Pūhanga Metarahi me te Rawa Taiao | Civil & Natural Resources Engineering
69 Creyke Road
University of Canterbury
Christchurch
New Zealand
Phone: +64 3 369 3113
Fax: +64 3 364 2758
Email: civilenquiries@canterbury.ac.nz
Academic staff
Aisling O'Sullivan
Associate Professor
Fields of Research:
- Clean Water Treatment Technologies
- Water Quality Monitoring and Modelling
- Life Cycle ...
- Water Quality Monitoring and Modelling
- Life Cycle ...
Alessandro Palermo
Professor
Postgraduate Research Director
Fields of Research:
- Bridge Engineering
- Seismic resistant low-damage technologies
- Post-tensioned timber ...
- Seismic resistant low-damage technologies
- Post-tensioned timber ...
Allan Scott
Associate Professor
Fields of Research:
- Durability of reinforced concrete structures
- Concrete materials
- Corrosion of metals
- Concrete materials
- Corrosion of metals
Andres Valencia
Lecturer
Fields of Research:
- Fire engineering
- Fire dynamics
- Wildfires
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Sprinkler ...
- Fire dynamics
- Wildfires
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Sprinkler ...
Anthony Abu
Associate Professor
FENZ Structural Fire Engineering; Director of Studies (Fire)
Fields of Research:
- Design of structures in fire conditions
- Design of steel, composite steel and concrete ...
- Design of steel, composite steel and concrete ...
Brendon Bradley
Director of QuakeCoRE
On Sabbatical April-Sept 2021
Fields of Research:
- Seismic hazard analysis and ground motion prediction
- Seismic risk and loss analysis and ...
- Seismic risk and loss analysis and ...
Brian Guo
Senior Lecturer
Construction Management Director of Studies
Fields of Research:
- Smart construction site
- Construction health and safety
- Building performance design and ...
- Construction health and safety
- Building performance design and ...
Charles Fleischmann
Professor
Fields of Research:
- Compartment fire modelling
- Fire dynamics
- Fire engineering
- Fire dynamics
- Fire engineering
Chin-Long Lee
Senior Lecturer
Fields of Research:
- Earthquake Engineering
- Nonlinear Structural Analysis
- Structural Dynamics and ...
- Nonlinear Structural Analysis
- Structural Dynamics and ...
Christopher McGann
Senior Lecturer
Director of Studies, Undergraduate
Fields of Research:
- Structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering
- Constitutive modeling
- Numerical ...
- Constitutive modeling
- Numerical ...
Craig McConnochie
Lecturer
Fields of Research:
- Environmental fluid dynamics
- Turbulent plumes
- Natural ventilation
- Convection
- Climate ...
- Turbulent plumes
- Natural ventilation
- Convection
- Climate ...
Daniel Nilsson
Professor
Head of Department
Fields of Research:
- Human Behaviour in Fire
- Emergency Evacuation
- Way-finding Systems
- Emergency Notification ...
- Emergency Evacuation
- Way-finding Systems
- Emergency Notification ...
Daniel van der Walt
Lecturer
Fields of Research:
- Procurement
- Asset Management
- Pavement Engineering
- Network Data
- Construction
- Productivity
- Asset Management
- Pavement Engineering
- Network Data
- Construction
- Productivity
David Dempsey
Senior Lecturer
Fields of Research:
- Volcano eruption forecasting
- Magma hydrothermal systems
- Geothermal fields
- Induced ...
- Magma hydrothermal systems
- Geothermal fields
- Induced ...
Dennis Pau
Lecturer
Fire Engineering
Fields of Research:
- Pyrolysis and oxidative thermal decomposition of combustibles
- Prediction of fire spread ...
- Prediction of fire spread ...
Derek Li
Lecturer
Fields of Research:
- non-destructive testing
- Smart water systems
- energy harvesting
- renewable energy
- acosutic ...
- Smart water systems
- energy harvesting
- renewable energy
- acosutic ...
Eric Scheepbouwer
Associate Professor
Fields of Research:
- Construction
- Project Management
- Cost Engineering
- Risk Management
- Project Management
- Cost Engineering
- Risk Management
Frances Charters
Senior Lecturer
Parental leave 2021
Fields of Research:
- Stormwater quality characterisation
- Stormwater quality modelling
- Stormwater treatment
- Stormwater quality modelling
- Stormwater treatment
Gabriele Chiaro
Associate Professor
On Sabbatical July 2021-Jan 2022
Fields of Research:
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Environmental Geotechnics
- Constitutive Modeling for ...
- Environmental Geotechnics
- Constitutive Modeling for ...
