Team

The following list only include researchers who have worked/are working with the supervision of Dr Rezania at the same institution.

Current RA & PhD students:

	Qingyang Zhang, PhD student at University of Warwick. Start Oct. 2025. Project: Learning spatial structure from sparse geotechnical data: An AI-enhanced modelling framework.
	Sijie Fu, PhD student at University of Warwick. Start Oct. 2025. Project:Scaling-aware stochastic AI for extreme-risk pricing in critical energy systems.
	Bahman Ibrahimi, PhD student at University of Warwick. Start Jan. 2025. Project: Valorisation of high-volume, low-value waste material into fly ash based geopolymer.
	Ahmad Al Mohammad, PhD student at University of Warwick. Start Oct. 2023. Project: Low carbon footprint construction materials from waste glass as aggregates and calcination of clay rich mining waste.
	Negar Razaghi, PhD student at University of Warwick. Start Jul. 2022. Project: EU-ITN REMEDI Converting Fe containing materials into filter-stable sorbent materials for CMA removal.
Past members:
	Dr Stefano Seccia, PhD student at University of Warwick. 01/2022 – 07/2026. Project: EU-ITN REMEDI Effects of Fe supplementation on the ecology and CMA dynamics in rivers and lakes.
	Dr Hamed Taghavizadeh, PhD student at University of Warwick. 11/2021 – 06/2026. Project: RECON - Recycling and upcycling of waste geomaterials and their application as valued durable constituents for high-level constructions (joint PhD with CY Cergy Paris Université).
	Dr Hamid Moghimi, PhD student at University of Warwick. 01/2022 – 06/2026. Project: Multiscale modelling of pesticide transport in soil and water systems (main Supervisor Prof Nezhad; joint PhD with Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
	Dr Hesam Dejaloud, Postdoc at University of Warwick. 08/2023 – 08/2025. Project: Development of a coupled SFE-MPM numerical framework for small to large deformation analysis.
	Dr Xian Liu, PhD student at University of Warwick. 01/2022 – 06/2025. Project: Development of probabilistic inverse analysis methods for incorporating soil parameters variations into advanced geotechnical stochastic analysis (Joint with China Sun Yat-Sen University).
	Dr Josephine Foghi, PhD student at University of Warwick. 01/2020 – 09/2024. Project: The Use of Coal Mining Waste as Fine Aggregate in Foam Concrete for Semi-Structural Applications.
	Dr Liem Vo, Postdoc at University of Warwick. 03/2021 – 09/2023. Project: From Mining Waste to Valuable Resource: New Concepts for a Circular Economy.
	Dr Derek Ma, Postdoc at University of Warwick. 04/2022 – 02/2023. Project: Upscaling the modelling algorithms to predict behaviour of engineering scale structures constructed of geowaste.
	Dr Hesam Dejaloud, PhD student at University of Warwick. 10/2019 – 07/2023. Thesis: Development and numerical implementation of an adaptive anisotropic soil constitutive modelling framework.
	Dr Bradley Sheridan, PhD student at University of Warwick. 10/2017 – 07/2022. Thesis: Experimental investigation on the impact of temperature during creep and stress relaxation behaviour of London clay
	Dr Elisa Baioni, PhD student at University of Warwick. 10/2017 – 04/2022. Thesis: Modeling Solute Transport and Mixing in Porous Media Under Turbulent Flow Conditions: Application to the Hyporheic Zone.
	Dr Guotao (Derek) Ma, PhD student at University of Warwick. 10/2017 – 04/2022. Thesis: Probabilistic analysis of post-failure behaviour of landslides using stochastic material point method.
	Dr Hung D. Nguyen, PhD student at University of Nottingham. 02/2015 – 05/2020. Thesis: Modelling the time dependent behaviour of anisotropic soft clay using non-stationary flow surface theory.
	Dr Alexander Hardcastle, PhD student at University of Nottingham. 10/2015 – 10/2019. Thesis: Fully coupled elasto-plastic computational framework for fluid pressurised crack evolution in porous media.
	Dr Hussein Al-Sarri, PhD student at University of Nottingham. 10/2014 – 09/2018. Thesis: A new unified constitutive model for natural clay and sand.
	Dr Meghdad Bagheri, PhD student at University of Nottingham. 02/2014 – 05/2018. Experimental Investigation of the Time- and Rate-dependent Behaviour of Unsaturated Clays.
	Dr Hossein Zanganeh, Postdoc at University of Nottingham. 09/2015 – 07/2018. Project: SLOPES, Smarter Lignite Open Pit Engineering Solutions.
	Dr Elisa Poleti, Postdoc at University of Nottingham 03/2014 – 05/2015. Modelling visco-plasticity of natural soft soils.
	Dr Dan Ma, PhD student at University of Nottingham. 03/2014 – 05/2015. Modelling water and sand flow in fractured underground rock openings (Joint with China University of Mining & Technology).