Ebrahim HAGHSHENAS

Present Occupation: Assistant Professor & Director of Engineering Geology Group (Geotechnical Research Center)

E-mail: haghshen@iiees.ac.ir
Tel: +98 21 2228 8590
Fax: +98 21 2283 3656

Joined IIEES on October, 1996

Education

• Ph.D. (Mecanique des Milieux Geophysique et Environment)
  Dissertation: "Geotechnical Condition and Local Seismic Hazard in Tehran (in French) "; Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, 2005

• M.Sc. (Engineering Geology)
  Thesis: "Landslide hazard zonation in Taleghan Watershed (in Persian), Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran, 1995

• B.Sc. (Geology)
  Ferdowsi University, Tehran, Iran, 1990

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Research/Teaching & Memberships

Research Interests

• Site Effect Assessment, Seismic Zonation & Microzonation

• Ambient noise (nature and application)

• Landslide (investigation and hazard zonation)

Active Projects

• Site Effect Essessment in Tabriz Using Weak Motion and Ambient Noises

Recent Accomplished Projects

• Site Effect Assessment in Tehran Using Weak Motion and Ambient Noises (Jafari)

Teaching

Membership

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Professional Experience

Engineering

• Seismotectonics, Seismicity and Design Spectra of Tabas Power Plant, IIEES, 1999

• Cooperation in various projects on Site Specific Seismic Hazard and Engineering Geology studies at IIEES

Administration

• Head of the Engineering Geology Department, IIEES, 1998-1999 and 2005-.

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Selected Publications

• Haghshenas. E, (Editor) Proceeding of 2nd seminar on landslides hazard reduction in Iran, IIEES, 1997, Tehran, Iran. (in Persian

• Haghshenas, E., Geotechnical aspect overview of Manjil Earthquake, north of Iran (20 June 1990), The first Iran & Japan workshop on recent earthquake in Iran & Japan, !998, Tehran, Iran.

• HAGHSHENAS E., BARD P.Y., JAFARI M.K. HATZFELD D., RAVANFAR O.( 2003).Preliminary Results of Site Effects Assessment in the City of Tehran (Iran) Using Earthquake and Microtremor Recording, The Fourth Int. Conf. On Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (SEE4) 2003

• E. HAGHSHENAS, P.-Y. BARD, M. K. JAFARI and D. HATZFELD (2003) Effets de site et risque sismique à Téhéran : Premiers résultats d'une étude expérimentale. 6ème colloque national AFPS,2003, Paris France

• P-Y BARD, E. HAGHSHENAS ,Mohammad JAFARI and Denis HATZFELD. PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF SITE EFFECTS ASSESSMENT IN THE CITY OF TEHRAN (IRAN) USING EARTHQUAKE AND MICROTREMOR RECORDING XXIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG'03, Sapporo (Japan), June 30 – July 11, 2003. Japan

• Theodulidis N., Cultrera G., Tento A., Faeh D., Atakan K., Bard. P-Y., Panou A., Haghshenas E., and SESAME team Empirical evaluation of the horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio technique: results from the “SESAME” project, 13th world conference on earthquake Engineering Vancouver, 2004 Canada

• E. Haghshenas, P.-Y. Bard, N. Theodulidis and SESAME WP04 Team . Empirical evaluation of microtremor H/V spectral ratio . Prepared for bulletin of earthquake engineering (special issue on SESAME project).

• F. Askari, A. Azadi, M. Davoodi, M.R. Ghayamghamian, E. Haghshenas, H. Hamzehloo, M.K. Jafari, M. Kamalian, M. Keshavarz, O. Ravanfar, A. Shafiee, and A. Sohrabi-Bidar. JSEE 1383. Preliminary Seismic Microzonation of Bam

• Cornou C., Gueguen P., Bard P-Y, and E. Haghshenas .Ambient noise energy burst observation and modeling: Trapping of harmonic structure-soil induced-waves in a topmost sedimentary layer. Journal of seismology 8: 507-524 .2004

• Bouchon, Michel; Hatzfeld, Denis; Jackson, James A.; Haghshenas, Ebrahim. Some insight on why Bam (Iran) was destroyed by an earthquake of relatively moderate size. Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 33, Number 9, May 2006

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