Rate My Professor Rajibul Karim

Rajibul Karim is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil Engineering and Construction within the College of Engineering and Information Technology at Adelaide University. He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales Sydney in 2011, with research focused on soft soil engineering and ground improvement. His Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering was awarded by Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh, in 2004. After his PhD, Dr. Karim worked as a researcher in institutions across Australia and the United Kingdom. He served as Research Fellow at Queen's University from 2014 to 2015, Lecturer at the University of South Australia from 2015 to 2020, and Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia from 2020 to 2025.

Dr. Karim's research specializations include climate change, soil-atmospheric boundary interaction, expansive soils, ground improvement, soft soil engineering, constitutive modelling, numerical modelling, soil-structure interaction, granular material behaviour, pavement engineering, tailing material behaviour, liquefaction, and bio-cementation. He has authored numerous impactful publications in geotechnical engineering. Key contributions are Ahenkorah et al. (2021), 'Enzyme induced calcium carbonate precipitation and its engineering application: A systematic review and meta-analysis' (Construction and Building Materials, Scopus citations: 110); Rahman et al. (2020), 'State-of-the-art review of microbial-induced calcite precipitation and its sustainability in engineering applications' (Sustainability, Scopus citations: 188); Ahenkorah et al. (2021), 'A Review of Enzyme Induced Carbonate Precipitation (EICP): The Role of Enzyme Kinetics' (Sustainable Chemistry, Scopus citations: 106); and recent works such as Karim et al. (2024), 'Thornthwaite moisture index and depth of suction change under current and future climate – An Australian study' (Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering), and Devkota et al. (2025), 'The changing frequency of La Niña cycles and their effect on footing design in expansive soils' (Journal of Environmental Management). Dr. Karim received the Institution of Civil Engineers Telford Premium Prize in 2022. He is Associate Editor of Geotechnical Research (Institution of Civil Engineers, United Kingdom, since 2023), a member of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering TC202 (Transportation Geotechnics, since 2025), and the Australian Geomechanics Society Executive Committee SA-NT (since 2017). His professional memberships include Engineers Australia (since 2025) and the Australian Geomechanics Society (since 2017).