Hashem akbari biography examples

Iranian-American academic

Hashem Akbari (born 13 August 1949) is an Iranian-American professor of Architectural, Civil and Environmental engineering at Concordia University.

Hashem akbari biography examples

He specializes in research on the effects of urban heat islands, cool roofs, asphalt paving materials, and energy efficiency in building.

Biography

Akbari was born in Iran. He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979.^[1] He became a U.S.

citizen in 1991.^[2] He was a senior scientist and the leader of the Heat Island Group at Environmental Energy Technologies Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1983 to 2009.

In 1985, he founded the Urban Heat Island (UHI) group, where he worked in the areas of heat-island quantification and mitigation. In 2009, he joined Concordia University, Canada, where he founded a laboratory to measure solar spectral reflectance