Kamelia Atefi-Monfared

Bio

Kamelia Atefi is an Associate Professor in the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University. She completed her Masters, Doctoral, and Postdoctoral studies in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Prior to joining York University in Aug 2020, she was an Assistant Professor in the Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering Department at the University at Buffalo, NY, since 2016. K. Atefi is a registered professional engineer in Ontario, an Editorial Board Member of the Canadian Geotechnical Journal, a member of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) for Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code, and the secretary of the Technical Committee TC308 on Energy Geotechnics of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE).

K. Atefi has over 16 years of research experience in computational geomechanics aimed at design of environmentally friendly operations for production or storage of energy and water, and design of resilient infrastructure against climate change. Her current research is centered on geomechanics of coupled processes (biochemical-hydraulic-mechanical-thermal-dynamics) in porous media aimed at development of: eco-friendly bio-mediated techniques to stabilize ground and mine tailings, energy and water production/storage operations (e.g., hydrocarbon, geothermal, aquifer storage recovery), and tunneling in extreme geological settings.
She obtained multiple competitive grants as PI, including NSERC Discovery and the New Frontiers Research Fund (NFRF) Exploration. She received the TUST Best Paper Award 2023 from the Tunneling and Underground Space Technology (TUST) journal.