Postdoctoral and visiting scholar:

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Heriot-Watt University, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, Edinburgh, UK. (2013-2014)

EPSRC Project entitled "The influence of sand-mud interactions on mixed sediment dynamics" (EPSRC Ref. EP/K015117/1) Under supervision of Dr. Alan J. Cuthbertson

• Visiting Scholar, University of Florida, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, Gainesville, FL, USA (2011)

• Visiting Scholar, Waseda University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo, Japan (2011)

        Research project entitled "Laboratory investigation of wave-mud-current interaction" Under supervision of Prof. Tomoya Shibayama

• Senior Research Assistant, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Civil Engineering Department, Hydraulic Model Laboratory (2012-2013)

Research project entitled "Experimental investigation of alternative armor layer-Gabion mattress, articulating concrete block, geotextile bag in breakwater with geotextile tube as a core under wave action"

  Other Professional Activity:

1.   Reviewer

• Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, ASCE

• Ocean Engineering, Elsevier

• Iranian Journal of Geophysics (IJG), Iranian Geophysical Society

• Scientica Iranica, Sharif University of Technology

• Journal of Hydraulic Structures (JHS), Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz

2.   Member of local organizing committee

  15^th International Conference on Cohesive Sediment Transport Processes, Istanbul, Turkey (2019)

3.   Member of supervisory committee

  Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) projects, Ports and Maritime Organization of Iran (Since 2019)

4.   Supervisor of IAU West Tehran Branch students' team

  First place award in Light weight Concrete competition in 16^th National Concrete Competition, Iranian Concrete Institute (2018)

5.   Certificate of outstanding contribution in reviewing

  Ocean Engineering, Elsevier (2017)

6.   Member of PhD admissions committee

  Civil Engineering (Coastal, Ports and Marine Structures), IAU (Since 2017)

7.   Member of Research Council

  IAU West Tehran Branch (2017-2021)

8.   Member of scientific committee

  7^th National Congress on Civil Engineering (2013)

9.   Member of World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure (PIANC)

  PIANC-Iran (Since 2019)
 

Academic Services:

     IAU West Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

• Dean of Faculty of Engineering | Since 2021

• Director of Research Affairs | 2019 - 2021

• Head of Civil Engineering Department | 2018 - 2019

• Director of Research Affairs, Faculty of Engineering | 2015 - 2017