Dr Shahin Jalili

Biography

Shahin is a multi-disciplinary researcher, with work experience in a variety of areas including, structural optimisation, transport decarbonisation, offshore wind energy, and energy transition. He is currently a Research Fellow in Optimisation, Decision-Making, and Simulation at the National Decommissioning Centre (NDC). He works on the Data for Net Zero (D4NZ) project funded by the Scottish Government’s Energy Transition Fund through the Net Zero Technology Centre (NZTC). He joined the School of Engineering of the University of Aberdeen in early 2020 as a Research Fellow to work on the DecomTools project. Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the department of computer science at the University of Exeter working on the transport decarbonisation.

With a close collaboration with industry, he has developed multi-criteria decision-making tools for offshore energy projects to inform the decision-making process performed by stakeholders. The new decision-making tools assess the economic, environmental, safety, technical, and societal impacts of offshore energy projects in the North Sea region. His research interests also focus on problems that link engineering, computer science, and mathematical science, with particular emphasis on optimisation methods and numerical algorithms. He has developed a series of numerical approaches for various optimisation problems in different branches of engineering, ranging from optimum design problems of skeletal and composite structures to performance optimisation of traffic transportation networks. He has also worked on the mathematical aspects of finite element analysis and developed new structural and sensitivity reanalysis formulations to reduce computational complexity.

Research Overview

- Oil and Gas Decommissioning: Decision-Making, Decarbonisation, Cost optimisation, Environmental assessment

- Offshore Wind Farms: Life-cycle cost modelling, logistic optimisation, Environmental assessment

 - Composite Structures: Applications of bio-fibres for low-carbon designs, Multi-objective optimum composite design

- Structural Reanalysis: Static, nonlinear, vibrational, and sensitivity

- Green Transportation: Traffic signal timing optimisation, Emissions and congestion reductions in transportation networks

- Structural Optimisation: Building design optimisation for international codes, Structural layout optimisation

- Structural Modal Analysis: Substructuring and dynamic condensation techniques

- Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning, Meta-heuristics, Hyper-heuristics, Probabilistic Modelling

Collaborations

• Shell, UK
• ORE Catapult, UK
• Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Netherlands
• Rotech, UK
• Offshore Energy UK (OEUK)
• National Decommissioning Centre, Newburgh, UK
• City Science, Exeter, UK
• University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Emden, Germany
• Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Hamburg, Germany
• Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Haugesund, Norway
• Marine Scotland, UK
• Energy Valley, Netherlands
• Offshore Energy, Denmark
• Port of Oostende, Oostende, Belgium
• The West Flanders Development Agency (POM West Flanders), Belgium
• Port of Grena, Grenaa, Denmark
• Lauwershorst Group, Netherlands
• Virol Metaal B.V., Netherlands
• Samsoe Kommune, Denmark

Teaching Responsibilities

EP4515 Geomechanics: Main contributor,  10 credit course, Level 4 BEng Petroleum Engineering Students.