Biography
Aiyoub Abbaspour is a research associate in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure at George Mason University with more than 8 years of experience in academic research. His expertise includes areas of geoenvironmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, geochemistry of recycled material, groundwater hydraulics, and hydraulic structures. At George Mason, he is involved with multiple research projects including the field phase of the research on the use of RCA as base course/subbase layer, the resiliency of geosynthetics in contact with recycled waste, and new design technologies for MSE walls constructed using RCA. Prior to joining academia, he worked as a consultant for more than 8 years in the U.S. as a geotechnical engineer and abroad as a hydraulic structures engineer.