OVERVIEW

Mahdiyeh is currently a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the MaREI Centre, University College Cork, where she is involved in experimental campaigns and industry collaborations in offshore wind and ocean energy projects.

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

Mahdiyeh is currently working on the AtlanticFloat project, funded by SEAI, where she analyses experimental data from offshore wind energy devices to support design and validation efforts. She is also involved in an SEAI/SLA project, carrying out numerical simulation analyses of marine renewable devices as part of Ireland’s Ocean Energy programme in partnership with UCC.

BACKGROUND

Mahdiyeh Farajvand received her B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (2016) and M.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering (2019) from the University of Tabriz, Iran, where her research focused on wave energy systems. She completed her Ph.D. at Centre for Ocean Energy Research (COER) in Electronic Engineering (2024) at Maynooth University, Ireland, with expertise in hydrodynamic modelling and uncertainty quantification of wave energy devices.

She also worked as an R&D Engineer at Foolad Gharb Company, Tabriz, Iran (2019–2020), where she led product development projects and contributed to two patent submissions.