Curriculum Vitae

Education, experience, research stays, and technical skills.

Education

  1. 2024 to present

    PhD, Mechanical Engineering

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona

    Research on ground-borne and building vibration, soil-structure interaction, and surrogate models for railway induced vibration prediction. Supervised by Robert Arcos, Arnau Clot, and Alexandre Castanheira-Pinto.

  2. 2019 to 2022

    MSc, Railway Engineering

    Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran

  3. 2015 to 2019

    BSc, Civil Engineering

    Fasa University, Iran

Experience

  1. May to July 2026

    Visiting Researcher

    Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria

    Research stay focused on uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis for ground-borne vibration prediction. Hosted by Gian Marco Melito.

  2. 2024 to present

    Simulation Engineer

    AV Enginyers, Barcelona

    Numerical simulation of railway-induced vibration for infrastructure projects, including Metro de Madrid Line 6 and the Murcia high speed line.

  3. 2023 to present

    Doctoral Researcher

    Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Technical skills

Tools and methods

Simulation

Finite element analysis in Abaqus, boundary and singular boundary methods, soil-structure interaction modelling.

Programming

MATLAB.

Data and uncertainty

Machine learning surrogate models, uncertainty quantification, sensitivity analysis, signal processing, and model calibration against measured data.

Experimental

Experimental vibration measurements, instrumentation, and comparison of measured response against model predictions.

Languages

English, Spanish, and Persian.