Amin Askarinejad is assistant professor of experimental soil mechanics at Delft University of Technology. His research interests include slope stability analysis, unsaturated soil mechanics, soil atmosphere interactions, physical modelling, geotechnical site investigation, field monitoring and laboratory testing. He conducted his doctoral project on the failure mechanisms of landslides due to hydraulic perturbations at the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland where he also did a postdoctoral research afterwards. His main interest was on the geotechnical, geological, hydrogeological, and biological interacting processes affecting the responses of slopes using tools from geotechnical engineering, geophysics and remote sensing. To that goal, he has performed field experiments including full scale landslide triggering (film), laboratory testing, physical modelling using geotechnical centrifuge, analytical modelling and HM coupled numerical simulations. Enthusiastic PhD candidates, MSc and BSc students, as well as other collaborators are always welcome to join in research.

• Static liquefaction of submarine slopes
• Physical modelling (full scale and centrifuge testing) of failure mechanisms of geotechnical structures
• Hydro-mechanical testing of soil elements under saturated and unsaturated conditions
• Image analysis (Particle Image Velocimetry)

• Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering, 
• Site Characterisation, Testing and Physical Modelling,
• Coupled Processes in Subsurface 
• Offshore geotechnical engineering

Amin is currently supervising three PhD candidates:

•  Arash Maghsoudloo: Role of scour protection on prevention of static liquefaction induced flow slides
• Weiyuan Zhang: Behaviour of buried pipelines subjected to submarine landslides
• Qiang Li: Response of offshore mono-piles under combined loading

• Triggering Rapid Mass Movements (TRAMM), (Swiss national project)
• SafeLand: Living with landslide risk in Europe: Assessment, effects of global change and risk management strategies (FP7-EC project)
• Impact of climate change on engineered slopes for infrastructure (COST) Action TU1202 (Horizon 2020-EC Project)
• Seasonal slope response in an Alpine debris flow catchment (Swiss National Science Foundation)
• Sustainable Use of Soil as a Resource (National Research Programme of Switzerland, NRP68),
• Reliable Dykes: Reliability-Based Geomechanical Assessment Tools for Dykes and Embankments in Delta Areas (STW: Dutch Technology Foundation)
• MAGIC: Monitoring Systems to Assess Geotechnical Infrastructure Subjected to Climatic Hazards (FP7-EC project)

Reviewer for:

• Géotechnique
• Géotechnique Letters
• International Journal of Physical modelling
• Acta Geotechnica
• Journal of Mountain Science
• Ecological Engineering
• Landslides

• Editorial board of International Journal of Physical modelling in Geotechnics
• Member of ISSMGE Technical committee TC 104 Physical Modelling