Vahid Nik

Vahid is an Associate Professor in Building Physics with the background of Mechanical Engineering, focusing on Energy Conversion and Fluid Dynamics. He was a postdoc at EPFL in Switzerland before starting his faculty position at Lund University in 2014. He also has an Adjunct position at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia, where he collaborates with the Institute for Future Environments (IFE). He leads/supervises projects about future urban energy systems and retrofitting buildings in Sweden and Switzerland. His research interests are impact assessment of climate change on buildings and infrastructures, urban energy systems, integrating renewable energy sources, energy and hygrothermal simulation of buildings, optimization and statistical analysis.

His research interetsts are:

• Impact assessment of climate change
• Energy efficiency in buildings
• Simulation and assessment of the hygrothermal performance of buildings
• Urban physics
• Infrastructure physics
• Energy systems
• Statistical and probabilistic analysis

Companies

• Associate Professor (Affiliated) Chalmers University of Technology (2016)
• Associate Professor Lund University (2014)
• Adjunct Associate Professor QUT (Queensland University of Technology) (2018 — 2021)
• Visiting Researcher QUT (Queensland University of Technology) (2018 — 2018)
• Visiting Researcher National University of Singapore (2018 — 2018)
• Visiting Researcher Georgia Institute of Technology (2016 — 2016)
• Visiting Researcher EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) (2016 — 2016)
• Visiting Researcher EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) (2015 — 2015)
• Secretory & Researcher IEA - Annex 55 (2010 — 2015)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Chalmers University of Technology (2007 — 2012)
• Master of Science (MSc) Chalmers University of Technology (2005 — 2007)
• Master of Science (MSc) Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (2003 — 2005)
• BSc. Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (1997 — 2002)