Keynote SpeakerS
Abbas Taheri | Queen's University, Canada
Abbas Taheri is a Tenured Associate
Professor at the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining at Queen’s
University in Kingston, Canada, where he holds the Chair in Mine
Design.
Abbas has over 20 years of industry, research, and teaching
experience in geotechnical engineering, rock mechanics, and mining
engineering. In 1999 he earned a BASc in Mining Engineering and in
2002 an MASc in Rock Mechanics from Amir Kabir University of
Technology, Iran. He worked for over four years in the industry in
civil and mining engineering projects before moving to Japan in 2005
to a PhD in geotechnical engineering at Yokohama National
University. His PhD thesis has been internationally acknowledged as
outstanding research work and has been awarded a runner-up
certificate (Proxime Accessit) of "ISRM Rocha Medal 2010" from the
International Society for Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
(ISRM). In 2008 he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Japan
Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and joined Tokyo
University of Science. In 2011 he was appointed as a lecturer and
then a senior lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Australia,
until 2021, when he moved to Queen’s University, Canada, as an
Associate Professor.
Abbas is the president of the Commission on Deep Mining of the ISRM.
Dr Taheri is/was a member of the Editorial Board of several
scientific journals, including “Soils and Foundations”, “Bulletin of
Engineering Geology and Environment”, “International Journal of
Mining Science and Technology,” “Minerals” etc. Abbas is/was the
chair, organizer, and member of the organization committee of many
international symposiums and workshops. He has produced more than
160 refereed publications. Dr Taheri has developed and toughed
several courses in geotechnical engineering and mining operation.
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