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Ehsan Roohi

(PhD Holder -Lecturer)

Ehsan Roohi (born in Mashhad, Iran, in July 1982) is a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. He has a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the Sharif University of Technology–a flagship Iranian engineering university (with a sabbatical visit to the University of Strathclyde, UK) in 2010. He was a University Professor at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad [1], Xi’an Jiaotong University [2], and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University [3]. He is an expert in direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) techniques and has published several papers on new collision models in DSMC.

Born – Mashhad Iran

Alma mater – Sharif University of Technology
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

Scientific career Institutions – Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Johns Hopkins University University of Maryland Xi’an Jiaotong University Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2010 
M.Sc.Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, 2006
B.Sc.Department of Aerospace Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2004

APPOINTMENTS

2025- NowLecturer, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Aug. 2024-May 2025Associate Professor, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Daytona Beach, FL.
Jan. 2024-May 2024Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, School of Mechanical Engineering, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Sep. 2023-Aug. 2024Research Fellow, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
2019-2023 Associate Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering, International Center for Applied Mechanics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
2015-2019Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
2011-2015Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
2010Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.

ACADEMIC SABBATICAL VISITS

Jul-Sep 2015Visiting Scholar, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Center of Smart Interfaces, Host: Prof. Steffen Hardt supported by DAAD scholarship.
Aug 2015Visiting Scholar, Laboratory of Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy (WIRE), Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, Host: Prof. Fernando Porté-Agel, http://wire.epfl.ch/
Jan 2011Visiting Scholar, Institute of Mechanics, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Host: Prof. Stefan Stefanov, http://www.imbm.bas.bg/index.php/stefan-kanchev-stefanov.
Feb-May 2009 Visiting Student, Multiscale Flow Physics Group, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Strathclyde, UK, Supervisor: Dr. Tom Scanlon.