Dr. Pooneh Maghoul
- Lead in Sustainable Infrastructure in Cold Regions at The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)
- Founder and Director, Sustainable Infrastructure and Geomechanics Laboratory (SIGLab)
- Co-Founder, Space Resources and Infrastructure Engineering (ASTROLITH)
- Full Professor, Department of Civil, Geological and Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal
- VP Finance, Canadian Geotechnical Society
- Director, Mars Society of Canada
- Chercheuse Associée, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP)
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Manitoba
- Board of Directors, Canadian Permafrost Association
- Co-Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee, Canadian Permafrost Association
- Co-Chair & Lead Author, Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering, Guidelines on Lunar Engineering Design, Analysis, and Construction (LEDAC), Committee on Space Engineering and Construction (SEC), Aerospace Division (ASD), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Lead Author, Canadian Foundation Engineering Manual (5th Edition, 2023)

Pooneh Maghoul
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Bureau B336.6 | C.P. 6079, succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, (Québec) CANADA, H3C 3A7
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Research Interests:
Computational Geo-Mechanics
Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Media
Constitutive Modeling of Geomaterials
Multiscale Modeling
Wave Analysis
Geohazards (landslide, earthquake, and climate change)
Northern Infrastructure
Permafrost Engineering
Renewable Geothermal Energy
Small Modular Nuclear Reactors (SMR)
Non-Destructive-Testing Techniques
Soil-Structure Interaction
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
Bio-Inspired Solutions Toward Sustainable and Smart Geotechnics
Tailings Mechanics
Smart Mining
Digital Twins of Geo-Infrastructure
Circularity in Geotechnical Engineering