Vikram Pakrashi is Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland. He is also a funded investigator with MaREI, the SFI Research Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy, and is the President of Civil Engineering Research Association of Ireland.
His current research interests are focused on structural dynamics, structural health monitoring and control, infrastructure risk assessment, and fluid-structure interactions.

Vikram Pakrashi is Chartered Engineer and directs the interdisciplinary Dynamical Systems and Risk Laboratory in UCD, which received the Academic/Research Laboratory of the Year, and the Education Laboratory of the Year at the Irish Laboratory Awards, 2020.

Vikram is a principal investigator of several projects with industrial funding and extensively collaborates with engineers, physicists and mathematicians.