Giuseppe Loporcaro
Lecturer
Architectural Engineering
Fields of Research:
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) and parametric design
- Low-cycle fatigue of ...
- Low-cycle fatigue of ...
Gregory MacRae
Professor
Fields of Research:
- Steel structure design
- Earthquake engineering
- Structural dynamics
- Low damage ...
- Earthquake engineering
- Structural dynamics
- Low damage ...
Ian Mason
Research Fellow in Energy Engineering and Carbon Management
Director, Renewable Energy Programme
Fields of Research:
- Sustainable energy systems
- Energy systems modelling
- Carbon management
- Energy systems modelling
- Carbon management
Jannik Haas
Senior Lecturer
Fields of Research:
- Sustainable civil systems
- Future energy systems
- Circular economy
- Smart districts
- Resilient ...
- Future energy systems
- Circular economy
- Smart districts
- Resilient ...
Larry Bellamy
Ada Rutherford Professor of Architectural Engineering
Fields of Research:
- Building energy engineering
- Sustainable building materials and design
- Building envelopes ...
- Sustainable building materials and design
- Building envelopes ...
Mark Milke
Professor
Fields of Research:
- Solid waste (rubbish) management
- Environmental engineering
- Systems, decision, and risk ...
- Environmental engineering
- Systems, decision, and risk ...
Mark Stringer
Senior Lecturer
1st Pro Director
Fields of Research:
- Liquefaction
- Undisturbed soil sampling
- New Zealand soils
- Undisturbed soil sampling
- New Zealand soils
Markus Pahlow
Senior Lecturer
2nd Pro Co-ordinator
Fields of Research:
- Engineering Hydrology
- Water Resources Management
- Sustainable Development
- Water Resources Management
- Sustainable Development
Matthew Dudzik
Architect in Residence
Research Interests:
In addition to being Architect in Residence at UC's Department of Civil & Natural Resources Engineering, I am the Creative Director of DUDZIK ...
Matthew Hughes
Senior Lecturer
Humanitarian Engineering (Co-director)
Fields of Research:
- Disaster risk and resilience
- Disaster impacts on ecosystems, infrastructure systems and ...
- Disaster impacts on ecosystems, infrastructure systems and ...
Mehdi Keyvan-Ekbatani
Senior Lecturer
Fields of Research:
- Urban and Motorway Traffic Flow Modelling and Control
- Traffic state estimation
- Automated ...
- Traffic state estimation
- Automated ...
Minghao Li
Associate Professor
On Sabbatical July-Dec 2021
Fields of Research:
- Structural timber engineering
- Earthquake engineering
- Low-damage timber ...
- Earthquake engineering
- Low-damage timber ...
Misko Cubrinovski
Professor
Fields of Research:
- Geotechnical earthquake engineering
- Soil liquefaction: evaluation and remediation
- Seismic ...
- Soil liquefaction: evaluation and remediation
- Seismic ...
Mofreh Saleh
Professor
On Sabbatical 2021
Fields of Research:
- Asphaltic concrete materials
- Finite elements modelling for pavement materials
- Pavement ...
- Finite elements modelling for pavement materials
- Pavement ...
Pedro Lee
Professor
On Sabbatical 2021
Fields of Research:
- Flow hydraulics of open compound channels
- System control theory for fault detection in ...
- System control theory for fault detection in ...
Rajesh Dhakal
Professor
Deputy Head of Department
Fields of Research:
- Seismic performance of non-structural elements (SPONSE)
- Low-damage building ...
- Low-damage building ...
Reagan Chandramohan
Senior Lecturer
Fields of Research:
- Seismic Hazard, Risk, and Reliability Assessment
- Performance-Based Earthquake ...
- Performance-Based Earthquake ...
Rebecca Peer
Lecturer
Civil Systems Engineering
Fields of Research:
- Sustainability
- Energy systems
- Water systems
- Climate change
- Data science
- Energy systems
- Water systems
- Climate change
- Data science
Ricardo Bello-Mendoza
Senior Lecturer
Humanitarian Engineering (Co-director)
Fields of Research:
- Anaerobic processes for wastewater treatment and bioenergy production
- Degradation of water ...
- Degradation of water ...
Robin Lee
Lecturer
Fields of Research:
- Earthquake engineering
- Earthquake ground motions
- Numerical simulations
- Earthquake ground motions
- Numerical simulations
Roger Dawe
Surveying Part-time lecturer
Santiago Pujol
Professor
Research Interests:
Santiago Pujol is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Canterbury. Prior to moving to New Zealand, he was Professor of Civil ...
Simone Larcher
Lecturer
2nd Pro Co-ordinator
Fields of Research:
- Removal of emerging contaminants and endocrine disrupting compounds
- Low-impact wastewater ...
