Dr. Aslam Kunhi Mohamed

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Building Science Block # 218, Dept. of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, TN 600036, India.

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Dr. Aslam Kunhi Mohamed

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai, TN 600036, India

Aslam Kunhi Mohamed is an Assistant Professor in the Building Technology, Construction Materials, and Management (BTCM) Group, Department of Civil Engineering at IIT Madras since 2023. He received his B.Tech in Metallurgical and Materials engineering from IIT Madras and then proceeded to EPFL for his Master’s degree. In the same university, he then pursued his Ph.D on the atomic structure of the main hydration product of cement, the calcium silicate hydrates using molecular simulations. This was followed by a few years of postdoc at ETH Zurich where he worked on molecular modelling of organic admixtures in concrete. .  

Research Areas

 Molecular modelling of construction materials
 Cement hydration at the atomic scale
 Molecular dynamics, Density functional theory simulations

Molecular modelling of construction materials

Development of low CO2 binders such as calcium sulfoaluminate cement.



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Cement hydration at the atomic scale

Short-term and long-term performance, hydration reactions, thermodynamic modelling

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Molecular dynamics, Density functional theory simulations

Mineral carbonation – valorization of industrial byproducts

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Professional Experience

  1. 2018-till
    Assistant Professor
    Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
  2. 2015-2018
    Postdoctoral Associate
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A.
  3. 2009-2010
    Teaching Assistant
    Clarkson University, Potsdam, U.S.A.
  4. 2007-2008
    Graduate Engineer Trainee
    Delhi International Airport Ltd. (GMR Group), New Delhi, India
     
  5. 2007
    Junior Engineer
    Gammon India Ltd., New Delhi, India

Education

  1.  2018

    Ph.D., Civil Engineering

    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland CH-1015
  2. 2013

    M.S.,

    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland CH-1015
  3. 2011

    B.Tech., Metallurgical and Materials Engineering

    Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Awards

  • 2020
    Outstanding Reviewer Award
    Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering (ASCE)
  • 2016
    Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program (KTCP)
    MIT
  • 2015
    Listed among Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students
    University of Illinois
  • 2014
    Conference Travel Award
    University of Illinois