In February 2020, he joined NRI as a PhD student at the University of Greenwich. Having over five years of relevant experience in market and industry, he is now seeking to boost the innovative practical approaches to tackle the real engineering barriers on reaching sustainable food security in developing countries.

Primary Supervisor: Marcelo Precoppe
Secondary Supervisor(s): Dr Pablo García-Triñanes (External), Professor Michael Bradley (External)

Hamed has a mechanical engineering background in agro-food industry. Previously, he has undertaken BSc, MSc, and PhD in Mechanic of Agricultural Machinery at Urmia University, Iran. Meanwhile, he visited Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy, as a scholar visitor. Throughout his MSc program, he gained substantial knowledge on the mechanical behaviour of particulate material where he implemented Discrete Element Method to model the wheat bulk grains. During his PhD program, he has worked in energy modelling and economic analysis of using renewable energies in agro-food industry sector. It was on adopting solar thermal collectors and photovoltaic panels, respectively, in poultry and dairy farms in the cold climate of Iran.

• Sarnavi HJ, Nikbakht AM, Hasanpour A, Aste N, and Leonforte F. (2019) A Novel Stochastic Energy Analysis of a Solar Air Heater: Case Study in Solar Radiation Uncertainty. Energy Syst 10, 141–161.
• Sarnavi HJ, Nikbakht AM, Hasanpour A, Shahbazi F, Aste N, and Adhikari RA.  (2017) Pragmatic Methodology to Estimate Hourly Energy Demand Profile of a Case Studied Dairy Farm; Primary Step Toward PV Application. INMATEH - Agricultural Engineering; 52(2): 47-54.
• Nikbakht AM, Aste N, Sarnavi HJ, and Leonforte F. (2017) Techno-economic Analysis of Rooftop Grid-connected PV Dairy Farms; Case Study of Urmia University Dairy Farm. IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 83 012004. Rome, Italy.  
• Sarnavi, H.J., Nikbakht, A.M., Shahbazi, F., and Hasanpour, A (2015) A Novel Steady State Analysis Algorithm for
  Annual Thermal Efficiency Modelling of a Flat Plate Solar Air Heater in Urmia Climate. Iranian journal of Energy,
  vol. 54. (in Farsi)
• Sarnavi HJ, Nikbakht AM, Hasanpour A, and Shahbazi F. (2014) “Thermal Performance Evaluation of a Flat Plate Solar Air Heater in Urmia Climate”. Proceedings of the First Joint Iran & Germany Conference on Renewable Energy (IGCRE), Sep 7, 2014. Tehran, Iran.
• Sarnavi HJ, Mohammadi AN, Motlagh AM, and Didar AR. (2013) “DEM Model of Wheat Grains in Storage Considering the Effect of Moisture Content in Direct Shear Test”. Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, 5(03): 829-841.