Dr Salami is an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering and a member of the FutureStructures Research Group within the School of Engineering at University of Birmingham.
He completed his PhD at the University of Bristol in 2017, where his research focused on the effects of aftershocks on buildings following major earthquakes. Afterwards, he undertook a two-year postdoctoral position at the University of Warwick, where he worked on structural health monitoring of the Suramadu cable-stayed bridge in Indonesia.
In 2018, he joined Birmingham City University as a lecturer in Civil Engineering. During his time there, he has delivered core engineering modules at different levels and successfully supervised MSc and PhD students, and served as the course leader for the MSc in Civil Engineering for two years.