Sanandam Bordoloi
Nation/Region-nominated Member
Finland
Name: Sanandam Bordoloi
Position: Assistant Professor, Aalto University / Academy Research Fellow, Research Council of Finland
Birthdate: November 1990
Email: sanandam.bordoloi@
Sanandam Bordoloi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Aalto University and an Academy Research Fellow of the Research Council of Finland. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, and has held post-doctoral positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Aalto University in late 2023 on the tenure-track programme. In 2026 he was awarded the Academy Research Fellow title by the Research Council of Finland.
He holds the Telford Premium Prize from ICE (UK) and the Excellent Young Minds award from ISSMGE. His research focuses on transportation geotechnics, mining geotechnics and environmental geotechnics. Over the last ten years he has published about 100 papers in SCI/Scopus-indexed journals, including Géotechnique Letters, the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Acta Geotechnica and the Canadian Geotechnical Journal. He is PI of four national projects funded by the European Union, the Research Council of Finland, Business Finland and the Finnish Research Impact Foundation.
He is a member of the ISSMGE Asian Regional Technical Committee on Biogeotechnics (AsRTC 22) and serves as an Associate Editor of Environmental Geotechnics and the Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics, among others. He is the Finnish chair of the NG2 (NextGen Geotechnics Consortium) group working on Nordic-specific geotechnical problems, and is passionate about pedagogy in geotechnics.