Main research topics:
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Marine renewable energies (wave energy)
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Climate change impact assessment
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Numerical wave modeling (forecasting and hindcasting)
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Spatio-temporal assessment of long-term wave climate
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Soft computing methods in wave simulations
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Extreme value analysis
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Coast/shore protection
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Coastal zone management
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Employment:
Oct. 2018 - Now
Assistant Professor **
The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University
Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability (GSAIS), Kyoto University
** Competitive position (acceptance rate: around 3%) LINK
Nov. 2016 - Sep 2018
JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Research Fellow*, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Maritime Disaster Section, Kyoto University
* Competitive position (acceptance rate: less than 10%)
Oct. 2013 - Nov. 2016
Research Assistant Professor, Ocean Engineering & Technology Research Center (OETRC), Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS)
Aug. 2010 - Mar. 2013
Senior Researcher, Ocean Engineering & Technology Research Center (OETRC), Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS)
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Education:
Ph.D Civil-Water (Coastal) Engineering, School of Civil engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran (2009-2013)
Graduated with an excellent degree
Supervisors: Prof. Amir Etemad-Shahidi (Griffith University)
Prof. Abbas Yeganeh-Bakhtiyari (IUST)
Adviser: Dr. Vahid Chegini (INIOAS)
M.Sc Civil Engineering-Hydraulic Structures, School of Civil engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran (2007-2009)
Supervisor: Prof. Amir Etemad-Shahidi (Griffith University)
B.Sc Civil Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran (2002-2006)
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Awards and Achievements:
2020 “Exploration France 2020”, awarded by the Embassy of France in Japan
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%) More details
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)
2017 Talented young scientist travel grant to participate in Young Scholar Forum at Sichuan University
2016 JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Research fellowship and grant-in-aid by the JSPS
competitive position, acceptance rate: less than 10%) More details
2016 British Council young scientist grant for taking part in the UK-Iran Researcher Links Workshop: ‘Water Management'
2015 26th IUGG general assembly young scientist travel grant, Prague, Czech Republic
2014 IOC-WESTPAC young scientists travel grant, Nha Trang, Vietnam
2012 PhD Scholarship for doctoral studies, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology
2012 Excellent Research award by the ministry of science, research and technology, 13th best researchers' festival, Tehran, Iran
2012 Student competition award at the 18th Congress of IAHR-APD, Jeju Island, South Korea