Meet our faculty, Professor Hamzeh Hajiloo

Dr. Hajiloo has joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University in July 2019. Prior to this, Dr. Hajiloo worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Queen’s University continuing his research on the performance of sustainable and durable construction materials at high temperatures. He also was the program coordinator for NSERC CREATE SERA (Sustainable Engineering in Remote Area). He received his Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering from Queen’s University in 2017 where he studied how FRP reinforced concrete structures perform in a fire. He has been a licenced professional engineer (P.Eng) in Ontario since 2020.

Dr. Hajiloo’s research on fire performance of FRP reinforced concrete structures has generated the knowledge to move towards rational fire safety design of FRP reinforced concrete structures, which are used by ACI-440-0H committee. He is a voting member of ACI-440-H and ACI 216 committees. He is the chair of a task group in the ACI 216 committee that is developing a rational fire safety design document for concrete structural members.

Looking at extraordinary events, particularly fire, is the main research focus of Dr. Hajiloo. His current research projects are implementing machine learning tools in developing a comprehensive understanding of construction materials and structural members in fires as well as the fire hazards in infrastructure such as bridges. Dr. Hajiloo was a visiting researcher at Hong Kong PolyU and has studied the progressive collapse of structures in fires in collaboration with scholars from HK PolyU. He also looks at how novel construction materials can be safely used to strengthen structures. Other than fire safety, he is currently studying the effects of impact loads on columns.