Mohammad Mehdi RashidiMohammad Mehdi Rashidi is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, in the Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, in Chengdu, China. He completed his Ph. D in Mechanical Engineeringfrom Tarbiat Modares University, Iran in 2002 and then went on to pursue his professional career at Bu Ali Sina University in Iran until 2014. He then took up the position of full professor at Tongji University in Shanghai until the end of 2016 and following a short tenure at the University of Birmingham, UK he returned to Tongji University in December 2018.

He has held numerous invited positions at international universities including the University of Sherbrooke in Canada; the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa; the Universite Paris Ouest in France, and King Mongkut's University of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. He has published over 345 journal articles and 50 conference papers. He is an associate editor for more than five international journals and is an active member of the editorial boards for more than 45 national or international journals.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Institute of High Energetic Materials and is an active member of the South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering, and the Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers. His research interests include energy, energy generation, conversion and storage engineering, entropy, heat transfer, mechanical engineering, nonlinear analysis, and thermodynamics. Read More Read Less