Dr. Amir Safari is a professor (assoc.) of mechanical engineering and senior international advisor and research group leader for research, innovation, and business development in energy management.
He received his BSc and MSc degrees, both in Mechanical Engineering, from Iran University of Science and Technology-IUST. He has a diversified experience in intelligent control, monitoring, and operation optimization of thermal power plants when he has been a senior R&D engineer in Mapna Group in Iran. In 2010, he joined Dept. of Mechanical & Structural Engineering at the University of Stavanger-UiS for his PhD study in computer simulation driven design optimization; working on development of sophisticated optimization techniques and algorithms for high-dimensional, expensive, black-box engineering problems. Then he has been Assistant Professor and a 3-year postdoc in energy system integration, optimization, operation, and management in Dept. of Energy & Petroleum Technology at the UiS. Amir has also been Adjunct Associate Professor in Energy Informatics for 2 years at Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.
In 2017, with an extensive background from energy management, he has founded and established Energiring Group in Stavanger/Oslo, Norway. The company's main fields of activity include smart buildings, energy efficiency, distributed generation, small/micro onsite poly-generation, renewable power plants, energy management, and energy informatics.
Currently, Amir is Professor in Mech. Eng. and Energy Systems at the University of South-Eastern Norway-USN, in Kongsberg (2020-to date).
Responsibilities
Amir's focus in his position at USN is to:
- Teach Mechanical Engineering Design, Manufacturing Technology, and Fluid Mechanics (BSc level), as well as Engineering Optimization and Renewable Energy Systems (MSc level).
- Lead research group for Energy Systems and Advanced Materials (campus Kongsberg).
- Contribute in graduate and undergraduate students' supervision, course/programme development, Norwegian/EU research and innovation applications, international multilateral collaboration, and implementation and coordination of interdisciplinary energy projects associated with management, sustainable development, artificial intelligence, and digitalization.
Competences
- Entrepreneurship and business development
- RD&D project and innovation management
- Energy transition and sustainable development
- Mechanical design and optimization
- Development of global optimization methodologies/algorithms for high-dimensional/large-scale complex problems in engineering
- Energy efficiency and system integration; both supply and demand sides
- Renewable/clean energy technologies; Geothermal and solar energy
- Gas (natural, bio-, hydrogen) technology
- Energy informatics and cyber-physical systems
- Energy management, smart communities, and energy hubs
- Techno-economy and social integration evaluation for energy system of future
CV
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