- Low-impact wastewater ...
Tim Sullivan
Professor
Fields of Research:
- Seismic Design and Assessment
- Displacement-based design
- Seismic Performance of ...
- Displacement-based design
- Seismic Performance of ...
Tom Cochrane
Professor
On sabbatical June-Dec 2021
Fields of Research:
- Hydrology
- Hydropower
- Water resources modelling
- Sediment transport and ...
- Hydropower
- Water resources modelling
- Sediment transport and ...
Tom Logan
Lecturer
Civil Systems Engineering
Fields of Research:
- Climate adaptation
- Risk science
- Urban planning
- Natural hazards
- Infrastructure ...
- Risk science
- Urban planning
- Natural hazards
- Infrastructure ...
Tonny de Vries
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
Irrigation engineering, climate change, water resources engineering, agriculture
Administration and Support staff
Elizabeth Ackermann
Senior Department Administrator
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E423
Phone: +6433694116
Internal Phone: 94116
Jennifer Clayton-Smith
Postgraduate Administrator
Civil/Mechanical L4 Rm E426
Phone: +6433693398
Internal Phone: 93398
Olive Dalton
Systems Manager
Room: E212C, Civil/Mech Building
Internal Phone: 93153
Catherine O'Shaughnessy
Undergraduate Administrator
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E424
Phone: +6433695880
Internal Phone: 95880
Paul Strange
Specialist System Support
Civil and Natural Resources Engineering, E212D
Phone: +64 3 3693157
Internal Phone: 93157
Tutors
Postdoctoral Fellows and Researchers
Chris de la Torre
Post Doctoral Fellow
Area of Research: Geotechnical earthquake engineering and seismic ground response analysis
Claudio Cappellaro
Postdoctoral Fellow
Area of Research: Geotechnical Engineering
Internal Phone: 91306
Clemence Vannier
Postdoctoral Fellow
Area of Research: Agriculture, environment
Internal Phone: 90349
Giovanni De Francesco
Research Engineer
Area of Research: Earthquake and structural engineering
Internal Phone: 90899
Mehrnoush (Maya) Tangestani
Postdoctoral Fellow
Area of Research: Biofabrication of sustainable filters using 3D printing for development of new technology for wastewater treatment
Internal Phone: 91528
PhD Students
Abhirup Basu Roy Chowdhury
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Modelling and Characterisation of Permanent Deformation for Asphalt Concrete Pavements Utilising Modified Wheel Tracker
Amandine Bosserelle
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Sea-revel rise, groundwater dynamics and impacts on infrastructure systems.
Ana Isabel Sarkis Fernandez
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Seismic Assessment and Improvement of Precast Pre-stressed Hollow-core Concrete Floors
Anh Nguyen
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Multi-purpose Reservoir Operation Management Using Evolutionary Optimization Under Uncertainty in Water Demand and Supply
Ben Matthews
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Assessment of Aging Infrastructures in High Seismic Areas Using Computational Intelligence Techniques
Bryann Avendano
PhD Candidate
Research Title: The use of Participatory Modelling to integrate social and infrastructure resilience building
Cong Tran
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Optimal Deployment of Charging Infrastructures for Urban Networks
Connor Cleary
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Stochastic modelling of nitrate transport in groundwater, under highly heterogenous conditions
Fransiscus Arifin
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Seismic Performance: Assessment and Improvement of Glazing and Windows
Hongyu Guo
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Studying Lane Change Behaviour Using Real-world Connected Vehicle Data
Hossein Soleimankhani
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Accounting for building torsional behaviour during strong earthquake shaking
Jian Cui
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Seismic Performance of Buckling Restrained Braced Frames Subjected to Combined In-Plane and Out-of-plane Loading
Jonathon MacIntyre
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Defining Equivalent Fire Severity for Structural Applications
Justin Brown
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Seismic Performance of Flanged Timber Core-Wall Systems and Critical Connections
Kate Melnik
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Experimental Investigation of New Zealand Vegetation Flammability in Rural-Urban Interface Locations
Kevin Foster
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Computational and Statistical Strategies for Estimating Vs30
Kiran Rangwani
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Implementation of Tension-Only (GripNGrab) Friction Devices in Steel Rocking Seismic Frames
Madeline Frances Furness
Research Title: The Biofactory: Designing a Decision Making Tool for Promoting Resource Recovery in Wastewater Treatment Plants
Mansour Johari Foroshani
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Traffic dynamics in large-scale urban networks: modelling and estimation
Milap Dhakal
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Evaluation of methods of construction of Martian habitats using in-situ resources
Mitchell Anderson
PhD Candidate
Research Title: The co-benefits of urban amenity access: hauora, health and wellbeing, and resilience
