Mir Seyedabbasi

Dr. SeyedAbbasi is a Technical Director with over 15 years of experience in soil and groundwater investigations, remediation, environmental fate and transport modeling, academic research, and environmental consulting. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois and Texas. He has experience in developing, troubleshooting, and reviewing flow and transport models and has worked on modeling projects spanning a wide range of spatial and temporal scales, complex geological settings, and challenging numerical conditions. His modeling expertise also includes multi-phase, multi‐component modeling capabilities by using widely tested and successfully applied programs for reactive transport simulations. Dr. SeyedAbbasi has experience in environmental litigation support, including roles as consulting the testifying experts for numerous cases involving forensic analysis of environmental impacts; natural resource damage assessment; remediation of soil and groundwater; and creating and reviewing environmental fate and transport, spill and risk models, and allocation of liability for projects in the US, Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia. He has been the Co-Principal Investigator and participant for numerous environmental research and development projects for the Department of Energy, American Petroleum Institute (API), Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council (ITRC), and Department of Defense (DoD), and has experience working with research and development teams comprised of mixed academic, industrial, and consulting members. He has conducted and published research on a variety of areas related to subsurface contamination, site investigation and characterization, remediation technologies, spill modeling, matrix diffusion, and multiphase fate and transport in unsaturated and saturated subsurface media.