Dr. Said Elias Rahimi

Since Oct 2023
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Risk and Reliability at the Leibniz University Hannover

Aug 2022 - Oct 2023
Scientific Managing Editor at Elsevier

July 2021 - May 2022
Researcher, University of Twente, Netherlands

Oct 2018 - May 2021
Postdoctral Researcher, University of Iceland

2011-2017 
PhD in Civil Engineering,   IIT Delhi, New Delhi India    

2009-2011  
Master of Technology (M.Tech.) Structural Engineering, MNIT Jaipur, India    

2005-2008  
Bsc in Civil Engineering, Herat Univesity, Afghanistan

2014
Best Paper Award from Structural Engineering Convention 2014 (SEC14), SEC Conference 

2014   
Best Paper Award, Springer

2020   
Outstanding Reviewer of  Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction,  ASCE  

2019

Keynote lecture at the EMI International Conference, 2019, France, Lyon, 3-5, July 2019

Title: The performance of the passive tuned mass dampers for response control of tall buildings while subjected multi-hazard

Invited talk at Acoustic Colloquium Program at TUM, Munich Germany, April 2019 

Title: Effectiveness of Distributed Multiple Tuned Mass Dampers for Mitigation of Undesirable Vibrations in Structures

Invited poster presentation at TU Delft Talent Event, Delft, Netherlands 

Title: Dynamic response control of wind turbines

2019 to Present 
Associate Editor/Editor, Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction, ASCE

2020 to Present  
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration & Active Control, Sage Publications

2020 to Present 
Associate Editor, Computational Methods in Structural Engineering 

2020 to Present   
Editorial Board Member, Shock and Vibration  

2023 to Present
Editorial Board Member, Progress in Engineering Science