Sean Pourazadi
Assistant Professor
Canterbury University
New Zealand
Biography
Sean is Assis/Prof. at the Department of Chemical& Process Engineering of Canterbury University, NZ with experience and backgrounds in Bioengineering, mathematical modelling, energy and sustainability. He did both his B.S and M.S at the School of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering of Shiraz University, Iran and is a PhD graduate of The Laboratory for Sustainable Technology at Sydney University, Australia. For a couple of years his focus was mainly on improving the performance of key-naphtha reformers at oil refineries and later shifted his research and attention to nano-material development for sustainable energy applications. He has work experience in gas companies and strong devotion and passion to industries. Sean has been the author and co-author of several research papers and also peer reviewer for AIChE, International Journal of Energy Research, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering and others.
Research Interest
Currently his researches and interests include: (i) Material synthesis for sustainable energy conversion and storage (ii) Electrocatalysis (iii) Printing technology for electronic devices (iv) Mathematical modelling and optimization of chemical, petrochemical processes (v) Biofuel and biodiesel (vi) Bioengineering for protein extraction