Research Officer at the Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE 2020) project, College of Engineering, Swansea University, 2017-2019.
Erasmus Mundus Research Fellow at Zienkiewicz Center for Computational Engineering (ZCCE), College of Engineering, Swansea University, UK and Laboratori de Càlcul Numèric (LaCàN), Universitat Politèchnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), Spain, 2014-2016.
Master Thesis Student at Transport and Propulsion Systems Department, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Bremen, Germany, 2013.
Internee at Transport and Propulsion Systems Department, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Bremen, Germany, 2012.
Research Assistant at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2011.
Management Trainee at Fauji Fertilizer Bin Qasim Limited (FFBL), Karachi, Pakistan, 2010.
Academic qualifications
Doctoral of Philosophy in computational mechanics (Joint Erasmus Mundus SEED program) from Swansea University, UK and Universitat Politèchnica de Catalunya (UPC BarcelonaTech), Spain, 2014-2018. Thesis entitled: “An upwind cell centred Finite Volume Method for large strain explicit solid dynamics in OpenFOAM ”.
Master of Science in computational mechanics (Joint Erasmus Mundus MCM program) from Universität Stuttgart, Germany and UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain, 2011-2013. Thesis entitled: “Numerical modelling of evaporation and condensation phenomena”.
Bachelor of Engineering in mechanical discipline from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) with the thesis entitled: “CFD and experimental study of flow over cylindrical fins”.
Honours and Awards
Excellent Cum Laude (Distinction) awarded for doctoral thesis at UPC BarcelonaTech, Spain, 2018.
Best Student Paper awarded for the article “Large strain solid dynamics in OpenFOAM” at the 4th Annual OpenFOAM User Conference conducted by ESI group, Cologne, Germany, 2016.
Awarded by the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) to present in the World Congress in Computational Mechanics (WCCM), Seoul, South Korea, 2016.
Full scholarship awarded by the European Commission for Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (SEED), 2014-2017.
Full scholarship awarded by the European Commission for Erasmus Mundus Master Course (MCM), 2011-2013.
Presidents Gold Medal awarded for achieving the highest Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3.75/4.00 in the Mechanical Engineering batch during the undergraduate degree, 2009.
Rectors Gold Medal awarded for undertaking the best undergraduate thesis, 2009.
Awarded 2nd position by the Institution of Engineers Pakistan (IEP) for undergraduate thesis at the 4th International Mechanical Engineering Congress, 2009.
Scholarship awarded during undergraduate studies for achieving semester Grade Point Average (GPA) in excess of 3.5/4.0 for six consecutive semesters, 2006-2009.
