Majid Bahrami
PhD, P.Eng., FASME, FCAE
Professor
Canada Research Chair in Alternative Energy Conversion Systems, Tier 1
Fellow of ASME,
Fellow of
CAE
Member of
AIAA,
SAE,
ASHRAE
School of Mechatronic
Systems Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science
Simon Fraser University
250-13450 102 Avenue
Surrey, BC, V3T 0A3, Canada
Office: Galleria 4, Room 4164
Laboratory: 190A SFU Surrey
Tel.: +1 (778) 782-8538
Fax: +1 (778) 782-7514
e-mail: mbahrami [at] sfu [dot] ca
Video Tours:
- Lab. for Alternative Energy Conversion
- Faculty of Applied Science (SFU)
| February 2025 | MaRS Discovery District published interview with Professor Bahrami discussing how waste heat can help meet our growing energy demand |
| March 2024 | RBC’s Climate Champion team visited LAEC laboratory at SFU |
| August 2021 | Magazine Drishti published news about Professor Bahrami |
| June 2021 | New program to address critical skills need for sustainable energy future. NSERC CREATE Hybrid Thermal Electric Microgrid (HyTEM) program offers courses, seminars, workshops, and tours |
| June 2021 | Congratulations to Maha Shehadeh for completing her Master's |
| June 2021 | PICS Snapshot: Innovations in Mobile Thermal Energy Storage - Using Waste Heat to Power Communities |
| June 2021 | Congratulations to Mohammad-javad (MJ) Rajabtabar for completing his Master's |
| September 2020 | Congratulations to Hesam Bahrehmand for completing his doctorate |
| June 2020 | Congratulations to Martin Cermak for completing his doctorate |
| September 2019 | Congratulations to Negar Mohammadaliha for completing her Master's |
| September 2019 | Congratulations to Zhongchen Zhang for completing his Master's |
| July 2019 | Congratulations to Mina Rouhani for completing her doctorate |
| June 2019 | Congratulations to Sara (Ecem) Cerrah for completing her Master's |
| June 2019 | Professor Bahrami was inducted to The Canadian Academy of Engineering |
| April 2019 | Congratulations to Ali Malekian for completing his doctorate |
| December 2018 | Congratulations to Mohammad Ahadi for completing his doctorate |
| December 2018 | Congratulations to Sina Salari for completing his doctorate |
| November 2018 | Congratulations to Mikel Garcia-Poulin for completing his Master's |
| September 2018 | Congratulations to Poovanna Cheppudira for completing his doctorate |
| October 2018 | BCIC ignite: Next Generation Cooling Solutions for High-Capacity Battery Chargers of Electric Vehicles |
| May 2018 | Waste Heat: Innovators Turn to an Overlooked Renewable Resource |
| May 2017 | LAEC and KPU are awarded a NSERC "College University Idea to Innovation" grant for their project From Waste to Clean Food |
| November 2016 | LAEC is in the Globe and Mail |
| November 2016 | Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier Clark visited SFU and tried water from our HAWGen machine |
| October 2016 | Dr. Bahrami gave a President's Faculty Lecture on October 12, 2016 |
| September 2016 | Congratulations to Dr. Bahrami on being named one of Canada's Clean50 for 2017 |
| July 2016 | Engineering Net-Zero Impact |
| June 2016 | Congratulations to Mahdi Nemati for completing his MASc |
| May 2016 | Dr. Bahrami's interview with Julie Rose on byuradio |
| May 2016 | HAWGen in Business in Vancouver |
| May 2016 | Dr. Bahrami's with Kirk LaPointe on Roundhouse Radio |
| April 2016 | CBC Vancouver's coverage of the HAWGen (starting at 4:54) |
| April 2016 | BCTIA announces that Watergenics is a finalist for the Most Promising Pre-Commercial Technology Award |
| March 2016 | Congratulations to Masoud Labbani for completing his MASc |
| March 2016 | Congratulations to Farshid Bagheri for completing his PhD |
| March 2016 | Congratulations to Ali Soleymani for completing his MASc and on being hired as a Stack Powertrain Interface Engineer at AFCC |
| March 2016 | Watergenics if one of Ready to Rocket's 2016 Cleantech Emerging Rockets |
| March 2016 | SFU invention stepping out of the lab |
| March 2016 | Congratulations to Maryam Yazdan Pour for her new position as a Test and Verification Engineer at Corvus Energy Limited |
| November 2015 | Congratulations to Mohammad Ali Fayazbakhsh for completing his PhD |
| November 2015 | Congratulations to Mehdi Andisheh for completing his PhD |
| October 2015 | Congratulations to Amir Sharafian for his new position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Clean Enery Research Centre - Transportation Futures Division at the University of British Columbia |
| October 2015 | Congratulations to Amir Sharafian for completing his PhD |
