Researcher

My Expertise

I have a wealth of experience developing successful research grant applications, engaging with the industry and profession, building strong research teams, conducting research in Australia and overseas, and leading a research centre. My area of research covers land administration, cadastre, spatial data infrastructures, 3D GIS, space situational awareness and the nexus of construction engineering and geospatial engineering, most notably BIM and digital engineering.

I bring in-depth and rich skills in university teaching, developing teaching grants, coordinating degrees, inter/cross-disciplinary/online curriculum development, accreditation, and assisting students in progressing in their studies. In this context, I envision developing teaching methods considering that the learners in universities have grown up with digital technologies. This philosophy also entails that today’s formal learning classroom and online distance learning systems keep students motivated.

I have built and maintained a strong network with the surveying and spatial industry across Australia and Internationally.  I will bring strong industry and professional links with Australian and international bodies and government agencies such as the United Nations, World Bank, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inter-governmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM), mapping and land authorities across Australia, Singapore Land Authority, Surveying and Mapping Agency of Malaysia as well as the internationally renowned private sector.

Beyond contributions to academia, my research has had a demonstrable contribution to industry; most notably, I am a co-founder of, Faramoon, a start-up company that has licensed technology developed in my research group for commercialisation purposes. I aim to foster a mindset that advocates the importance of entrepreneurship in academic research to raise the culture of entrepreneurship in your School.

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Fields of Research (FoR)

Geomatic engineering, Building information modelling and management, Construction engineering, Astrodynamics and space situational awareness, Surveying (incl. hydrographic surveying), Geospatial information systems and geospatial data modelling, Geomatic engineering not elsewhere classified

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Biography

Mohsen Kalantari is an Associate Professor of Geospatial Engineering at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a Co-Founder at Faramoon. Previously, he has worked for the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Before his academic career, he worked with the surveying and spatial industry through his role in the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) as the Victorian...view more