity management: a road map for the resilient pipelines" (2021). He has earned the Academic Excellence Award (2022), Best Paper Award (2022), David Dunsiger Award (2010), Top Reviewer Award for Process Safety and Environmental Protection (2018), and Teaching Merit Certificate (2016). Abbassi edits for Process Safety and Environmental Protection and has given invited talks on dynamic accident modeling and AI in engineering.