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Meet our team of world-renowned researchers, engineers, and talented staff.

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Prof Abbas Rajabifard

Program Leader - Infrastructure
abbas.r@unimelb.edu.au
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Dr Alice Kesminas

Enterprise Professor - Infrastructure
alice.kesminas@unimelb.edu.au
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Damon Beckwith

Business Development Manager - Infrastructure
damon.beckwith@unimelb.edu.au

Research theme leaders

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Prof Colin Duffield

Mega-projects, procurement and circular economy
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Prof Abbas Rajabifard

Built environment Digital Twins and simulation
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Prof Nelson Lam

Critical infrastructure
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Dr Mahdi Miri Disfani

Critical infrastructure
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Prof Ian Young

Critical infrastructure
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Dr Amir Khodabandeh

Critical infrastructure

Academic Working Group

Ellie Hajizadeh, Expertise in Materials Informatics, Sustainable and Green Materials & Manufacturing; involved in the digital twin, digital earth, simulations, and modelling. Interest in new domains including Digital Alchemy in digital twin, critical infrastructure, and building materials.



Mohsen Kalantari, Building Information Modelling, Digital Twin, Digital Engineering, 3D Spatial Data Infrastructure.



Dr Jagannath Aryal, Built Environment, Digital Twin, Digital Earth, Simulations and Modelling.



Associate Professor Mahdi Miri Disfani, Active in Sustainable Geotechnics, Recycled Material in Pavement Geotechnics and Application of Optic Fibres for Geo-Structure Health Monitoring.



Professor Nelson Lam, Robustness of built infrastructure in rare events of collision, extreme bad weather, landslides/rockfalls, and earthquakes. Design and assessment of structures including modular buildings to achieve satisfactory performance in these rare events.



Felix Hui, Lean construction, mega-projects, project management, circular economy, sustainable manufacturing.