Prof. Guillermo Narsilio is Deputy Head of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at The University of Melbourne (2020-today) and Chair of the ISSMGE Technical Committee 308 on Energy Geotechnics. He is a former member of the ARC College of Experts (2018-2021). Dr Narsilio is also a past Chair of the Australian Geomechanics Society (Victoria Chapter, 2019-2020) and a former Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow .
Dr Narsilio received his PhD in Geotechnical Engineering (2006) and his Masters in Mathematics (2006) and in Geotechnical Engineering (2003) from Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). He obtained his Civil Engineering degree from the National University of Cordoba (Argentina) in 2001. He undertook his postdoctoral experience at The University of Melbourne, guided by Prof David Smith, he became a Lecturer at the Melbourne School of Engineering in 2009, Senior Lecturer in 2012, and he is now an Associate Professor. His research interests include numerical modelling, multi-scale porous material characterisation and performance and the (sustainable) energy industry. He and a group of researchers at the Melbourne Energy Institute (including Prof I Johnston, Prof L Aye, Prof S Halgamuge) are pursuing further research on basic and applied shallow and deep geothermal energy systems and the use of AI. |
Postdocs & close collaborators
Xiaoying Gu
2020 - present |
Luis Bandeira Neto
2020 - present |
PhD Students |
* Co-supervision
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Alberto Jose Escobar Montero
2023 - present Qusi I. Alqawasmeh
2022 - present Xiangdong Dai
2021 - present Jie Qi
2020 - present |
Zhe Li
2023 - present Luis Villegas Negrette
2021 - present Maryam Hamlehdar
2020 - present |
Stephan Düber
2022 - present Mauricio Cárcamo Medel
2021 - present Tairu Chen
2020 - present |
Research Assistants
Visiting students
Xiuxiu Miao
2014 - 2016 |
Dr. Baohua Yang
March - Sep 2016 |
Group pictures
Former members
Yu Zhong
2019 - 2023 |
Visiting scholars
- Dr. Fleur Loveridge (Leeds, UK) (visitor, 2015, 2017, 2019)
- A/Prof. Marcelo Sanchez (Texas A&M, USA) (visitor, 2016)
- Dr. Renmin Li (visitor)