Dr Maryam Ghodrat
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of New South Wale, UNSW Sydney (2014)
- Master of Engineering ,University of New South Wale, UNSW Sydney (2010)
Dr Maryam Ghodrat is a Senior Lecturer specialised in thermal fluid and energy system with key focus on combustion science for safety and climate change impact on thermal systems. She is leading two research teams Heat Transfer and Combustion and Adaptive Design for Resilient Infrastructures at School of Engineering and Technology, UNSW Canberra with a team of 5 PhD students, one RA and 7 honour students. Her research is interdisciplinary, focusing on the development of robust, scalable, and adaptive strategies to mitigate fire damage to infrastructures through effective design, construction, and use of fire resistance materials.
In 2021, Dr Ghodrat established and leads Pyrometric Laboratory with several dedicated flame behaviour testing equipment to unravel the fundamental behaviour of materials, products and systems exposed to direct and indirect flame. She has also designed a built a modular subsonic combustion wind tunnel for visualisation of flame propagation to assess Wildland Urban Interface fire scenarios.
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- Teaching and Supervision
Chief Investigator (CI) of two competitive Category 1 grants (ARC ITRHs) and two Category 2 grants.
- Goldstar award for 2024, ARC-DP placed top 10%
- Recognized as one of the top 2% of highly cited research scientists in the world by Stanford University and Elsevier (2024).
- Goldstar award for 2023, ARC-DP placed top 10%
- School of Engineering and Technology Publication award for outstanding research outcome in 2022.
- Recognized as one of the top 2% of highly cited research scientists in the world by Stanford University and Elsevier (2023).
- Goldstar award for 2022, ARC-DP placed top 10%
- Best Paper Award, International Conference of Flow Dynamics (ICFD) conference, 2023
- People choice award for my pitch on "Pyrometric Lab" , UNSW Pitch Night, 2023
- Researcher Development Awards for gender equity (WSU)
Current research activities cover four broad and interdisciplinary fields :
Design for Extreme Environment
- Fire Safety and Smart Building
- Infrastructure and community resilience
- Fire Safety of Modular construction
- Built environment and Fire Safety
- Application of data assimilation to risk and disaster management.
- Li-ion batteries and large scale energy storage systems safety
- Fire modeling including CFD and zone modeling;
- Wind Engineering
Emissions and pollution Transport Physics
- Numerical models in predicting atmospheric dispersion of pollutant.
Fire Safety Design
- Performance-based fire safety design
- Design and development of building fire safety strategies.
- Fire Safety analysis of new materials
- Fire Safety design and analysis of timber buildings
- Mitigating fire damage by proper design, construction, arrangement and use of buildings, materials and structures
Decarbonization of Energy Sector
- Hybrid renewable energy systems for net zero energy buildings (Thermodynamic analysis)
- Co Chair and Program lead : Australian Fluid Mechanics Conference, 2024, Canberra , Australia
- Guest Editor , International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow (Proceeding of AFMC34 conference)
- Executive committee of Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Inc. (MSSANZ)
- Scientific committee member of 5th International Conference on Fluid Flow and Thermal Science (ICFFTS 2024), Portugal
- Scientific committee member of International Conference on Fire Safety Engineering Research and Practice (iCFSERP-2024)
- Scientific committee member of 5th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Safety Materials Science and Engineering (2023, Sydney AUS)
- Scientific committee member of Australian Combustion Symposium, 2023, Darwin, NT
- Scientific committee member of Australian Fluid Mechanics Conference, Sydney, 2023
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Mentor in International Association of Wildland Fire
In the Media:
New 'fire lab' to help researchers develop better flame-resistant products (unsw.edu.au)
Warman returns to UNSW Canberra
Memberships
Member of :
- International association for fire safety science
- International Association of Wildland Fire
- Combustion Institute
- Australian Institute of Energy
- Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC)
- Woman in Science and Engineering (WisE)
- Science & Technology Australia
- Women in Engineering @ UNSW
My Research Supervision
- Currently supervising 5 PhD candidates as primary, joint or secondary supervisor.
- PhD graduated at UNSW: 4
Supervision record:
- Supervised 12 Honour theses as Main supervisor.
- Supervised 5 Bachelor of Technology theses.
- Supervised 2 ECRs (PostDoctoral research fellow)
- HDR completions (as main supervisor) in other universities: 4 HDRs
Accepting PhD students.
PhD positions are available for highly motivated candidate in materials , civil or mechanical engineering . Knowledge and experience in working with OpenFOAM software is highly desirable.
Ideal candidates should have:
- A four-year Bachelor's and two-years MSc degrees with high WAMs (minimum of 87%) and research experience from top institutions in the field of Mechanical or civil engineering
- A track record of publications in top-ranked scholarly journals and presentations in peer-reviewed conferences; and,
- Good interpersonal, communication, presentation and writing skills in English.
If you are interested in doing a PhD in my group , please send a copy of PDF combining your CV, Transcripts and English Test Results to m.ghodrat@unsw.edu.au
My Teaching
I have taught in over 12 undergraduate and graduate courses, currently at UNSW and in previous academic roles at other universities