Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering, Fall 2013
Ocean and Resources Engineering Department,
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST),
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
Advisor and Dissertation Committee Chair: Professor R. Cengiz Ertekin.
Dissertation Title: Nonlinear Wave Loads on Decks of Coastal Structures.
M.Sc. in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Fall 2007
Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering,
Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden.
Thesis Examiner: Professor Carl-Erik Janson.
Thesis Title: Low Re Flows Around Sharp and Circular Bluff Bodies and Ship Shapes Using a Lattice Boltzmann Approach.
B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Minor: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering), Fall 2004
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Advisor: Professor Mohammad Saeed Seif.
Thesis Title: Optimization in Design of Marine Structures Using a Genetic Algorithm Method.
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Sep. 2020 – Present
Fluid Mechanics, School of Science and Engineering
University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
Lecturer (Assistance Professor), Sep. 2016 – Sep. 2020
Fluid Mechanics, School of Science and Engineering
University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.
Assistant Professor, Sep. 2014 – May 2017
Ocean Engineering Department
College of Engineering
Texas A&M University, Galveston, Texas, USA.
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dec. 2013 – Aug. 2014
Ocean and Resources Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
Research Assistant, Jun. 2011 – Dec. 2013
Coastal Bridge and Port Vulnerability to Tsunami and Storm Surge project, funded by Hawaii Department of Transportation. Ocean and Resources Eng. Dep., University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
Principal Investigators: R.C. Ertekin, H.R. Riggs, I.N. Robertson.
Teaching Assistant, Aug. 2007 – Jun. 2011
Ocean and Resources Eng. Dep., University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
Department chair: J.C. Wiltshire, B. Howe.
Visiting Scholar, Oct. 2006 – Jun. 2007
Numerical Modeling of Fluid-Structure Interaction.
Ocean and Resources Eng. Dep., University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
Principal Investigator: J.B. Frandsen.
Research Assistant, Mar. 2004 – Aug. 2005
Research Assistant in towing-tank experiments, model testing and cavitation tunnel.
Marine Eng. Laboratory, Sharif Univ. of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
Principal Investigator: M.S. Seif.
