{"id":19,"date":"2016-09-22T16:15:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T16:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dev.dundee.ac.uk\/masoud\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:52:34","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/masoud\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering, Fall 2013<\/b>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

M.Sc. in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Fall 2007<\/b>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Minor: Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering), Fall 2004<\/b>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Sep. 2020 – Present<\/b>
Fluid Mechanics, School of Science and Engineering
University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecturer (Assistance Professor), Sep. 2016 – Sep. 2020<\/b>
Fluid Mechanics, School of Science and Engineering
University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Sep. 2014 – May 2017<\/b>
Ocean Engineering Department
College of Engineering
Texas A&M University, Galveston, Texas, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dec. 2013 – Aug. 2014<\/b>
Ocean and Resources Engineering & Civil and Environmental Engineering Departments,
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Assistant, Jun. 2011 – Dec. 2013<\/b>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teaching Assistant, Aug. 2007 – Jun. 2011<\/b>
Ocean and Resources Eng. Dep., University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
Department chair: J.C. Wiltshire, B. Howe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visiting Scholar, Oct. 2006 – Jun. 2007<\/b>
Numerical Modeling of Fluid-Structure Interaction.
Ocean and Resources Eng. Dep., University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
Principal Investigator: J.B. Frandsen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Assistant, Mar. 2004 – Aug. 2005<\/b>
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering, Fall 2013Ocean 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 2007Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/masoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/masoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/masoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/masoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/masoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/masoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/masoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/masoud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}