About

Position

Associate Professor in Geosciences

Earth Sciences • Hydrogeology

Roles & Responsibilities

• •Lab director at Multiscale Porous Media Lab
• •Leader of Structures of Strength (SoS) platform for Unusual Collaborations
• •Alumni of the Utrecht Young Academy
• •Affiliated researcher at University of Stuttgart
• •A member Sustainability strategic themes of Utrecht University
• •Sultan Qaboos Chair of Quantitative Water Management

Research

Amir performs research on fundamentals of flow and transport in porous media applied to transport of fluids, colloids, and reactive chemical components in the shallow and deep subsurface. He applies multi-scale and multi-disciplinary approaches to integrate microscopic experimental observations with numerical methods. This is done using the cutting-edge computational and experimental facilities present in the Multiscale Porous Media Lab. To simulate a wide range of flow and reactive transport processes, Amir has developed a pore-scale modelling platform, Poreflow, to enable simulating multi-component reactive transport under saturated and multi-phase flow conditions.

Interdisciplinarity

To make a broader impact and outreach, Amir applied his geo-driven knowledge in a highly interdisciplinary manner to other disciplines. The generated fundamental knowledge on flow and transport in porous materials are applied to solve challenging problems in other research fields related to biological tissues and membranes such as bone and cartilage, as well as industrial materials such as filters, fuel cells, printing papers and catalyst particles.