Prof. Mahmood Fotoohi Firoozabad has been elected as a fellow of the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Born in 1959 in Firoozabad, Yazd, Prof. Fotoohi holds a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. He is currently a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology as well as an associate fellow and chairman of the Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Academy of Sciences of IR Iran.
Prof. Fotoohi’s major administrative positions include: head of the IEEE Iran Section and chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology. He was also the president of Sharif University of Technology from 2014 to 2021.
Prof. Fotoohi’s major honors and awards:
- Member of the IEEE Iran Section
- IEEE Fellow
- Selection of doctoral thesis as the best among all of those written in the fields of science, engineering and medicine from 1996 to 1998 at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- World Elite Support Organization Gold Medal Award
- 16th Khwarizmi International Award
- Outstanding researcher in engineering sciences of the country in 2012
- Allameh Tabatabai Scientific Award of the National Elite Foundation in 2013
- Exemplary professor of the country in 2021
