Farrokh Nadim

Dr. Farrokh Nadim is the director of the Centre of Excellence, the "International Centre for Geohazards", at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute. He has a BSc in structural engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran and his MSc and PhD degrees in civil engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His major fields of work are related to landslides and geohazards, risk and reliability analysis, geotechnical earthquake engineering, behaviour of geotechnical structures under cyclic and dynamic loading, and offshore foundation engineering. He is author or co-author of over 70 scientific publications and Chairman of Technical Committee 32 of ISSMGE: "Engineering practice of risk assessment and management".