About me:

Dr Khoi Nguyen completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of South Australia. The dissertation title is: ‘Critical state behaviour of granular materials and associated micro-mechanics: A DEM study’, which involves in both advanced laboratory testing regime and discrete element model (DEM) of granular materials. He has developed strong understanding and research capacity in geotechnical and earthquake engineering issues, and numerical modelling. After his PhD, he worked as research associate and teaching academic in different civil engineering disciplines, including soil mechanics, geotechnical and earthquake engineering. He is currently the course coordinator and lecturer in UniSA STEM.

Editorialship:

• Associate Editor in Geotechnical Research, ICE.

• Guest Editor in Frontiers in Build Environment. Research Topic "Recent Advances in Numerical Modelling for Soil and Soil-Structure Interactions".

• Guest Editor in Geosciences. Special Issue "Modern Advancements in the Evaluation of Soil Failure".

• Guest Editor in Geotechnics. Special Issue "Recent Advances in Geotechnical Engineering".

• Guest Editor in Sustainability. Special Issue "Sustainable Civil Engineering Structures and Construction Materials".

Research interests:

• Geotechnical engineering problems such as slope stability, foundation design, soil liquefaction

• Critical state theory of soil mechanics

• Micro-mechanics

• Numerical modeling such as DEM and FEM

• Constitutive model

• Soil-water interaction

• Soil-structure interaction

• Earthquake engineering