| September 2015 | SFU congratulates Dr. Majid Bahrami on being awarded "Canada's Clean50 for 2016" |
| September 2015 | Congratulations to Mohsen Akbari for his new position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria |
| September 2015 | Congratulations to Hamidreza Sadeghifar for his new position as a Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow in Prof. Bi's laboratory in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at UBC |
| July 2015 | Congratulations to Mohammad Fakoor Pakdaman for his new position as an Assistant Instructor at BCIT |
| July 2015 | Congratulations to Mohammad Fakoor Pakdaman for completing his PhD |
| July 2015 | LAEC welcomes Dr. Ali Dabiri as a new Postdoc and Pouya Jamzad as a new M.Sc student |
| July 2015 | Congratulations to Maryam Yazdanpoor for finishing her PhD |
| May 2015 | Congratulations to Mehdi Andisheh for joining Ballard Power Systems as an Applied Scientist |
| May 2015 | Congratulations to Golnoush Mostafavi, a former LAEC MASc student, for joining CopperTree Analytics as an Application Engineer |
| June 2015 | Congratulations to Dr. Mohsen Akbari, a former PhD student and Post-doc fellow at LAEC who landed a faculty position at the Mechanical Engeineering Department of UVic as an Assistant Professor |
| June 2015 | Congratulations to Dr. Hamidreza Sadeghifar for finishing his PhD |
| June 2015 | Congratulations to Dr. Mehran Ahmadi for finishing his PhD |
| June 2015 | Dr. Bahrami awarded a $750K 3-year NSERC CU-I2I grant entitled " Graphite Thermal Management Products Improved" |
| January 2015 | LAEC welcomes Jaber Eslami as a visiting PhD student as well as Martin Cermak and Ali Malakian as new PhD students |
| December 2014 | Congratulations to Mehran Ahmadi for completing his PhD |
| December 2014 | Congratulations to Mehran Ahmadi for completing his PhD |
| November 2014 | Congratulations to Ningbai Ningbai for completing her MASc |
| August 2014 | Congratulations to Mayank Kalra on completing his MASc |
| August 2014 | Congratulations to Ali Gholami on completing his MASc |
| May 2014 | Dr. Bahrami is awarded a four-year NSEARC collaborative research grant with the Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation (AFCC) to study the bulk and interfacial transport properties of porous fuel cell materials |
| March 2014 | LAEC welcomes Behzad Baghaour, as a new Postdoc |
| January 2014 | LAEC welcomes Mohammad Ahadi, as a new PhD student and Ali Soleymani, as a new MASc student |
| November 2013 | Dr. Bahrami is awarded an equipment grant in Alternative Energy Conversion Systems by CFI |
| October 2013 | Dr. Bahrami is awarded a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Alternative Energy Conversion Systems |
| September 2013 | LAEC welcomes Sina Salari, Mina Rouhani and Atiyeh Hoseini as new PhD student, and Mahdi Nemati and Brandon Ingraham as new MASc students |
| May 2013 | LAEC welcomes Poovanna Thimmaiah and Khorshid Fayazmanesh, as new PhD students |
| April 2013 | LAEC welcomes Dr. Wendell Huttema, our new lab engineer |
| April 2013 | Welcome Dr. Claire McCague to LAEC |
| March 2013 | Welcome Dr. Protiva Roy to LAEC |
| September 2012 | Dr. Bahrami is awarded a four-year NSERC collaborative research grant with Alpha Technologies for design and development a new hybrid cooling technology for telecommunication industry |
| September 2012 | Welcome Ali Gholami who joined LAEC as a M.Sc. student |
| September 2012 | Welcome Dr. Brian Fraser to LAEC |
| September 2012 | Congratulations to Setareh Shahsavari, former LAEC M.Sc. student, for starting her PhD program in MIT |
| July 2012 | Dr. Bahrami receives a major research funding from Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) to develop the next generation of green sustainable air conditioning and refrigeration systems for service vehicles |
| July 2011 | LAEC welcomes Mr. Marius Haiducu, our new lab engineer |
| March 2011 | Future Vehicle Technologies and Dr. Bahrami started one of the pioneering R&D projects on thermal management of hybrid electric vehicles, funded by Automotive Partnership Canada (APC) |
| January 2011 | Congratulations to Dr. Ali Tamayol, a former LAEC PhD student, for receiving the prestigeous NSERC post-doctoral scholarship |
| September 2011 | Congratulations to Dr. Mohsen Akbari, a former LAEC PhD student, for receiving the prestigeous NSERC post-doctoral scholarship |
| September 2011 | Congratulations to Dr. Ehsan Sadeghi, a former LAEC PhD student, for joining Dr. Eikerling group and Automotive Fuel Cell Corporation (AFCC) as a post-doctoral fellow |