Aflizal Arafianto

Aflizal Arafianto is a Lecturer in the Civil Engineering Department at Parahyangan Catholic University (UNPAR), Bandung, Indonesia, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) student in Geotechnical Engineering at The University of Western Australia (UWA), supervised by Prof. Barry Lehane and Prof. Phillip Watson. He holds an MSc in Geotechnical Engineering (2019) and BSc in Civil Engineering (2016), both from UNPAR. His expertise includes in-situ testing, numerical modeling, pile foundations, slope stability, and soil characterization.

• Affiliations: UNPAR (since 2020), UWA (PhD candidate)

Research focuses on geotechnical engineering challenges such as ground movement analysis, bridge abutments, and soft clay behavior. He has over six years of industry experience as a geotechnical engineer and is certified as Ahli Geoteknik Madya by HATTI.

• Education: BSc (2016), MSc (2019, UNPAR), PhD candidate (UWA)

Publications span topics like CPT investigations, p-y curve derivation for pile foundations, and finite element modeling of soil-structure interactions. Notable awards include the LPDP Scholarship (2022) and Best Paper at ICCOEE 2020.