Mahmoud Ahmed (M.Sc) is a PhD candidate at the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. His research focus encompasses various aspects of tailings and mine waste management for surface mining operations. His research interests: tailings remediation and reclamation, tailings dewatering and geotechnical behaviour, geosynthetic reinforced earth structures (walls, slopes, embankments, foundations, pavements, etc.), buried structures, soil-structure interactions