Arsalan Hekmati was born in Iran in 1982. He received the B.S., M.S., and
Ph.D. degrees from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2005,
2007, and 2011, respectively, all in electrical power engineering.
He has been a member of the Superconductive Electronics Research
Laboratory since 2007 and was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the
Sharif University of Technology from 2011 to 2012, where he conducted
projects in applied superconductivity, such as the fabrication and characterization
of superconductor YBCO cylinders and the fabrication and test
of inductive SFCLs for the first time in Iran. From 2006 to 2011, he
was the Head of the Research Development Department with the Iran
Transformer Research Institute and a Project Leader with Iran Transfo
Company, Ofogh Consulting Engineers Company, and the Distribution Network
Company, Tehran, Iran. Since 2012, he has been with the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University,
Tehran. His current research interests include superconducting power devices,
insulation and high-voltage systems, and electric machinery, particularly
transformers.
