Professor, Applied Engineering, United Nations University
Prof. Dr. Nima Shokri earned his PhD in 2009 upon the recommendation of the School of Architecture, Civil, and Environmental Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Following his doctoral studies, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich). Subsequently, he held academic positions as an Assistant Professor at Boston University in the United States (April 2010 – December 2012), as a Lecturer (January 2013 – July 2016), and as a Senior Lecturer (August 2016 – June 2020) at The University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
