Born in Yazd, a small historic city at the geographic center of Iran, Reza received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering and MSc in Applied Mechanics from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. He then joined the Mechanical Engineering program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. He received his Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2005, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2008, and then served as a Postdoctoral associate (2008-2009) and Lecturer (2009-2011) at MIT. In July 2011 Reza joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.
PI: Mohammad-Reza Alam, PhD
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
American Bureau of Shipping Chair in Ocean Engineering
Research Interests:
Theoretical Fluid Dynamics,
Ocean Renewable Energy,
Ocean and Coastal Waves Phenomena,
Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear dynamics,
Fluid Flow Control,
Positions Held:
American Bureau of Shipping Endowed Chair in Ocean Engineering, 2017-
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, 2017-
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley, 2011-2017.
Lecturer, MIT, 2009-2011.
