Riadh Al-Mahaidi specialises in concrete structures. His major research interest is in finite element analysis of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, shear in high strength concrete and strength assessment of concrete bridges. He is presently involved in strength assessment of old concrete bridges in Victoria.

Dr. A. (Malek) Bouazza
CivIng, PhD

Malek Bouazza joined the Department in March 1996 from Belgium. His particular interests are in environmental geomechanics and soil improvement/reinforcement methods. His research interests include containment technologies for waste disposal, contaminant transport through porous media, soil remediation, geosynthetics and soil improvement.

Associate Professor Gary Codner
DipCE, BE (Hons), MBA, PhD, FIEAust, Director of Teaching

Gary Codner carries out urban water quality studies and has a background in water resources engineering and environmental engineering. He is an invited member of the National Board of the Society for Environmental Engineering of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. He is the inaugural Chairman of the new College of Environmental Engineers within the Institution of Engineers, Australia. Gary alternates as Director/Deputy Director of the Bachelor of Environmental Engineering degree.

Dr. Ana Deletic
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD

Ana Deletic joined the department in January 2003 from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland where she lectured in Environmental engineering. With a background in hydraulics and fluid mechanics, Ana has in recent years turned her research interests to water pollution from diffuse sources, particularly in relation to urban runoff. In the UK she was part of a research group on Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems and established an urban experimental catchment. Ana is now actively engaged in the CRC for Catchment Hydrologys research program on Urban Stormwater Management.

Associate Professor Raphael Grzebieta
MgrInz (Hons), PhD, MIEAust, CPEng (NAPER3), MSAE, MSAEA

Raphael Grzebieta specialises in structural crashworthiness, crash simulation and testing, and stress analysis of mechanical and structural components. He has been involved in a number of impact and crash related research, commercial stress analysis and accident investigative projects related to road-side crash barriers and support structures, rollover of 4WD vehicles, vehicle crash reconstruction, tram crashworthiness, road petrol tankers, trucks, tractors, earth moving machinery, cranes, booms and bridge impact barrier beams. He is also involved in research of thin-walled tubular structures subjected to large deformation and has an interest in structures made from plastic composite materials. Raphael presently heads up the crashworthiness research team.

Dr. Asadul Haque
BE, Meng, PhD, MIEAust

Asadul Haque has more than 10 years of teaching and professional experience in the field of geotechnical engineering both in Australia and overseas. Prior to joining Monash University in June 2002, Dr Haque worked as a geotechnical engineer for Rail Infrastructure Corporation (RIC) of NSW since 1999. He gained substantial professional expertise through a wide variety of geotechnical engineering projects on slope stability, embankments, numerical modelling of tunnelling works and excavations, bridge foundations, railway track formation, geotechnical monitoring and site investigation. He is currently involved in research on filtration behaviour under dynamic loading, soil improvement by injecting slurry, infilled rock joints behaviour and in-situ testing. He is also interested in the behaviour of mudstone in the light of critical-state soil mechanics.

Associate Professor Robert Keller
BE (Hons), PhD, MASCE, MIEAust, MIPENZ

Bob Keller is currently investigating hydraulic problems with the cooling water at the Huntly Power station in New Zealand. He recently carried out an analysis of surges occurring upstream of the Kew Pumping Station in Melbourne. His research fields are: river engineering, hydraulic structures, and computer modelling of rivers and flood plains.

Dr. Jayantha Kodikara
BSc (Eng) (Hons), PhD, MIEAust, CPEng

Jayantha Kodikara specialises in geomechanics and environmental geomechanics. He has over 16 years of experience in these fields involving lecturing, researching and consulting. His primary research areas include piled foundations, geotechnical interface modelling, unsaturated soil-behaviour, clayey liner and cover design, pavement analysis, soil stabilisation, and soil evaporation modelling.

Dr. Tony Ladson
BE (Hons), MSc, PhD

Tony Ladson joined the department from the University of Melbourne where he was a research fellow in the river restoration program of the Co-operative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology. Prior to that he worked in consulting in river management in Victoria and Nth Queensland and has worked and studied in the US. Tonys major research interests are environmental management of rivers including environmental flows and monitoring of river condition.

