DoctorHamid Ahmadi

Dr Hamid Ahmadi is a Senior Lecturer in Maritime Engineering at the Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania (UTAS), and holds an adjunct academic appointment at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ). Before joining UTAS in 2024, he was a Senior Lecturer and Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow at UniSQ’s Centre for Future Materials. His previous appointments include Research Fellow at Griffith University and Associate Professor in Marine Structural Engineering at University of Tabriz.

With more than a decade of academic experience, Dr Ahmadi has coordinated and taught numerous undergraduate and postgraduate units in structural, offshore, coastal, and maritime engineering. His teaching has consistently attracted strong student evaluations, averaging 96 out of 100 over the past five years. He has received multiple nominations for Lecturer of the Year, winning the award in two consecutive years (2015 and 2016). His teaching philosophy emphasises integrating fundamental engineering principles with practical applications, contemporary research, and industry-relevant challenges.

Dr Ahmadi’s research focuses on the structural performance, reliability, resilience, and sustainability of offshore and coastal infrastructure. His expertise spans marine structural mechanics, fatigue and fracture mechanics, structural reliability, advanced numerical modelling, fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites, and sustainable infrastructure engineering. His research has progressively expanded from fundamental offshore structural engineering to advanced composite materials and their applications in maritime infrastructure.

He has established a strong record of leading multidisciplinary research and developing productive collaborations with government agencies, industry partners, and international universities. Notably, he secured and led a $620,000 Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship in collaboration with Maritime Safety Queensland and Wagners Composite Fibre Technologies, investigating corrosion-resistant composite materials for marine aids to navigation. He also led the numerical simulation team within a US$5.65 million US Department of Energy project on composite pipeline rehabilitation, collaborating with leading US universities and industry partners. His broader research portfolio includes FRP boat-ramp infrastructure, composite systems for offshore aquaculture, and sustainable composite rehabilitation of marine structures.

Dr Ahmadi has authored 124 peer-reviewed journal papers, including 93 as corresponding author, 68 as first author, and 59 published in Q1 journals. He has also presented 68 papers at national and international conferences. As of October 2026, his research has attracted more than 2,900 Google Scholar citations, with an h-index of 35 and an i10-index of 65, alongside a Scopus h-index of 32. He has been included in the Stanford–Elsevier database of the world’s top 2% scientists in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025, and has received four early- and mid-career research excellence awards. His contributions to the international research community include editorial-board service and peer review of more than 230 manuscripts across over 50 scientific journals.

Beyond his research achievements, Dr Ahmadi has demonstrated a sustained commitment to research training, academic leadership, and institutional service. He has supervised 10 PhD candidates, including seven completions, 56 master’s students, more than 20 Honours students, and a postdoctoral Research Fellow. He currently serves as the Lead Graduate Research Coordinator at AMC, working with 37 academics to support 48 higher degree by research candidates throughout their candidature. His leadership potential has also been recognised through selection into UTAS’s Future Research Leaders Program in 2026.

Through his research, teaching, mentoring, and industry engagement, he aims to advance the reliability and sustainability of maritime infrastructure while developing the next generation of engineers and researchers.