Dr. Saeid Jalilinasrabady is an Associate Professor at Kyushu University in Japan, with research interests in geothermal energy and its sustainable development.
Dr. Saeid received his Ph.D. from Kyushu University of Japan in Geothermal engineering in 2011, and then he was a prestigious JSPS Postdoctoral fellow of JSPS for two years. Since then he was Assistant Professor of Kyushu University (2014) and Associate Professor of Akita University (2014-2017). Since 2017, as an Associate Professor, he is managing his research team at the Energy Resource Engineering laboratory of Kyushu University with students at undergraduate and graduate levels. Feasibility studies of geothermal direct utilization, optimization of geothermal power plants coupled with reservoir simulation and future production prediction, hybrid geothermal systems, hybrid renewable energy systems, and life cycle assessment for thermal power plant are examples of his current research topics. He is teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels in Kyushu University in topics related to renewable energies, optimization, and fundamentals. He is also a lecturer at the JICA-Kyushu Geothermal training program and every year he supervises a few students for their final project. Dr. Saeid is an editorial board member of “The Geothermal Research Society of Japan” and a topic editor for the MDPI Energies journal. He has worked as a Civil Engineer at the early stages of the Sabalan geothermal project in Iran for 6 years in consultancy and development companies. He completed the 6-month geothermal training in Iceland in 2004 and obtained his Master’s degree in geothermal engineering from the University of Iceland in 2008. He has been involved with geothermal for over two decades.