Associate Professor Bob Milner
BE, MEngSc, PhD, DIC, FIEAust, MIIE Executive DIrector, Monash Timber Engineering Technology Centre

Bob Milner lectures to Civil engineering students in the early and later years of the course. Bob concentrates on the Department's continued development of the Timber Centre.

Dr. Gavin Mudd
BE (Hons), PhD

Dr Gavin Mudd joined the Department in May 2003, coming from a broad background in Environmental Engineering. After completing an undergraduate Env Eng degree from RMIT in 1994, he worked on a PhD on the management and disposal of coal ash wastes in the Latrobe Valley from 1995-2000 at Victoria University. The following 3 years has included work in Queensland, Kakadu National Park and South and Western Australia. His research and interests include groundwater management and modelling, environmental impact assessment, water quality, and tailings and waste management in mining. Assessing and demonstrating sustainability are key themes in all of this research.

Dr. P.G. Ranjith
BSc (Eng) (Hons), PhD, MASCE, CMARMA, MAGU

Ranjith joined the Department from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where he worked as an assistant professor in Rock Mechanics. His areas of research include modelling of multiphase flow through rocks (related to petroleum engineering), rock physics, rock fracture mechanism, gas outbursts and groundwater inundation in mines and tunnels, rock and soil dynamics, tunnelling in soft and hard ground. He also has research interest in the use of neural network for reservoir characterization.

Associate Professor Geoff Rose
BE (Hons), MSc, PhD, MIEAust

Geoff Rose came to the Department from a private consulting practice and prior to that was an academic staff member at the University of Melbourne. Projects included a study to optimise the location of maintenance depots for Vic Roads, a scheme for optimum management of their mechanical plant, and a design study for a new passenger terminal at Kingsford Smith airport, for Australian Airlines. His major research fields are intelligent transport systems and sustainable transport. He is currently undertaking research on freeway incident management and school travel. Geoff is Head of the Institute of Transport Studies.

Dr. Jay Sanjayan
BSc (Eng)(Hons), PhD, MIEAust

Jay Sanjayan is investigating the use of slag in high strength concrete, long term deflection in high strength concrete, buckling of wall panels, design of tilt-up walls, and alkali activation of slag.

Mr. Erwin Weinmann
DipIng, MEngSc, MIEAust, CPEng

Erwin Weinmann worked for many years in the Victoria Water industry before joining the Department. Through the CRC for Catchment Hydrology he is actively involved in research related to water resource planning and management. His other research interests relate to design flood estimation and applications of risk management in water engineering.

Dr. Bill Wong
BSc(Eng), PhD, MICE, CEng, MIEAust

Bill Wong graduated from the University of London. He worked as a consulting civil engineer for a number of years since graduation. He was a scholarship holder for undertaking research at the University of NSW before taking up the present position as a lecturer at Monash University. His research interest is in the nonlinear behaviour of structures.

Mr. Rick Wootton
BE, MEngSc, DipCE, TTTC

Rick Wootton has the longest association of any staff member with the Caulfield Campus of Monash having obtained his Diplomas there in the sixties (then Caulfield Institute of Technology). He lectures in water engineering and computing. Rick is an avid gardener who specialises in growing Australian native orchids and enjoys a social game of tennis.

Professor William Young
BE, MSc, GradDipMgt, MBA, PhD, FIEAust, FITE, FCIT, PEng, Head of Civil Engineering

Bill Young is Head of the Department of Civil Engineering. His principal research interests are on the impact of transport on the environment and traffic areas. He is involved in the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Transport.

Professor. Xiao-Ling Zhao
PhD, ME, MASCE, MIEAust, CPEng, MCCES Deputy Head of Civil Engineering

Xiao-Ling Zhao joined the department in 1994. His research interests are tubular structures under various loads such as fatigue, earthquake, vibration and fire.