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Dr.-Ing. Mohammad Salimi

Room: IC 5 / 121
Phone: +49 (0)234 32-26139
Email: mohammad.salimi@rub.de
Researcher, Project leader
ResearchGate-Profil
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  • seit 2023 Post doctoral researcher at  Lehrstuhl für Bodenmechanik, Grundbau und Umweltgeotechnik (Prof. Torsten Wichtmann), Ruhr-Universität Bochum
  • 2020: PhD degree, Shiraz University of Technology
  • 2019 - 2021: VP of Engineering, Gozargahaye Shargh consulting engineering, Iran
  • 2015 - 2019: Senior manager, Gozargahaye Shargh consulting engineering, Iran
  • 2013 - 2015 Manager of Geotechnical and Surveying investigations, Gozargahaye Shargh consulting engineering, Iran
  • 2012: Master’s degree, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (NIT)
  • 2011 - 2013: Road and Highway Designer, Gozargahaye Shargh consulting engineering, Iran
  • 2009: Bachelor’s degree, Ferdowsi university of Mashhad
  • 2025: Invited Talk, Subsurface Modeling and Engineering Seminar, Ruhr-universität Bochum, presented advances in DEM for sustainable geotechnics
  • 2025: Junior Group Prize for Outstanding Funding Acquisition, Ruhr-Uni Bochum, awarded for securing competetive research grants
  • 2024: Delivered Theme lecture, IS-Grenoble 2024 - Geomechanics from Micro to Macro, a leading international symposium on geomechanics.
  • 2024: Germany Representative, COST Action ON-DEM Management Commitee, European research network on DEM2025:
  • Discrete Element Method (DEM)
  • Multiscale Modeling
  • Instability
  • Granular flow
  • Material point method (MPM)
  • Numerical Simulations in Geotechnics and Tunneling (M.Sc.)
  • Introduction to Advanced Numerical Methods for Particulate Media (M.Sc.)
  • design of Geotechnical Structures (M.Sc.)
  • P. Moradi (MA, 2025): DEM-CFD Simulation of Collapse in Granular Materials
  • D. Arcos Carrion (MA, 2025): Superquadric Particle Shapes’ Impact on Failure Loci Using SudoDEM
  • J. Solarte Martinez (MA, 2025): Sand Behavior Under Cyclic Shear: Experimental and DEM Studies
  • S. Nuray (MA, 2024): DEM Calibration of Karlsruhe Fine Sand: Effects of Particle Shape and Contact Model Using LIGGHTS