Professor Al-Tabbaa’s research revolves around the development, testing and application of technologies and materials in civil & environmental engineering for intelligent, sustainable and low carbon future infrastructure and built environment. This includes ground improvement, land remediation, low carbon cementitious materials, carbon capture and sequestration, intelligent biomimetic infrastructure systems, self-healing and self-sensing materials, ground improvement, land remediation and waste treatment and reuse. Her work covers the whole spectrum of infrastructure materials from soils to concrete. She is the author of over 200 journal papers and over 200 conference papers, 2 books and 6 book chapters.