Sanjay Kumar Shukla

Biography

Sanjay is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and the Program Leader of the Discipline of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the School of Engineering. Dr Sanjay Kumar Shukla is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Engineering (Springer International Publishing, Switzerland). He is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Program Leader of the Discipline of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Perth, Australia. He graduated in 1988 with a first-class degree with distinction in Civil Engineering from BIT Sindri (Ranchi University, Ranchi), India. He earned his MTech in Civil Engineering (Engineering Geology) in 1992 and PhD in Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering) in 1995 from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. Dr Shukla has held a visiting appointment at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, James Cook University, Australia from April 2008 to October 2008, where he taught Geosynthetic Engineering and Rock Mechanics, and he has been an Adjunct Associate Professor there during 2008 to 2011. He has also held visiting appointments at the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong during 2002 to 2005. Prior to joining Edith Cowan University in April 2009, he has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology BHU, Varanasi, India. He has been the Foreign Faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, India for delivering expert lectures on ‘Fundamentals of Geosynthetic Engineering’ in July 2016, and also on “Geotechnical Structures with Geosynthetics, Reinforcement and Confinement” at Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India during September - October 2016. He collaborates with several world-class universities, research institutions, industries and individuals on academic and field projects. As a Consulting Geotechnical Engineer, he has successfully provided solutions to the challenging field problems faced by many engineering organizations.

Research Interest

Geosynthetics and their Applications, Soil-Structure Interaction, Static and Dynamic Earth Pressures, Soil Arching and Buried Structures, Ground Improvement Methods, Rock Slope Stability and Mining Geotechnics, Pavement Geotechnics, Environmental Geotechnics.