Mission Statement
Welcome to the website of Amir A. Aliabadi. Our group, Atmospheric Innovations Research (AIR) Laboratory, has a passion for environmental thermo-fluid dynamics. An understanding of single and multi-phase fluid mechanics, heat, and mass transfer phenomena can help solve many problems that involve the study of thermo-fluid systems. Some example applications include Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC), energy engineering, indoor and outdoor air quality, atmospheric science, and climate change. We are specialized in analytical methods, simulations, and experiments and aim to integrate relevant research in universities, institutes, laboratories, and industries. We foster collaborations among students, researchers, and professionals in a variety of research projects. We hope you have a pleasant visit here and please contact us with any inquiries.
Research Positions
The Atmospheric Innovations Research (AIR) laboratory at the University of Guelph is hiring M.A.Sc. or Ph.D. students. The position title is "Development of Smart Salt Truck Technology for Improved Road Safety and Protection of Salt Vulnerable Areas". The applicant will primarily develop, run, and post process the results of the open-source Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model. WRF is used to understand the city climate, which is a local set of atmospheric variables that differ from those in the surrounding areas, often slightly but sometimes substantially. For example, in Guelph, hills and valleys, high-rise buildings, and rivers (the Eramosa River and the Speed River flowing through downtown) affect the wind sheltering, shading, ground surface temperature, and humidity. Of particular interest is the location of high and low snow-ice accumulation. Position details and contact information are provided in the attached document.
The Atmospheric Innovations Research (AIR) laboratory at the University of Guelph is hiring a Ph.D. student. The position title is "Neighborhood-City Scales Urban Physics Modeling and Measurements". The overall project pursues understanding and mitigating the growing environmental impact of cities using design and prediction tools, such as Urban Physics Models (UPMs). UPMs predict urban climate variables (outdoor air temperature, wind, precipitation, humidity, evaporation, flooding, and heat transfer fluxes) and building performance variables (energy loads and indoor thermal comfort indices). The Ph.D. student will attempt to 1) develop, improve, and utilize paradigm-shifting and computationally fast atmospheric transport models for neighborhood-city scales and 2) collect urban climate and building performance observation data at neighborhood-city scales. Position details and contact information are provided in the attached document.
The Atmospheric Innovations Research (AIR) laboratory at the University of Guelph is hiring an M.A.Sc. student or a part-time Research Assistant. The position title is "Climate and Air Dispersion Analysis to Understand the Spread of the Avian Influenza Virus in Canada". Understanding and mitigating the spread of Avian Influenza Virus (AIV) in poultry facilities (chicken farms) across Canada is of outmost economic importance. The overall project aims to address this challenge. The applicant will retrieve and analyze a list of chicken farms in which AIV infections have been reported (e.g. in provinces of Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia). The applicant will statistically analyze the infection incidents in relation to environmental variables (e.g. temperature and wind) for the locations and times of interest. The applicant will run air dispersion models to investigate the origins/destinations of the air masses that are involved with infected facilities to identify possible sources for AIV. Position details and contact information are provided in the attached document.
About Amir A. Aliabadi, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Academic Tree
2021-Pres: Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering, U of Guelph, Guelph
2016-2020: Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering, U of Guelph, Guelph
2015-2016: Research Associate, Architecture, MIT, Cambridge
2013-2015: PDF, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Toronto
2012-2013: Research Associate, Chemistry, U of British Columbia, Vancouver
2008-2012: Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, U of British Columbia, Vancouver
2006-2008: M.A.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, U of Toronto, Toronto
2004-2005: Coop Project Engineer, MDA Space Missions Inc., Brampton
2001-2006: B.A.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, U of Toronto, Toronto
1999-2000: Aerospace Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran
1995-1999: Diploma in Mathematics and Physics, Alborz High School, Tehran
