Mohamad Ghaffarian Niasar (Member, IEEE), was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1984. He received an M.Sc. degree from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2015. He is currently an associate professor at the High Voltage Technologies group at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. His main research interests include insulation system of MV/HV power electronics-based equipment, insulation ageing, medium frequency power transformers, partial discharge measurement, power cables, and multi-physics FEM.