I am an associate professor in the Department of Energy systems engineering at the School of New Technologies (Iran University of Science and Technology) since 1992. I also have a B.Sc. degree from Ferdousi Mashhad University and an M.Sc. qualification from the Sharif University of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. I also obtained my PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from Sheffield University in the UK. My research interests are in energy systems optimization and modeling.