Dr. Mohamed Naveed N

About Doctor

Dr Naveed is a civil engineer by practice with nearly 10 years’ experience working in the higher education and Industry.

Dr Naveed is Associate Professor in Civil Engineering in University of West London, an expert in Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering, member of the Pakistan Engineering council, an associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.

Prior to joining the University of West London, he was working as Lecturer at University of the West of Scotland for one year and before that he was working as research fellow at University of Aberdeen for three years. He has worked on several research projects in the UK and Europe. The projects that he has been working on in recent years are: 

Rhizosphere by design: breading to select root traits that physically manipulate soil funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)

StressSoil: funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research.

Soil Infrastructure, Interfaces, and Translocation Processes in Inner Space (Soil-it-is) granted by the Danish Research Council for Technology and Production Sciences 

He has (co)authored over 40 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference papers. He also worked as a geotechnical engineer on a number of infrastructure projects at the leading international consultant (NESPAK) for 3 years before moving to academia.

Dr Naveed has taught a number of undergraduate/postgraduate civil engineering modules mainly related to Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering and Environmental soil physics in the UK and abroad. He is currently the module leader for the following modules at the University of West London: Soil Mechanics, Geology, Geotechnical Design and Advanced Geotechnical Engineering.

His research interests cover a wide range of topics in Geotechnical & Geoenvironmental Engineering and Environmental Soil Physics in particular, including

• Roads Deteriorate in the form of Discrete Craters (Potholes): How an Effective Design and Innovative Material could stop this.
• Soil stabilization using plant based bio materials and agricultural waste
• Stress transmission through soil and different layers of pavement
• Permanent and temporary support to excavated slopes using soil nails
• Bioengineering of slopes: How root length density, root branching, root strength and root exudates contributes to soil slope reinforcement.
• Soil improvement using Microbial Induced Calcite (MIC)
• Earth based infrastructure resistance against changing climate

If you are looking to pursue full time/part time PhD in one of the above research topics, please feel free to directly email Dr Muhammad Naveed.