Dr Nima Izadyar

Nima Izadyar is a Lecturer with the School of Built Environment, College of Sport, Health and Engineering (CoSHE)., Victoria University. His Field of Research is in Building Science and Techniques, focusing on energy-efficient buildings, ventilation, indoor environment quality, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Building Surveying, and renewable energy.

Nima completed his PhD at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 2020. His PhD project focused on reducing cooling demand in medium to high-rise apartments in dominant cooling areas by using natural ventilation as an alternative to mechanical ventilation and air-conditioning. He found the impact of changing balcony design on natural ventilation performance in an indoor area. Nima won Signato Medal 2021 for his PhD achievement and received Executive Dean's Commendation for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Awards. He also won the AIRAH Student of the Year, Higher Education or Research Award 2020, one of Australia's most prestigious awards from the ventilation industry. Nima obtained his Master of Energy Engineering in Iran in 2011. His master's project focused on the optimum design of a District Heating System (DHS) as a natural gas alternative for heating purposes.

Nima worked as a researcher for over five years in different research institutes in Australia and overseas. He was involved in the Affordable Heating and Cooling Innovation Hub (i-Hub) project, funded by AIRAH, as a research associate from February to September 2020. Nima completed two years of research as a research assistant under the High Impact Research (HIR) program at the school of Mechanical Engineering, University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia, between February 2015 and January 2017. During this period, his research focused on harvesting energy from hybrid renewable energy sources (wind and solar) and providing remote areas with cleaner energy as an alternative to diesel generators. Nima also worked on an environmentally friendly lighting system and charging station powered by hybrid energy sources from vertical axis wind turbines and PV cells. He was recognised as a bright spark research assistant because of his research outcomes and publications in high-quality journals.

Nima has two years of industry experience as an energy consultant with Kar-o-Niroo Consulting Co., during which time he focused on energy audits of industrial and commercial buildings based on energy standards (EN16001:2009 and ISO 50001). Nima also worked as a Teaching Assistant, in the Energy Management field, at TUV Academy Iran-Germany from December 2010 to March 2012.