Majid Amidpour

Majid Amidpour is a professor of Mechanical and Energy engineering at Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology (KNTU). He is also the head of Niroo Research Institute (NRI), Tehran, Iran.

Education

Amidpour attended the University of Tehran and received his BSc degree in chemical engineering in 1988. Then he moved to the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) and obtained his MSc degree in Energy and Process Integration engineering in 1994. Finally, in 1997, he received his PhD in energy engineering at the University of Manchester, UK.

Career

He is a professor of Mechanical and Energy engineering at Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology (KNTU), Tehran, Iran. School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada (Visiting Professor) (2018)

Majid Amidpour has published more than 370 national and international conference and journal articles; his book "Cogeneration and Polygeneration Systems", which was published by Elsevier Science & Technology, adopts exergetic and thermoeconomic analysis and related modeling and simulation tools to inform performance and systems design in modern cogeneration plants. Because of his scientific efforts, his name has been listed among the world's top 1% scientists by Essential Science Indicators (ESI).