Dariush Zare

Dariush Zare is working as a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Food Innovation, College of Sciences and Engineering. He is now focusing on an advanced food industry project entitled "Digital Twin of an Industrial Scale Microwave-Assisted Thermal Sterilization (MATS) System". His primary role is to develop the multi-physics process simulation using finite element analysis in COMSOL Multiphysics. The other targe is the application of machine learning and AI to control process optimisation in real time. In collaboration with industry partners and other institutions, he works to advance Industry 4.0-driven food processing technologies.
Biography

He is working as a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Food Innovation. Before joining to the University of Tasmania he worked as a Professor in the Department of Mechanics of Biosystems Engineering at Shiraz University.

Based on his experience in teaching and research, he has expertise in engineering design including process simulation (heat and mass transfer), applied thermodynamics, and application of different numerical methods (Finite difference method, Finite Element Methods, CFD) for system design and optimization. He has extensively designed and developed new technologies in food and bioprocessing such as plasma, RF, infrared, ultrasonic, microwave and solar thermal systems as well as different grain dryers, handling and storage systems.
He has supervised 20 master theses and five Ph.D. dissertations and have over 100 publications in top peer-reviewed journals and international world conferences.
He is currently a board member of Technical Section IV (Energy) of the CIGR, one of the world’s leading professional bodies in Biosystems Engineering.
He also serves on the Editorial Board of the top-tier Q1 Elsevier journal, "Biosystems Engineering".

International Research Experience

Honorary Visiting Professor, School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Feb 2022-July 2022.

Assistant Professor-Professor, Mechanics of Biosytems Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, 2007-2022.

Visiting Associate Professor, Sabbatical Leave in Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering, University of South Australia, Adeliade, “Dimensional Analysis of Grain Flow in On-Farm Silo”, 2018-2019.

Visiting Associate Professor, ABE Department, Purdue University, USA, Summer 2013.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Sabbatical Leave in Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada, “A Generalized-dimensionless model for Deep Bed Grain Dryers”, Summer 2010.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Center for Engineering in Agriculture (NCEA), University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), “Climate-based Computer Simulation Model to Reduce Wheat Harvest Losses in Australia”, 2006-2007.

Qualifications
Ph.D., Mechanical & Biosystems Engineering, TMU, Tehran, Iran, 2006.
Master of Eng., Mechanical and Biosystems Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, 2002.
Bachelor of Eng., Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, 2000.

Languages (other than English)
Persian

Memberships

Committee associations
International Biosystems Engineering (CIGR)

International Solar Energy Society
Australian Food Engineering Association
Australian Society for Engineering in Agriculture (SEAg)
Iranian Society of Biosystems Engineering

Administrative expertise
Head of Mechanics of Biosystems Engineering Department, Shiraz University, 2016-2018.
Board Member of CIGR (International Commission of Biosystems Engineering) Section IV: Energy, Since 2014.
Head of Center for Testing and Standardisation of Agricultural Machinery and Food Processing Equipment, Shiraz University, 2014-2016.
Vice President of Iranian Society of Biosystems Engineering, 2016-2022.
Member of International Solar Energy Society.
Committee Member of Course Planning and Education, Shiraz University, 2013-2020.
Committee Member of Graduate Studies, Shiraz University, 2007-2011.