Mohamed Farid Abbas

Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department

Mohamed Farid Abbas is an Associate Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. He graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University and joined the Housing and Building National Research Center as a research assistant at its Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering Institute, completing his MSc in geotechnical engineering at Cairo University. He then earned his PhD from King Saud University in Riyadh. His research interests include unsaturated and expansive soil behaviour, thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour, fundamental soil mechanics, soil improvement, innovation in laboratory and field testing, and sustainability and the circular economy in geotechnical engineering. He has participated in several funded projects and is the author and co-author of several peer-reviewed papers.