Babak Zolghadr-Asli
Postgraduate Researcher
Engineering Streatham
Biography
Babak started his education in water engineering back in 2009 and received his B.Sc. in 2013 from Shiraz University, Iran. He then pursued his education as a water resources engineer and obtained his master's degree from the University of Tehran, Iran in 2017. To this day, he has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in renowned scientific journals, including Nature's Scientific Reports. He also co-authored a book entitled "A Handbook on Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Methods." His most recent project, entitled "Computational Intelligence for Water and Environmental Sciences," was published by Springer in mid-2022, where he served as a co-editor of a book series for "Studies in Computational Intelligence." He also authored a book entitled: "Computational Intelligence-based Optimization Algorithms From Theory to Practice" by CRC Press in 2023.
Babak has received the Outstanding Researcher Award in “the 26th Research Festival”, University of Tehran (2017); Outstanding student award in “the 8th International Festival and Exhibition”, University of Tehran (2018); Outstanding M.Sc. thesis award in “the 5th National Festival of Environment”, Tehran Iran (2018); Winner of the “Prof. Alireza Sepaskhah” 1st Scientific Award in water engineering [Shiraz University] (2019). In addition to these, he has been awarded the Excellent Reviewer, Journal of Hydro Science & Marine Engineering (2020).
Industry
Babak has helped the Faculty of the University of Tehran's water resources engineering department as a Research and Teaching Assistant from Sep. 2016 to March 2021.
Funding
QUEX
Supervisors
Professor Neil McIntyre, Dr Liliana Pagliero, Raziyeh Farmani (Exeter University); and Slobodan Djordjevic (Exeter University).
Social media
Academic/professional
Casual
