Education

Academic Degrees

· MS. Geotechnical Engineering, University of Guilan, 2011-2013

· B.Sc. Eng., Civil Engineering, Azad University, 2002-2006

Employment History

Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, Graduate Research Assistant, (GRA), 05/2024-present

Area of Research and Professional Interest

 · Granular Materials 

· Roadside Safety

 · Geomechanics

· Rockfill Materials

Publications and Presentations

Peer Reviewed (In print)

· Yosef, T. Y., Fang, C., Faller, R. K., Kim, S., Alomari, Q. A., Atash Bahar, M., & Kumar, G. S. (2025). A Review of Soil Constitutive Models for Simulating Dynamic Soil–Structure Interaction Processes Under Impact Loading. Geotechnics, 5(2), 40.

· AtashBahar, Mojtaba., Lasht e Neshaei, Mir Ahmad., Jamshidi Chenari, Reza. (2015, 7th September). "Evaluation of the Behavior of Rockfill Material Using Large-scale Triaxial Tests". 2nd International Conference on Geotechnical & Urban Earthquake Engineering, Tabriz, Iran.

Peer Reviewed (Submitted for review)

· Yosef, T. Y., Fang, C., Kim, S., Faller, R. K., Alomari, Q. A., & Atash Bahar, M. (2025). Large-deformation simulation methods for dynamic impact analysis of soil–structure interaction in soil-embedded barrier systems. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

· Yosef, T. Y., Faller, R. K., Alomari, Q. A., Schmidt, J. D., & Atash Bahar, M. (2025). Performance Evaluation of a Sustainable Glulam Timber Rubrail and Noise Wall System Under MASH TL-3 Crash Conditions. Infrastructures.

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, University of Applied Sciences and Technology, Rasht, Guilan, Iran 2017-2022

Honors and Awards

Best Instructor Award, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Applied Sciences and Technology, Rasht, Guilan, Iran. Fall 2020.

Certificates

· Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

· "Safety Training on fatigue among construction workers", OSHA

Seminar

· 42nd Annual Geotechnical Seminar GEO-Omaha 2025

Professional Experience

· Graduate Research Assistant at Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF)

· Professional Engineer, Iran

· EIT, California

· Geotechnical Engineer at Kavosh Azhand Consulting Engineering

· Head Manager, Geotechnical/Structure Engineer at Arang Engineering Office

· Controller of Geotechnical Experiments Construction Engineering Organization, Rasht, Iran (Part-time)

Professional Memberships 

• International Society for soil mechanic and geotechnical engineering (ISSMGE)

 • ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers 

• Deep Foundations Institute (DFI) 

• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) 

• Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI)

 • Construction Engineering Organization, Engineering Board of Iran (Professional Engineer)

Contact Information:

City Campus (Lincoln)

WHIT 330N 

matashbahar@unl.edu