Hafiz Amin

University Education

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• 2011 - 2018: Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Supervisor: Prof. William Roberts
  • Thesis: Investigating soot morphology in counterflow flames at elevated pressures
• 2008 - 2010: MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• 2003 - 2007: BSc in Mechanical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, Pakistan (with Honours)

Professional Experience

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• Nov 2020 - Present: Lecturer in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering , Teesside University, United Kingdom
• Apr 2018 - Nov 2020: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  • Investigated smoldering combustion and its emissions using Infrared Imaging and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
  • Led the team of five students for GAMBUT 2018 field experiment in Indonesia
  • Analysed infrared images of lab scale and field scale experiments
  • Co-supervised PhD students for planning and conducting experiments
• 2011 - 2018: Graduate Research Assistant, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Designed and built a state of the art pressure vessel and incorporated fused silica windows for wide optical access
  • Prepared 3D-CAD drawings of the experimental set up using SolidWorks
  • Designed a counterflow burner and all the hardware to acquire and store the experimental data
  • Investigated pollutant formation at conditions relevant to gas turbines and diesel engines using light scattering, laser induced incandescence and planar laser induced flourescence
• 2010 - 2011: Fuel Cell Development Research Engineer, Genport s.r.l., Italy
• 2007 - 2008: Production and Maintenance Engineer, British Oxygen Company, Pakistan

Academic Awards

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• 2019: Co-I, Dame Julia Higgins Postdoc Collaborative Research Fund
• 2016,2018: The Combustion Institute Travel Award
• 2011-2018: KAUST Fellowship for PhD studies
• 2010: Funded by Genport S.r.l, Italy for Master Degree thesis
• 2008-2010: Univerlecco Scholarship for master degree at Politecnico di Milano for two years

Teaching and Supervision

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• 2019-Present: Imperial College London: Lecture Heat Transfer to 160 students of ME2. Heat Transfer Tutorials (40 students, 17 hours of tutorial)
• 2018-2019: Imperial College London: Tutorials of Heat Transfer, 2nd year Undergraduate (40 students, 24 hours of tutorial)
• Feb 2018 Clean Combustion Winter School at KAUST: Taught high pressure combustion experiments to graduate students for 18 hours

Lab Management

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• Managed the lab safety for five PhD students at Imperial College London and provided administrative and research support for their research activities
• Assisted students for writing Risk Assessments of new experiments and reviewed the old ones to keep them up to date

Science Outreach

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I voluntarily participate in science outreach as I believe communicating science to a broader community is my responsiblity. Science outreach also provides opportunities to enage with society and can generate excitment and interest in science with the next generation of engineers and the public.I showcased the Hazelab, Imperial College London research activities at Imperial Festival 2018, New Scientist live 2018, Exhibition Road Festival 2019 and New Scientist live 2019. I demonstrated the candle burning phenomenon and fire tornado experiment and highlighted the damage fire whirls can cause to property and people during wildfires. Each event attracted more 20,000 attendees.

Computer Skills

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Comsol Multiphysics, ANSYS, ICEM, MATLAB, SolidWorks, AutoCAD

Journal Paper Reviewed

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2013 - Present Reviewed articles submitted to Meas. Sci. Technol., Combust. Flame, Proc. Comb. Inst., J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf. and J. Energy Inst.

