Dr Abolfazl Ahmadi has been a member of the academic staff in the Department of Energy Systems Engineering (School of Advanced Technologies (New Technologies), Iran University of Science and Technology) since 1992. He obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Sheffield University in the UK. He earned a BSc degree from Ferdousi Mashhad University and an MSc degree from the Sharif University of Technology in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include energy system optimization.