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Biography
Dr Jelena Ninić is an Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at the Centre for Structural Engineering and Informatics (CSEI) since December 2018. Before obtaining her academic position she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow on the "SATBIM" project at the same department. Dr Ninić obtained her Dipl.-Ing. degree in structural engineering at the Faculty for Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade (Serbia) in 2008. Afterwards, she worked at the same faculty as a teaching assistant at the Chair for Geotechnical Engineering. From 2010, she was as a research associate at the Institute for Structural Mechanics at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany, where she obtained her PhD degree with 'distinction' in 2015. In 2012, she was a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.
Jelena is an Associate Editor at the Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology (TUST) since January 2021.
Dr Ninic is also a member of the Centre for Structural Engineering & Informatics Research Group.
Expertise Summary
Dr Ninić's research focuses is on the development and application of numerical methods for the analysis of complex construction processes involving soil-structure interactions and time-dependent effects. She combines advanced numerical methods with novel ICT to study structural and geotechnical problems. The methods she develps include Finite Element (FE) formulations on the element and constitutive level, artificial neural networks, optimisation algorithms, algorithms for sensitivity analysis and methods to handle massive computations and analyse the resulting data. In the SATBIM project, Dr Ninić works on the integration of the design and analysis process by developing a unified platform combining Building Information Modelling (BIM) and numerical simulations.
Teaching Summary
Fundamentals of Materials (H22FOM UK)
Building Information Modelling (BIM) Design Project (H23GDP UK)
Jelena is also running the I1 & I2 - *Introduction to BIM* and *Further BIM* workshops for Second year Civil Engineering students
Research Summary
SATBIM (H2020-MSCA-IF 702874) - Simulations for multi-level Analysis of interactions in Tunnelling based on the Building Information Modelling technology
NO2NOISE - A European Industrial Doctorate Network underMarie Sklodowska Curie Grant 765472
OptiMACS (H2020-MSCA-ITN 764650) - European industrial doctorate for efficient multidisciplinary design Optimisation of Multifunctional Aerospace Composite Structures
Transforming bridge inspections through digital technologies - Funded by EPSRC DTP Highways England and WSP limited
Recent Publications
JELENA NINIĆ, ABDULLAH ALSAHLY, ANDRE VONTHRON, HOANG GIANG BUI, CHRISTIAN KOCH, MARKUS KOENIG and GÜNTHER MESCHKE, 2021. From digital models to numerical analysis for mechanised tunnelling: a fully automated design-through-analysis workflow Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology. 107, 103622 MANUELA CABRERA, WALID TIZANI and JELENA NINIĆ, 2021. A Review and Analysis of Testing and Modeling Practice of Extended Hollo-Bolt Blind Bolt Connections Journal of Constructional Steel Research. 183, 106763
Future Research
I welcome enquiries from potential PhD candidates from Home, EU and international countries who are interested in the following research areas: Multi-phase multi-physics numerical modelling, meta models, optimisation algorithms, sensitivity analysis, massive and parallel computations, BIM and parametric modelling, integration of numerical analysis in BIM software.