Ehsan Yaghoubi is an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at the College of Sport, Health and Engineering, Victoria University. He is also the Associate Director (Research) at the Institute for Sustainable Industries & Liveable Cities, and Leader of the Geotechnical, Rock Mechanics and Pavement research group (Pavement Geotechnics & Recycled Materials). He is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) of the Institute of Engineers Australia in Civil Engineering & Geotechnical Engineering. He obtained Ph.D. from Swinburne University of Technology in 2018. He has been a recipient of the 2021 Vice Chancellor’s Award in the “Innovation” Category & the 2022 Vice Chancellor’s Award in the “Sustainability” Category. He has led several Victoria State Government-funded projects on the application of waste and recycled materials in infrastructure, in particular pavements. He had a leading role in the development of VU’s state-of-the-art geotechnical and pavement laboratories and has established VU’s inaugural asphalt testing facility capable of undertaking cutting-edge research on asphalt and pavement materials. His area of expertise includes asphalt mixtures, pavement geotechnics, circular economy & recycled/waste materials in geotechnical and pavement applications, unsaturated soil mechanics, and improvement of expansive/reactive soils.