Rate My Professor Tohid Ghanbari-Ghazijahani

Tohid Ghanbari-Ghazijahani is a Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering in the School of Engineering at Macquarie University, where he joined as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in 2022 through an ongoing contract and has been approved for promotion to Senior Lecturer in 2025. He earned his PhD in Civil-Structural Engineering from the University of Tasmania, accompanied by a Graduate Certificate in Research from the same university, a BEng in Civil Engineering, and an MEng in Structural Engineering; his PhD was awarded with the Dean of Faculty's Exceptional Research Performance Award. His career trajectory includes serving as Teaching Staff and Research Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium (2021-2022), Research Associate (Level B) at the University of South Australia (2019-2020), University Research Fellow (Level B) at the University of Adelaide (2018-2019), and Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Associate at the University of Tasmania (2017-2018). Additional appointments encompass Visiting Professor and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University of Munich (2022-2024 for six months), visiting lecturer at Xi'an University of Science and Technology, China (2016), and Lecturer at Payame Noor University, Urmia, Iran (2010-2013).

Dr. Ghanbari-Ghazijahani's research interests focus on experimental techniques in structural engineering, 3D printing in construction, steel and composite structures incorporating FRP, concrete, and timber, design and stability of thin-walled structures, buckling analysis, numerical simulations, fatigue, and cyclic experiments. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 40 in top-ranked structural engineering journals. Key publications include "Timber beams and columns reinforced with steel and FRP - techniques and performance: a state-of-the-art review" (2026), "A systematic review: Enhancing cementitious composites through additively manufactured lattice structures" (2025), "A comprehensive review: self-healing methods and cementitious composites" (2025), "Lightweight timber I-beams reinforced by composite materials" (2020), and "Experiments and design of concrete-filled steel tubes with large-scale diameter-to-thickness ratio" (2023). His accolades comprise the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (2021), Advance HE Fellow (FHEA, 2024), Outstanding Contribution as an Early-Career Researcher in Teaching from Macquarie University's School of Engineering (2023), Beacon of Enlightenment Fellowship (2017), and Distinguished Lecturer Award from Payame Noor University (2013). Currently, he is the unit convenor and lecturer for Design of Steel and Timber Structures and Structural Analysis at Macquarie University.