Saeed Moghaddam

Knox T. Millsaps Associate Professor · University of Florida · company speakers →

Dr. Saeed Moghaddam is Knox T. Millsaps Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Florida. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2006. Before joining the University of Florida in 2010, he was a postdoc in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at UIUC (2007-2010). His academic background is in micro/nanoscale transport, interfacial science, micro/nanoengineering, and ionic liquid membrane-based absorption process. Dr. Moghaddam has made significant contributions in the field of phase-change heat transfer through invention of a new measurement technique that has enabled resolving the thermal field at the interface of a heated wall and a boiling liquid with unprecedented spatial and temporal resolutions. This work has led to addressing decades old fundamental questions regarding the underlying physics of the process at microscales. Dr. Moghaddam is also the inventor of semi-open absorption cycle that has been successfully tested in ORNL in 2017. He has developed the world’s first membrane-based IL hybrid absorption cycle for energy efficient exchange of latent and sensible heats. Dr. Moghaddam’s work on nanoengineered membranes and their transport characteristics has been highlighted in Nano Science and Technology Institute (NIST) Innovation Spotlight, Nature Nanotechnology, New Scientist magazine, Heat Pumping Technologies Magazine and 2010 Guinness World Records. His research is published in nearly 100 peer-reviewed papers, 14 patents and one book chapter. Dr. Moghaddam’s research has been supported by ARPA-A, DARPA, DOE, NSF, ONR, NIH, SRC, ORNL, and private companies.

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