Mohammad Eskandarighadi
PhD Candidate
Research Title: 2D-1D nonlinear site response modelling with consideration of soil heterogeneity
Rosie Pagel
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Improving Structural Resilience of Bridges under Tsunami Loading
Sabina Piras
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Development of Dissipative Controlled Rocking Bridge Columns on Monopile Foundations
Sabrina Sparano
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Tessellation of modular dynamic design, fabrication, and programming of a reconfigurable sustainable structure
Shaurya Sood
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Geotechnical characterization of air-fall tephras (or volcanic soils) for land reclamation purposes
Sky Halford
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Tracing indicators of mental health: The case of antidepressants in waste streams
Thomas Mason Wallace
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Understanding The Physical And Systemic Vulnerabilities In Integrated Stopbank-Dam Catchments
Thomas Wright
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Seismic Performance of High Capacity Screwed Connections in Mass Timber Buildings
Tirth Patel
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Digital Twin based automated progress monitoring of road construction
Tom Francis
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Seismic Isolation of Light-weight Buildings in New Zealand
Vishvendra (Jay) Bhanu
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Incorporating the influence of earthquake ground motion duration in structural design and assessment guidelines
Wenchen Dong
PhD Candidate
Research Title: Lateral Performance of Glulam Frames with Buckling Restrained Braces (BRBs)
Yu Li
PhD Candidate
Research Title: IoT Based Pavement Monitoring System and Application in New Zealand
Technical staff
Patrick Branje
Workshop Manager
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering 133a
Phone: +6433690094
Internal Phone: 90094
Phillippe Bruneau
Fluid Mechanics Lab Manager
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering 122
Phone: +6433692388
Internal Phone: 92388
Milap Dhakal
Concrete Engineering Research Laboratory Manager
Civil and Natural Resources Engineering
Phone: 03-369 9172
Internal Phone: 91712
Grant Dunlop
Fire Engineering Lab Technician
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering 101
Phone: +6433692257
Internal Phone: 92257
Siale Faitotonu
Technical Officer
Geomechanics laboratory Technician
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E112A
Phone: +6433692261
Internal Phone: 92261
Mosese Fifita
Technician - Structures Lab
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering 130
Phone: +6433692198
Internal Phone: 92198
Antonella Grassano
Structural Laboratory Engineering Manager
Phone: +6433690194
Internal Phone: 90194
John Kooloos
Technical Officer
Technician - Transportation laboratory
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E111A
Phone: +6433692259
Internal Phone: 92259
David MacPherson
Technical Services Manager
Environmental Engineering Lab / Dept Safety Officer
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering 121
Phone: +6433692114
Internal Phone: 92114
Peter McGuigan
Technician
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E337
Phone: +6433692084
Internal Phone: 92084
John Maley
Structural Engineering Laboratory Manager
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering 135
Phone: +6433692186
Internal Phone: 92186
Timothy Perigo
Structural Engineering Technician
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering 109
Phone: +6433692216
Internal Phone: 92216
Alan Poynter
Technical Officer
Technician - Model structures lab
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E117
Phone: +6433692418
Internal Phone: 92418
Aude Thierry
Environmental Laboratory & Field Support Technician
Phone: +6433690656
Internal Phone: 90656
Alan Thirlwell
Manager, Structural Engineering Laboratory
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering SEL
Phone: +6433692395
Internal Phone: 92395
Michael Weavers
Manager
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E118
Phone: +6433692193
Internal Phone: 92193
Kevin Wines
Machineshop Technician
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering 133A
Phone: +6433692381
Internal Phone: 92381
Adjunct, emeritus and retired staff
David Carradine
Structural Engineering, BRANZ
Postal address: BRANZ, Private Bag 50908, Porirua City 5240
Phone: +64 4 288 8408
David Wareham
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering Rm E414
Phone: +6433695017
Internal Phone: 95017
Ian Wood
Professor Emeritus
Roger Nokes
Professor Emeritus
Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E442
Phone: +6433692046
Internal Phone: 92046
Professional Advisory Board
Our department is guided by our industry advisory board. Our board is composed of leaders in the Civil and Natural Resources Engineering profession and includes representatives from consulting, contracting and government.
Karen Boyt
Transportation Engineer
Independent consultant
Peter Christensen
Director
CTN Consulting Ltd.
Colin Crampton
Chief Executive
Wellington Water
Cathy Forrest
South Island Civil Infrastructure Leader
AECOM
Graeme Johnson
Chief Executive
Fulton Hogan
Amber Murphy
Environmental Engineer
Beca
Craig Price
Chief Technical Officer
Beca
