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Employment:

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Oct 2021-NOW                Visiting Researcher

​Department of Physics

Faculty of Natural Sciences

Imperial College London 

United Kingdom

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Oct 2018-NOW                Assistant Professor

The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research

Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS)

Kyoto University.

Highly competitive position (acceptance rate: around 3%) 

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Oct 2021-Feb 2022         Visiting Senior Lecturer

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Brunel University London
Howell Building, Tower D 413
Uxbridge, UB8 3PH
United Kingdom

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Nov 2016-Sep 2018        JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Disaster Prevention Research Institute

Kyoto University

Competitive position (acceptance rate: less than 10%)

 

Oct 2013-Nov 2016         Assistant Professor

Ocean Engineering and Technology Research Center (OETRC)

Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS)

 

Aug 2010-Sep 2013        Part-time senior researcher

Ocean Engineering and Technology Research Center (OETRC)

Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS)

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Education:

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Ph.D. (2009-2013)           Civil Engineering (Hydraulic/Coastal Engineering)

Enviro-Hydroinformatics Center of Excellence, School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST)

          Graduated with an excellent degree

Thesis title: Climate change impact on wave energy regime

Supervisors: Prof. Amir Etemad-Shahidi (Griffith University), Prof. Abbas Yeganeh-Bakhtiyari (IUST), Dr. Vahid Chegini (INIOAS)

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M.Sc. (2007-2009)           Civil Engineering (Hydraulic/Coastal Engineering)

Enviro-Hydroinformatics Center of Excellence, School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST)

Thesis title: Assessment of the effect of wind field on wave hindcasting

Supervisor: Prof. Amir Etemad-Shahidi (Griffith University, Australia)

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B.Sc. (2002-2006)           Civil Engineering

College of Engineering, University of Tehran (UT), Tehran, Iran

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Awards and Achievements:

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• Exploration France 2020”, for collaboration with the Université Sorbonne Paris Nord & IPSL Laboratory of Oceanography and Climate: Experiments and Numerical Approaches (LOCEAN), awarded by the Embassy of France in Japan, 2020

• Talented young scientist travel grant to participate Young Scholar Forum at Sichuan University, China, 2018

• Full-time faculty member (Assistant Prof.) position (Global Type), The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University, Japan (highly competitive position, acceptance rate: around 3%), 2018

• Sêr Cymru II MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) COFUND postdoctoral fellowship research at Swansea University, UK, funded by the European Commission and Welsh Government (competitive position), 2018

• JSPS Postdoctoral Research fellowship and grant-in-aid by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for the project “Projection of wave climate and wave energy due to the climate change”, 2016

• British Council young scientist grant for taking part in the UK-Iran Researcher Links Workshop: ‘Water Management', 2016

• 26th IUGG general assembly travel grant, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015

• IOC-WESTPAC young scientists travel grant, NhaTrang, Vietnam, 2014

• Excellent Research award for the project "Evaluation of wave energy potential in the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman", awarded by the ministry of science, research and technology, 13th best researchers' festival, Tehran, Iran, 2012

• Awardee in student competition of 18th Congress of the Asia and Pacific Division of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), Jeju Island, South Korea, 2012