Alireza Rashiddel

About

Alireza Rashiddel completed his Master's in Mining Engineering - Tunnel and Underground Spaces on September 21, 2016, at Urmia University, as well as a Bachelor's in Mining Engineering -Exploitation on September 22, 2014, at the same university. He has received several awards and honors throughout his career. After achieving an overall average score of 17.29 out of 20, he was awarded the Best Student Prize for his bachelor's degree in 2014 at Urmia University, Iran. He ranked first among his 45 Bachelor classmates. Additionally, he achieved an overall average score of 18.16 out of 20 and was awarded the Best Student Prize for his master's degree in 2016 at Urmia University, Iran. He ranked first among his 5 Master classmates. He was appointed as a teaching assistant (TA) at Urmia University during his Bachelor's and Master's programs. He helped deliver several courses, including Geotechnique, Mechanics of Material, Mathematics 1 and 2, and Differential Equations for undergraduate students during his Bachelor's program (Urmia University, 2013-2014). As a teaching assistant (TA) during his Master's program, he taught a course on concrete and steel structures in Underground Spaces for postgraduate students (Urmia University, 2015-2016). After completing his master's degree, he started teaching specialized software for soil-structure interaction, including FLAC3D-2D and ABAQUS, in various Iranian institutions (civil808.com/faradars.org) and Urmia University (2016-2017). From 2017 to 2021, he worked as a research assistant (RA) at Urmia University and Imam Khomeini International University. He was selected as an advisor supervisor for 3 theses and conducted scientific work. The students whose theses he advised were Tohid Zare Zadeh, Reza Payandeh, and Asma Ramesh. From 2018 to 2020, he was awarded a fully funded research fellowship by the Iran National Elite Foundation to conduct military service as a researcher. His research focused on the propagation of shock waves inside soil masses and their impact on underground concrete structures at Urmia University. Between 2019 and 2022, he taught numerical simulations on soil-structure interaction to PhD students in Canada, Turkey, Australia, Iran, China and other countries using FLAC3D-2D models. In addition, he conducted several geotechnical numerical studies using software such as FLAC3D-2D, ABAQUS, SAP2000, ANSYS AUTODYN, and MIDAS GTS NX. As a result, he has published many articles in international journals and conferences, with 202 citations that include 11 international journal papers (ISI), 2 national journal papers, 15 international and national conference papers. From 2021 to 2022, he worked as a lecturer of geotechnical software at Urmia University, Civil808 and also as a rock mechanics engineer for a design office in the Angoran lead and zinc underground mine. From June 2022, to June 2023, he worked as a researcher at Universidade do Minho, conducting research on the European-funded project entitled "RoboShot@FRC: Robotic System for Optimized Projection of Fiber-Reinforced Concrete in Railway Tunnels." The output of this project, with 24 co-authors, was published in the prestigious tunneling journal named ''Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology''. From November 2023, to November 2024, he worked as researcher at the University of Minho, working on a FCT-funded project entitled "FemWebAI: Integrated methodology for designing sustainable construction systems in fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC) according to advanced and robust computational models." His latest article, published in March 2024 in the Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering journal, focuses on the seismic analysis of a 5-story building and a concrete segmental tunnel in liquefiable ground. It has been the most downloaded article for March, April, May, June, July, August, September, and October 2024 in ''Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering'' journal. He pursues one of his significant wishes: serving society through teaching and conducting research at R&D centers.