Dr Robin Kalfat

Biography

Robin is currently appointed as a Senior Lecturer in Civil and Construction Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology. In addition to academic career, he was employed with SRG limited from the year 2004 to 2009 as a Senior Design Engineer in Melbourne, UK and Dubai and gained extensive experience in design of multi-storey buildings, prestressed concrete, bridge design, concrete repair and strengthening. In 2010, he was engaged by the West Gate Bridge strengthening alliance and designed the strengthening applied to the concrete box girder viaducts which utilized fiber reinforced polymers.  His research interests include: strengthening and rehabilitation of structures, sustainable construction materials, fire performance of FRP strengthened structures, the use of nano materials such as graphene to improve the strength and durability of concrete and advanced numerical techniques for structural analysis. He is a recipient of 2018 Research Impact Award for strengthening bridges with carbon fibre reinforced polymers, presented by Australian Road Research Board (ARRB). The shear-torsion retrofit system and patch anchor developed as part of his PhD project was implemented on the West Gate Bridge Strengthening Project in Melbourne, Australia. Robin also serves as an associate editor for the Australian Journal of Structural Engineering (AJSE).