Agha Mirsalim
Mojtaba Agha-Mirsalim was born on February 14, 1956, in Tehran, Iran, to Jalal Agha-Mirsalim and Kobra Pourjavadi. Tehran, Iran's capital and principal center of higher education, government, and industry, provided the geographic setting for his later academic and professional career.
Agha-Mirsalim received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1978 and a Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering there in 1980. Berkeley is a major American research university whose engineering programs developed within the scientific and technological environment of the San Francisco Bay Area.
He completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering at Oregon State University in Corvallis in 1986. Oregon State, founded as a land-grant institution, combines engineering education with applied scientific research and served as the setting for his doctoral preparation in electrical engineering.
Agha-Mirsalim began his academic career at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a teaching assistant from 1977 to 1978 and a teaching associate from 1978 to 1980. Berkeley's engineering school is a research-oriented institution with long-standing work in electrical, nuclear, and applied engineering disciplines.
From 1980 to 1986, he served as a teaching and research assistant at Oregon State University while completing his doctoral education. In 1987 he joined Tehran Polytechnic, now known as Amirkabir University of Technology, as a faculty member in electrical engineering. The university, founded in 1956 as Tehran Polytechnic, is one of Iran's principal technical universities and has a substantial tradition in engineering education and applied research.
At Tehran Polytechnic, he led the power systems group in the electrical engineering department from 1988 to 1990 and served as vice chairman responsible for education from 1990 to 1993. From 1993 he was identified as deputy vice chancellor responsible for educational evaluation. His academic work has included research on electric machinery, permanent-magnet generators and motors, power systems, microgrids, finite-element analysis, and wireless power transfer.
Beginning in 1989, Agha-Mirsalim also worked as an engineering consultant for Mehrafza Industrial Company in Tehran. From 1990 to 1992, he served as principal supervisor and principal investigator at the Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center in Tehran. Later research associated with Amirkabir University included analytical and computational studies of electric machines, renewable-energy generators, autonomous microgrids, and wireless charging systems.
Agha-Mirsalim has contributed to research on the analysis, design, prototyping, and control of electric machines, including axial-flux permanent-magnet generators, flux-switching motors, induction machines, and switched-reluctance machines.
His research has addressed power-system and microgrid control, including robust control methods for autonomous microgrids with distributed energy resources, communication delays, nonlinear loads, and small- and large-signal stability.
He has contributed to interdisciplinary engineering research on wireless power-transfer systems, including electromagnetic and thermal analysis of charging pads for electric vehicles.
(Co-authored research examining electromagnetic and therma...)
2020(Co-authored research combining electromagnetic and therma...)
2024(Co-authored with Seyed Mohsen Hosseini and Mehran Mirzaei...)
2008Design, Prototyping and Analysis of a Low-Cost Disk Permanent-Magnet Generator with Rectangular Flat-Shaped Magnets
(Co-authored with Seyed Mohsen Hosseini and Mehran Mirzaei...)
2008(Co-authored with Hamid Reza Baghaee, Gevork B. Gharehpeti...)
2017(Co-authored with A. Jamali-Fard. The paper proposes an ad...)
2022Agha-Mirsalim is identified as Muslim. Islam is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion founded in seventh-century Arabia around the Qur'an and the teachings of Muhammad. Its central traditions emphasize the worship of one God, prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage, moral accountability, and communal responsibility.
Agha-Mirsalim has been a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an international professional organization that develops standards, publishes technical research, and supports the electrical and electronic engineering professions. His IEEE status has included Senior Member recognition.
Agha-Mirsalim married Maliheh Mehrafza in September 1977. They have two children, Mona and Mohammed-Ali. His parents were Jalal Agha-Mirsalim and Kobra Pourjavadi.
