EMPLOYMENT
Aarhus University (AU), Aarhus, Denmark
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in "Renewable-Energy Technologies", September 2025 - Present.
Researcher in "Digitalization of Wind Energy", October 2024 - September 2025.
Postdoctoral Fellow, August 2021- October 2024.
University of Western Ontario (UWO), London, Canada
Visiting Fellow, December 2017- May 2018
EDUCATION
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering (1st rank), September 2014- June 2020
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, September 2011- January 2014
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, September 2007- September 2011
PUBLICATIONS
I have published peer-reviewed journal articles in high-quality international journals, e.g., Physics of Fluids, Renewable Energy, Energy, PRX Energy, Desalination, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Energy Conversion and Management, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, and Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, among others. I have co-authored papers with researchers from well-known institutions around the world, such as Aarhus University (DK), Pennsylvania State University (US), University of North Carolina-Charlotte (US), University of Toronto (CA), Western University (CA), Universidade da Beira Interior (PT), and Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (DE), among others.
See the full list of publications on my Google Scholar.
SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE
Aarhus University, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aarhus, Denmark
Anders Mølgaard Kristensen (Industrial PhD), "Enhancing centrifugal pump design with physics-informed machine learning", Ongoing.
Roberto Bricalli (Industrial PhD), "Techno-economic analysis of applying vacuum degassing to heating systems", Ongoing.
Malcolm Ian D Souza (Pre-thesis), "RANS simulation of wind farms in complex terrain", Ongoing.
* Previous (Aarhus University and Tehran Polytechnic): 6 + 1 MSc and 9 + 1 BSc students
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Aarhus University, Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Aarhus, Denmark
Instructor and Course Responsible – Wind Energy, Spring Semester 2025
Software Instructor – CFD modeling in Simcenter STAR-CCM+, Autumn Semester 2022 - 2024
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tehran, Iran
Invited Lecturer – National Science Olympiad Class for Thermodynamics, April 2019
Instructor and Course Responsible – Heat Transfer Laboratory, September 2014-September 2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant – Thermodynamics 2, January 2012-May 2017
Graduate Teaching Assistant – Thermodynamics 1, September 2011-January 2020
Azad University, East Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran
Invited Lecturer – Thermodynamics 2 & Fuels and Combustion, Fall 2015
ACADEMIC SERVICE
IUTAM Symposium on Data-driven Modeling and Optimization in Fluid Mechanics, Denmark
Co-organizer, June 2022
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Amirkabir J. of Mechanical Engineering, Tehran, Iran
Assistant Editor & Head of Literary and Technical Editing Team, January 2015-August 2021
28th Annual International Conference of the Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineering, Iran
Session Chair, May 2020
23rd Annual International Conference of the Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineering, Iran
Session Co-chair, May 2015
Reviewer of Scientific Journals (since 2016)
Physics of Fluids, Energy, International Journal of Thermal Science, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Energy Conversion and Management, and Applied Energy, among others.