Rate My Professor Mojtaba Rajabi

Dr Mojtaba Rajabi is a UQ Amplify Senior Lecturer in the School of the Environment, Faculty of Science, at the University of Queensland. He earned his PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Adelaide in 2017. With over 15 years of extensive experience in crustal stress analysis, geomechanics, geomechanical-numerical modelling, and petrophysics, Dr Rajabi has conducted geomechanical analyses across more than 30 sedimentary basins worldwide, including Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, Mozambique, Iceland, and the Western Mediterranean. Since 2012, he has contributed to the Australian and World Stress Map projects and currently serves as Deputy-Head of the World Stress Map project.

Dr Rajabi's research specializations include geomechanics of geo-storage for underground CO2 and hydrogen storage, structural geology and geomechanics with analyses of in-situ stresses and subsurface fractures in reservoirs and mines, geomechanical-numerical modelling from 1D to 3D for safe and sustainable underground usage, neotectonic stress analyses determining contemporary stress states and their relationships with recent structural styles, petrophysics and subsurface geology using geophysical logs and seismic data, and applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence in geosciences. He has authored or co-authored 111 works between 2009 and 2026, including 52 journal articles, 52 conference publications, one book chapter, and other outputs. Key publications encompass "The present-day stress field of Australia" (Earth-Science Reviews, 2017), "Prediction of the present-day stress field in the Australian continental crust using 3D geomechanical-numerical models" (Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2017), "The World Stress Map database release 2016: crustal stress pattern across scales" (Tectonophysics, 2018), "Characterizing the contemporary stress orientations near an active continental rifting zone: A case study from the Moatize Basin, central Mozambique" (Basin Research, 2022), "Stress state at faults: the influence of rock stiffness contrast, stress orientation, and ratio" (Solid Earth, 2024), and "Contribution of mine borehole data toward high-resolution stress mapping: An example from northern Bowen Basin, Australia" (International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 2024). Dr Rajabi's scholarship has earned over 4,000 citations on Google Scholar. He has received more than 15 prestigious awards, including the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, Australian SEG Early Achievement Award, EAGE Louis Cagniard Award, EGU Tectonics and Structural Geology Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award, Royal Society of South Australia's H.G. Andrewartha Medal, and International Lithosphere Program’s Flinn-Hart Award.