Rouzbeh Abbassi completed his Ph.D. in environmental engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John’s, NL, Canada). Upon completion, he was offered and undertook two Postdoctoral Fellowships; firstly at the Department of Process Engineering of Memorial University and secondly at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University. Before joining Macquarie University, he was an environmental, safety, and risk engineering lecturer and senior lecturer at the Australian Maritime College (AMC) of the University of Tasmania. He was the discipline leader for the Civil Engineering Program. Currently, he is the Director of Research at the School of Engineering at Macquarie University.