Journal Papers

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10. Muhammad A. Santoso, Wuquan Cui, Hafiz M.F. Amin, Eirik G. Christensen, Yulianto S. Nugroho, Guillermo Rein, Laboratory Study on the Suppression of Smouldering Peat Wildfires: Effects of Flow Rate and Wetting Agent, International Journal of Wildland Fires, 2021 In Press
9. Hafiz M.F. Amin, Yuqi Hu, Guillermo Rein, Spatially resolved horizontal spread in smouldering peat combining infrared and visual diagnostics, Combustion and Flame, 2020 available online (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.06.039)
8. Hafiz M.F. Amin, Anthony Bennett, William L. Roberts, Morphology of soot sampled from N2-diluted methane/air counterflow flames at elevated pressures via TEM imaging, Combustion and Flame, 2020, available online (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.02.017)
7. Hafiz M.F. Amin, William L. Roberts, Investigating soot parameters in an ethane/air counterflow diffusion flame at elevated pressures, Combustion Science and Technology 2020, available online (https://doi.org/10.1080/00102202.2020.1715964)
6. Yuqi Hu, Eirik Christensen, Hafiz M.F. Amin, Thomas Smith and Guillermo Rein, Experimental study of moisture content effects on the transient gas and particle emissions from peat fires, Combustion and flame 2019, available online (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2019.07.046)
5. Hafiz M.F. Amin, William L. Roberts, An experimental apparatus to measure soot morphology at high pressures using multi-angle light scattering, Measurement Science and Technology 2019, available online (https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6501/ab1c3f)
4. Hafiz M.F. Amin, Anthony Bennett, William L. Roberts, Determining fractal properties of soot aggregates and primary particle size distribution in counterflow flames up to 10 atm, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 2018, available online (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2018.07.057)
3. Zepeng Li, Hafiz M.F. Amin, Peng Liu, Yu Wang, Suk Ho Chung, William L. Roberts, Effect of dimethyl ether (DME) addition on sooting limits in counterflow diffusion flames of ethylene at elevated pressures, Combustion and Flame, 2018, available online (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2018.09.003)
2. Anthony Bennett, Hafiz M.F. Amin, Emre Cenker, William L. Roberts, Measurements of pressure effects on PAH distribution and 2D soot volume fraction diagnostics in a laminar non-premixed coflow flame, Energy and Fuels, 2018, available online (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.8b02179)
1. Hafiz M.F. Amin, William L. Roberts, Soot measurements by two angle scattering and extinction in an N2-diluted Ethylene/Air counterflow diffusion flame from 2 to 5 atm, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 2016, available online (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2016.06.044)

International Conferences

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10. Yuqi Hu, Thomas E L Smith, Muhammad Agung Santoso, Hafiz M.F. Amin, Eirik Christensen, Wuquan Cui, Dwi Marhaendro Jati Purnomo, Pither Palamba, Yulianto Sulistyo Nugroho, Guillermo Rein, Emissions from a tropical peatland wildfire experiment: from ignition to spread to suppression, 3rd International Smoke Symposium April 20 - 24, 2020 NC, USA (Accepted)
9. Hafiz M.F. Amin, William L. Roberts, An experimental apparatus to measure soot morphology at high pressures using multi-angle light scattering, 5th Combustion SIG workshop Sep 23 - 24, 2019 University of Oxford
8. Hafiz M.F. Amin, Anthony Bennett, William L. Roberts, Determining fractal properties of soot aggregates and primary particle size distribution in counterflow flames up to 10 atm, 37th International Combustion Symposium, Dublin Ireland, July 29 - August 3 2018
7. Zepeng Li, Peng Liu, Hafiz M.F. Amin, Yu Wang, Suk Ho Chung, William L. Roberts, Effect of dimethyl ether addition on sooting limits in counterflow diffusion flames at elevated pressures, 22nd ETH-Conference on Combustion Generated Nanoparticles. June 18th - 21st 2018, Zurich, Switzerland
6. Hafiz M.F. Amin, William L. Roberts, Multi-angle light scattering for investigating soot particle/aggregate parameters in a counterflow flame at elevated pressures, 10th U.S National Combustion meeting, College Park MD, USA, April 2017
5. Hafiz M.F. Amin, William L. Roberts, Soot measurements by two angle scattering and extinction in an N2-diluted Ethylene/Air counterflow diffusion flame from 2 to 5 atm, 36th International Combustion Symposium, Seoul Korea, July 31 - August 5 2016
4. Hafiz M.F. Amin, William L. Roberts, Effect of pressure on morphological parameters of soot in a counterflow diffusion flame, International Sooting flame workshop 3, Seoul Korea, July 2016
3. Hafiz M.F. Amin, William L. Roberts, Effects of pressure on soot parameters in an ethane/air counterflow diffusion flame, Proceedings of World Congress on Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer (MHMT’16), April 4-5, 2016, Prague, Czech Republic
2. Hafiz M.F. Amin, William L. Roberts, Soot measurements in a N2-diluted Ethylene/Air counterflow diffusion flame at elevated pressures, Proceedings of the Australian Combustion Symposium, December 7-9, 2015, The University of Melbourne
1. Hafiz M.F. Amin, S.A. Steinmetz, Emre Cenker, William L. Roberts, Effect of pressure on morphological parameters of soot in counterflow diffusion flame, 9th U.S National Combustion meeting, Cincinnati Ohio, USA, May 17-20, 2015