Mohamad Zalzale
Colleges, School and Institutes
Research interests
Computational physics, computational fluid dynamics, porous media, lattice Boltzmann
Biography
Dr Mohamad Zalzale is a Lecturer at the School of Engineering.
Mohamad is an interdisciplinary scientist. He holds a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and an MSc in Computational Physics from the Montpellier University in France.
Mohamad teaches a variety of courses in the Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science programs and his research revolves around the use of computational physics to solve engineering problems.
Prior to joining the University of Birmingham in Dubai, Mohamad worked as a research scientist and project manager in the Oil and Gas industry in Norway and Kuwait, and as a Materials Engineering research and teaching assistant at EPFL in Switzerland.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Materials Science and Engineering
1 Feb 2011 - 31 Jul 2014Master in Science, University of Montpellier
Computational Physics
1 Sep 2008 - 31 Aug 2010Bachelor of Science
Fundamental Physics
1 Sep 2005 - 30 Jun 2008
Willingness to take PhD students
Yes