Farshid Vahedifard

Farshid Vahedifard is Berger Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. He also serves as the Lead, Resilient and Equitable Infrastructure, the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)

Research Interests include:

- Resilient and equitable infrastructure
- Impacts of extreme events (e.g., drought, flood, wildfire) in a changing climate on infrastructure and communities
- Climate adaptation of infrastructure
- Slopes, dams, and levees
- Unsaturated soil mechanics
- Multi-physics (e.g., hydro-mechanical, thermo-hydro-mechanical) processes in soils
- Analytical and numerical methods in geotechnical engineering