Graduate Student (PhD)

Contact Information:
Scott Campus (Omaha)
rbehdad2@huskers.unl.edu

Degree:
Ph.D. - CIVE

Specialization:
Geotechnical/Materials

Advisor:
Jongwan Eun



About Me:

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D. student, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Eng., UNL, USA.
  • M.Sc., Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Eng., 2020, University of Tehran, Iran.
  • B.Sc., Civil Eng., Iran University of Science & Technology (IUST), Iran.

Employment History

  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Graduate Research Assistant, Jan/2023-present.

Area of Research and Professional Interest

  • Geoenvironmental Engineering
  • Unsaturated Soil
  • Remediation of Contaminated Soil
  • Landfill Management
  • Climate Change Hazard
  • Laboratory Testing

Research Experience

  • Research project title, Sponsor, duration (mth/year-present or mth/year-mth/year)
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Teaching Experience

  • Teacher Assistant for Courses, Soil Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, and Solid Mechanics (2017-2019)

Publications and Presentations

  • Behdad, Moradi, Afshari.“The Effect of Soil-Cement Barriers in Containing the

LNAPL contaminants Transport in Unsaturated Soil: a Physical Modeling”, Soil &

Sediment Contamination: An International Journal, 2021, DOI:

10.1080/15320383.2021.2000364.

  • Behdad, Moradi, “Physical Modeling of the Voluminous Spill and Migration of LNAPL

Contaminants in Unsaturated Soil.”, 10th International Conference on Physical Modelling

in Geotechnics 2022, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, Sep. 2022