Omid Rahmani is a full professor in the mechanical engineering faculty and the vice president for research and technology at ZNU. Prior to joining ZNU, he served as visiting researcher at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is also the Director of Smart Structures and New Advanced Materials Laboratory. Prof. Rahmani has 20 years of experience in a broad range of composites for industrial applications. Rahmani's research activities are focused on Composite and Sandwich Structures, Nano Mechanics, Mechanical Behavior of Metamaterials, Functionally Graded Materials, Smart and Adaptive Structures, Vibration Behavior of Advanced Materials, Nonlinear Dynamics, Experimental Mechanics and Low Velocity Impact Response of Light Weight Structures. He has been author and coauthor of about 110 papers on the above topics, most of which have been published in first rate international journals. Some of these works have been recognized as Highly Cited papers (Top 1%) by Thompson Reuters in Engineering and Materials fields. Rahmani, in a close collaboration with Prof. Ole Thybo Thomsen and Prof. Khalili, has introduced the High order Sandwich Shell Theory, HSAST, as a natural extension of the Higher order Sandwich panels Theory (HSAPT). He serves on the scientific committee of International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration (ISAV) since 2012. Prof. Rahmani was awarded the Distinctive Researcher of University (2016 & 2020) and was also recognized as the Distinctive Professor of University i