Dr. Mojtaba Rajabi is a UQ Amplify Senior Lecturer in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland. He has over 15 years of extensive experience in crustal stress analysis, geomechanics, geomechanical–numerical modeling and petrophysics. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of Adelaide in 2017. Dr. Rajabi has worked on the geomechanical analyses of >30 sedimentary basins from across the world, including Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East, Mozambique, Iceland, and the Western Mediterranean. Since 2012, Dr. Rajabi has worked on the Australian and World Stress Map projects and currently is the Deputy-Head of the World Stress Map project. Dr. Rajabi has received over 15 prestigious awards and prizes for his research, including the ARC-DECRA Award, the Australian SEG Early Achievement Award, the EAGE Louis Cagniard Award, EGU TS Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award, the Royal Society of South Australia's H.G. Andrewartha Medal, and the International Lithosphere Program’s Flinn-Hart Award.