- Assistant Professor
- C.J. Craft Faculty Fellow
- Joint Faculty in: Civil Engineering, Petroleum
- Phone: 979.845.2920
- Email: sara.abedi@tamu.edu
- Office: RICH 401L
- Website: Research Website
Educational Background
- Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- PhD, civil engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
- MS, soil mechanics, University of Tehran, Iran
- BS, civil engineering, University of Tehran, Iran
Research Interests
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- Mechanics and physics of geomaterials
- Multiscale chemo-mechanical characterization and modeling
- Reservoir geomechanics
- Granular material failure and flow and granular physics
Awards & Honors
- One of two recipients of the 2015 SPE Petroleum Engineering Young Faculty Research Initiation Fellowship Award
- Recipient of Best PhD Thesis award from Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, USC (2012)
- Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Merit Fellowship, USC (2010-2011)