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Overview

  • An Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
    Teach and Research in different areas of Geotechnical Engineering and Geomechanics with focus on unsaturated soil mechanics and geotechnical earthquake engineering.

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  • Collaborative Research: Hybrid Flow-Sediment-Structure Interaction Analysis of Extreme Scour due to Coastal Flooding  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2022 - 2024
  • Flooded Pavement Assessment App - Phase II  awarded by Minnesota Dept of Transportation 2021 - 2024
  • Soil Moisture and Earthquakes: Integrating Satellite Soil Moisture Data with Seismic Records  awarded by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 2020 - 2023
  • EAGER: SAI-E: Collaborative Research: Behavior Theories for Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure - A New Paradigm in Performance Assessment and Modeling  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2021 - 2023
  • Permeability Evolution and Mechanical Response pf Propped Fractured Rocks with Multi-Phase Fluid  awarded by American Chemical Society 2021 - 2023
  • Collaborative Research: NNA Track 2: Seismic Resilience and Adaptation of Arctic Infrastructure and Social Systems amid Changing Climate  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2020 - 2022
  • Mechanistic Load Restriction Decision Platform for Pavement Systems Prone to Moisture Variations  awarded by Minnesota Dept of Transportation 2019 - 2021
  • Seismic Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction in Unsaturated Soils  awarded by Disaster Prevention Research Institute - Kyoto University 2019 - 2021
  • Support IIE-GIRE Awardee  awarded by Global E3 2019 - 2020
  • Long Distance Network Facilitation Seed Grant  awarded by Syracuse University 2017 - 2018
  • Seismic Site Response Analysis Considering Partially Saturated Soil Conditions  awarded by National Science Foundation (NSF) 2013 - 2016
  • Geotechnical Centrifuge  awarded by University of Southern California 2012 -

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    Other Research Activities

    Teaching Activities

  • Engineering Behavior of Soils Taught course
  • Intro to Geotec Earthquake Eng Taught course
  • Soil Mechanics Taught course
  • Soil Mechanics Taught course
  • Soil-Structure-Interaction Taught course 2024
  • Geotechnical Modeling Taught course 2023
  • Soil Mechanics Taught course 2023
  • Soil Mechanics Taught course 2023
  • Intro to Geotec Earthquake Eng Taught course 2022
  • Soil-Structure-Interaction Taught course 2022
  • Intro to Geotec Earthquake Eng Taught course 2022
  • Soil Mechanics Taught course 2022
  • Soil Mechanics Taught course 2022
  • Geotechnical Modeling Taught course 2021
  • Engineering Behavior of Soils Taught course 2021
  • Soil Mechanics Taught course 2021
  • Soil Mechanics Taught course 2021
  • Soil-Structure-Interaction Taught course 2020
  • Foundation Design I Taught course 2019
  • Foundation Design I Taught course 2019
  • Geotechnical Modeling Taught course 2019
  • Soil-Structure-Ineraction Taught course 2018
  • Engineering Behavior of Soils Taught course 2018
  • Soil Mechanics Taught course 2018
  • Soil Mechanics Taught course 2018
  • Foundation Design I Taught course 2017
  • Foundation Design I Taught course 2017
  • Intro to Geotec Earthquake Eng Taught course 2017
  • Foundation Design I Taught course 2016
  • Soil-Structure-Ineraction Taught course 2016
  • Intro to Geotec Earthquake Eng Taught course 2016
  • Project Planning and Design Taught course 2016
  • Foundation Design I Taught course 2015
  • Geotechnical Modeling Taught course 2015
  • Geotechnical Modeling Taught course 2015
  • Engineering Behavior of Soils Taught course 2015
  • Project Planning and Design Taught course 2015
  • Foundation Design I Taught course 2014
  • Soil-Structure-Ineraction Taught course 2014
  • Geotechnical Modeling Taught course 2014
  • Project Planning and Design Taught course 2014
  • Senior Honors Thesis Taught course 2014

    • Education And Training

  • B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Tehran
  • M.S. Civil Engineering, Sharif University
  • Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder

    • Full Name

  • Majid Ghayoomi

    • Mailing Address

  • University of New Hampshire

    Civil and Environmental Engineering

    W175 Kingsbury Hall 33 Academic Way

    Durham, NH - New Hampshire  03824

    United States