Curriculum vitae

Academic CV of Saeed Salehi: appointments, education, research grants, academic service and invited talks.

A summary of my academic career. The full CV, including the complete publication list and teaching record, is available as a PDF.

Full CV (PDF) Publications Teaching and supervision

Appointments

• Aug 2025 – presentAssociate Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Linköping University
  Division of Applied Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, Department of Management and Engineering
• 2023 – 2025Researcher, Chalmers Industriteknik, based at Chalmers University of Technology
  Artificial intelligence and machine learning in CFD, in the project Artificial Intelligence in Fluid Dynamics for Improving the Lifetime of Hydraulic Turbines
• 2019 – 2023Postdoctoral Researcher, Chalmers University of Technology
  New operating procedures of hydropower for a sustainable energy system: numerical methods in OpenFOAM for transient operation of hydraulic turbines, and reduced-order modelling (POD, DMD)
• 2018 – 2019Lecturer, University of Science and Culture, Tehran

Education and qualifications

• Feb 2026Docent in Fluid Mechanics, Linköping University
  Swedish academic qualification recognising independent scientific and pedagogical competence; supports principal supervision of doctoral students
• 2012 – 2018PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Hydraulic Machinery), University of Tehran
  Thesis: Uncertainty quantification of turbulent flows in hydraulic machinery. Supervisors: Prof. Mehrdad Raisee, Prof. Michel Cervantes, Prof. Ahmad Nourbakhsh
• 2010 – 2012MSc in Mechanical Engineering (Energy Conversion), University of Tehran
  Thesis: Computation of steady and pulsating turbulent flow through a straight asymmetric diffuser with moderate adverse pressure gradient
• 2006 – 2010BSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran
  Thesis: Large eddy simulation of stall development around airfoils
• 2023Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (15 ECTS), Chalmers University of Technology

Research grants

• 2027 – 2031Enabling Flexible Hydropower Operation by AI-Based Active Flow Control
  ÅForsk Foundation, Early-Career Research Grant · 4.0 MSEK · PI · funds a doctoral student at Linköping University
• 2023 – 2027Artificial Intelligence for Enhanced Hydraulic Turbine Lifetime
  Swedish Hydropower Centre (SVC) · 7.4 MSEK · Co-PI (PI: Prof. Håkan Nilsson) · developed the project concept and led the application
• 2023 – 2027Hydropower Operation and Lifetime Analysis
  Swedish Hydropower Centre (SVC) · 5.3 MSEK · Co-PI (PI: Prof. Håkan Nilsson)
• 2023 – 2027Multi-Fidelity Physics-Informed Neural Network to Solve Partial Differential Equations
  Chalmers University of Technology, internal competitive funding · 5.5 MSEK · Co-PI (joint application)

Supervision

• From autumn 2026Doctoral student, Linköping University, principal supervisor
  Enabling flexible hydropower operation by AI-based active flow control
• 2023 – presentMohammad Sheikholeslami, Chalmers University of Technology, co-supervisor
  Multi-fidelity physics-informed neural networks for partial differential equations
• 2023 – 2025Martina Nobilo, Chalmers University of Technology, co-supervisor
  CFD for hydropower lifetime analysis; Licentiate degree 2025
• 2020 – 2024Jonathan Fahlbeck, Chalmers University of Technology, co-supervisor
  Contra-rotating pump-turbines at stationary, transient and cavitating conditions (EU Horizon 2020 project ALPHEUS); PhD 2024

I also supervise MSc and BSc thesis projects; current proposals are listed under Opportunities. Teaching and pedagogical training are described on the Teaching and supervision page.

Academic service

• Jun 2026 – presentSection Editor, OpenFOAM Journal
• 2022 – presentTechnical Committee Member, OpenFOAM Turbomachinery Technical Committee, OpenFOAM Governance
• 2026Session chair, 21st OpenFOAM Workshop, Guimarães (July), and 3rd ERCOFTAC Workshop on Machine Learning for Fluid Dynamics, Amsterdam (March)
• 2024 – 2026Doctoral examination
  External thesis examiner, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2026) · Discussion leader, half-time seminar, Linköping University (2026) · External reviewer, 90% seminar, University of Gävle (2026) · External examiner on defence committee, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2024)
• 2026Grant reviewer, Olle Engkvist Foundation
• OngoingJournal reviewer
  Physics of Fluids, AIAA Journal, Computers & Fluids, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Science Progress, Fluids, Energies, Algorithms, Processes, Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics

Invited talks

• May 2026Towards efficient control of turbulence
  Swedish Society for Industrial Flow and Heat Transfer, Lund
• Feb 2026Engineering applications of computational and data-driven fluid dynamics
  LKAB, Kiruna (online)
• May 2024Artificial intelligence and data-driven algorithms for flow feature extraction and control
  Swedish Society for Industrial Flow and Heat Transfer, Finspång
• Jul 2023Deep reinforcement learning in CFD, implementation in OpenFOAM
  Dutch OpenFOAM User Group meeting
• Jan 2023Invited OpenFOAM expert, OpenFOAM Student Workshop, Delft University of Technology

Skills and languages

• CFD: OpenFOAM (use and development), Fluent, CFX
• Programming and HPC: C++, Python, MATLAB, MPI
• Machine learning: TensorFlow, PyTorch
• Languages: English (fluent), Swedish (fluent), Persian (native)