Staff

The Staff

Associate Professor Michael Griffith, PhD (Berkeley), MSc, BSc (Washington State) MIE Aust, CP Eng, has nearly 20 years research experience in the area of earthquake resistant design and analysis of structures, beginning with his PhD research at the University of California at Berkeley. During this time he has published over 100 refereed papers in this area and attracted over $1.6 million dollars in competitive research funding in Australia.

Dr Mohamed Ali, PhD(Adelaide), MEngg(Structures), BEngg(Civil) has 14 years experience in industrial R&D and consultancy in Bridge and Highway Engineering. Presently works as a Senior Research Associate in Structural Engineering and his research interest includes developing generic structural mechanics based models for reinforced concrete structures, high performance concrete and the application of advanced composite materials (FRP) for retrofitting concrete and steel structures. Published about 25 journal papers in prestigious international journals and supervised one PhD and few ME thesis students for Delhi University and presently co- supervising 4 PhD students.

Professor Deric Oehlers, PhD, MSc, MICE, MIE Aust, has 7 years industrial experience in consultancy and contracting in the design and construction of multi-storey reinforced concrete structures and composite steel and concrete bridges in England and the West Indies. This was followed by 7 years of research at Warwick University in England on the behaviour of composite steel and concrete beams, then 7 years research and lecturing at University College Cork in Eire, after which he moved to Adelaide University in 1988.

Dr Togay Obakkaloglu, PhD, BSc, has nearly 10 years of research experience in the area of earthquake resistant design of reinforced concrete structures, beginning with his PhD research at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research focuses mainly on the behaviour and design of confined high and ultra-high strength concrete columns.

Dr Hamid Sheikh, PhD (IIT, Kharagpur), ME, BE, MIE India, has nearly 15 years research experience in the area of computational Structural Mechanics and Engineering, beginning with his PhD research. During this time he has handled a number of research projects, supervised 8 PhD students and published around 120 refereed papers in this area where most of them are appeared in archival journals.

Dr Craig Willis, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide. Dr Willis received his PhD in Structural Engineering in 2004 with his thesis entitled ‘Design of Unreinforced Masonry Walls for Out-of-plane Loading’ after obtaining his B.Eng. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering with 1st class honours at the University of Adelaide. His research interests include out-of-plane bending behaviour of masonry and retrofit of masonry using FRP strips. Dr Willis has also spent one year working as an engineering consultant with Connell Wagner.

Dr Chengqing Wu, PhD, MEng, BE, has spent more than ten years of research work on explosion-induced vibrations, structural response to explosive loads and mitigation of blast effects on structures, beginning with his PhD research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 1998. From 1998 to 2003, he worked on rock blasting and underground explosions as well as structural response under blast-induced ground vibrations. Recently Dr Wu’s research at University of Adelaide focuses on the development of new technologies to improve the blast resistance of both new and existing structures. So far he is author or co-authors of about 80 referred international journal papers and conference papers.