Associate Professor
College of Science and Engineering
Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani is an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the National Centre for Groundwater Research & Training, College of Science & Engineering, Flinders University. He has been Full Professor at the Water and Environmental Engineering section, Department of Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran since 2008. He had the positions of Assistant Professorship (2000-2004), and Associate Professorship (2004-2008), and had different executive and managerial positions at SUT. He was the Head of Civil Engineering Department between 2005 and 2007 and Head of Water and Environmental Engineering Section for 6 years. Behzad had also been working as a Senior Research Fellow at GeoDelft and the Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geoscience, Delft, The Netherlands for 3 years.
Behzad has worked on a wide range of exciting research problems concerning civil engineering. Most of the research involved numerical and experimental developments in managing surface and subsurface water resources quantity and quality. He has applied his expertise for engineering projects related to groundwater resources management, optimal management of freshwater lens in small islands, coastal aquifer dynamics, numerical and experimental study of impulsive waves due to landslides in lakes, and local scour development around at bridge piers hydraulic structures. Moreover, Behzad Ataie-Ashtiani has published several papers on research integrity including world-wide analyses of publication retraction rates.
Behzad was the guest editor for a Special Issue of Journal of Hydrology on “Improving model-data interaction in Hydrogeology: Insights from different disciplines” and a Thematic issue of Landslides on “Landslide Generated Tsunami Waves”. Behzad has successfully supervised more than fifty research students, including 9 PhD students.
News and Media
After revival, Iran’s great salt lake faces new peril, Science, 2021.
News and Media
After revival, Iran’s great salt lake faces new peril, Science, 2021.
Iranian peer-review incident condemned, Physics World., 2018.
A shady market in scientific papers mars Iran’s rise in science, Science, 2016.
Curbing Iran's academic misconduct, Science, 2016.
Editorial board
Journal of Hydrology (Special Issue: Improving model-data interaction in Hydrogeology: Insights from different disciplines)
Landslides (Thematic issue: Landslide Generated Tsunami Waves)
Iranian Water Resources Research
Technical reviewer
Advances in Water Resources
Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements
Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Environmental Modeling & Software
Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Hydrogeology Journal
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering ASCE
Journal of Hydrological Engineering ASCE
Journal of Hydrology
Journal of Vadose Zone
Transport in Porous Media
Water Resources Research
Iranian Water Resources Research
Iranian Hydraulics Journal