Senior Lecturer
Dr Maryam Ghodrat
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wale, UNSW Sydney (2014)
- Master of Engineering ,University of New South Wale, UNSW Sydney (2010)
UNSW Canberra
School of Eng & Tech
I am a Senior Lecturer and researcher at School of Engineering and Technology, UNSW Canberra.
I work on climate-resilient building design including design for extreme environment. My research is interdisciplinary and broadly centered on development of robust, scalable, and adaptive solution techniques for assessing vulnerability and resilience of infrastructure to natural and man-made disasters.
In my research on creating strong and safe communities, I investigate several important topics, including:
- Adaptation and transformation of infrastructure to natural and man-made disasters
- Structures heat exposure characteristics at wildland Urban Interface
- Climate resilience urban planning and wildfire modeling
- Fire Testing of Resilient and Sustainable Building Materials
- Fire Testing of Emergent Energy Generation and Distribution Systems
- Fire Suppression Systems in the Context of Climate Change
- Digitalized Firefighting and Evacuation
- Identifying Building Weaknesses During Bushfires: I focus on finding out what makes buildings vulnerable to bushfires, and how we can make them safer
I established “Pyrometric Lab” at UNSW with several dedicated flame behaviour testing equipment to unravel the fundamental behaviour of materials exposed to direct and indirect flame and radiative heat transfer. I have also designed and built a modular subsonic combustion wind tunnel for convective heat flow measurement and visualisation at UNSW.
My teams' numerical modeling endeavor is to pursue applied research to advance the state of the art in physics-based simulation on high-performance computing platforms, and to maintain state-of-the-art computational capabilities that can readily be applied to engineering problems of interest in our areas of focus.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- Resilient built environment
- Adaptation and transformation of infrastructure to natural and man-made disasters
- Climate resilience urban planning and wildfire modeling
- Dynamics of wildland fires and their impact on structures
- Structures heat exposure characteristics at wildland Urban Interface
- Fire resistance building materials
- Flammability tests for regulation of building and construction materials
- Urban planning and fire evacuation
My Research Supervision
Current PhDs:
- Mojtaba Ajorloo (Main supervisor)
- AmirHossein Sabouri (Main supervisor)
- Osman Eissa (Main supervisor)
- Ali Edalati (Joint supervisor)
- Mohamad Sadeghi (Joint supervisor)
- Dinelka Somaweera (Joint Supervisor)
Post Doctoral research fellow:
- Dr Anan Du
Honour thesis:
- Matthew Hordern
- Jonathan Lu
- Philip L. Davies
HDR completions (as main supervisor):
- Juan Alonso
- Alvaro Alvarez
- Nirosh Nuwan Nammuni
- Olaoluwa Daniel Dawodu
Accepting PhD students.
PhD positions are available for highly motivated candidate in mechanical engineering . Knowledge and experience in working with OpenFOAM is highly desirable.
Ideal candidates should have:
- A four-year Bachelor's and two-year MSc degrees with high WAMs (minimum of 87%) and research experience from top institutions in the field of Mechanical engineering
- A track record of publications in top-ranked scholarly journals and presentations in peer-reviewed conferences; and,
- Good interpersonal, communication, presentation and writing skills in English.
If you are interested in doing a PhD in my group , please send a copy of PDF combining your CV, Transcripts and English Test Results to m.ghodrat@unsw.edu.au
My Teaching
I have taught in more than 12 undergraduate and graduate courses, including my current teaching : "Heat transfer and Refrigeration", "Mechanical and Electrical plants ", "Mechanical and Electronic Design" and "Introduction to Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering" at UNSW Canberra
and
veriary of UG and PG courses in my previous roles such as "Environmental monitoring" , "Sustainability and Risk Engineering" , "Sustainable Materials Processing", "Design and Application of Materials in Science and Engineering" , "Advanced waste management" , "Mechanical design" , " Engineering Materials" , "Advanced Thermodynamics", "Structural analysis and design".