Pedram Hassanzadeh

Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering


Room Number: MEB 222
(713) 348-5259
pedram@rice.edu
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Education

Postdoc (2015-16) - Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Ziff Environmental Fellow (2013-15) - Harvard University Center for the Environment
PhD 2013 - UC Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering
MA 2012 - UC Berkeley, Mathematics
MSc 2007 - University of Waterloo (Canada), Mechanical Engineering
BSc 2005 - University of Tehran (Iran), Mechanical Engineering

Awards & Honors

Young Investigator Award, Office of Naval Research (2020)

Early-Career Research Fellow, Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (2018-2020)

Ziff Environmental Fellowship, Harvard University Center for the Environment (2013–2015)

2014 GRL paper selected for AGU Research Spotlight/Editor’s Highlights

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2012)

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (2009–2011)

Outstanding Preliminary Examination Award, ME Department, UC Berkeley (2009)

Keywords

atmosphere, climate, weather extreme, planetary, geophysics, fluid dynamics, environment, machine learning

Research

My broad research interests are fluid dynamics, atmospheric science, climate dynamics, extreme weather events, geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics, and planetary science. I am particularly interested in developing simplified mathematical and numerical models, which I use along with high-resolution simulations, machine learning, observations, and laboratory data, to understand complex geophysical, environmental, and astrophysical flows.

Selected Publications

Nabizadeh E., Hassanzadeh P., Yang D. & Barnes E. A., Size of the atmospheric blocking events: Scaling law and response to climate change, Geophysical Research Letters, 2019

Chan P., Hassanzadeh P. & Kuang Z., Evaluating indices of blocking anticyclones in terms of their linear relations with surface hot extremes, Geophysical Research Letters, 2019

Hassanzadeh P. & Kuang Z., Quantifying the annular mode dynamics in an idealized atmosphere, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2019

Khodkar M. A. & Hassanzadeh P., Data-driven reduced modelling of turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection using DMD-enhanced Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 852, 2018

Ronalds B., Barnes E. A. & Hassanzadeh P., A barotropic mechanism for the response of jet stream variability to Arctic Amplification and sea ice loss, Journal of Climate, 2018

Anderson B. T., Hassanzadeh P. & Caballero R., Persistent anomalies of the extratropical Northern Hemisphere wintertime circulation as an initiator of El Niño/Southern Oscillation events, Scientific Reports, 7, 2017

Jeevanjee N., Hassanzadeh P., Hill S. & Sheshadri A., A perspective on climate model hierarchies, J. Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 2017

Ma D., Hassanzadeh P. & Kuang Z., Quantifying the eddy-jet feedback strength of the annular mode in an idealized GCM and reanalysis data, J. Atmospheric Sciences, (74) 2017

Hassanzadeh P. & Kuang Z., The linear response function of an idealized atmosphere: Part II: Implications for the practical use of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem and the role of operator's nonnormality, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79, 2016

Hassanzadeh P. & Kuang Z., The linear response function of an idealized atmosphere. Part I: Construction using Green’s functions and applications, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79, 2016

Hassanzadeh P. & Kuang Z., Blocking variability: Arctic Amplification versus Arctic Oscillation, Geophysical Research Letters, 42, 2015

Marcus P. S., Pei S., Jiang C. H., Barranco J. A., Hassanzadeh P. & Lecoanet D., Zombie vortex instability. I. A purely hydrodynamic instability to resurrect the dead zones of protoplanetary disks, The Astrophysical Journal, 808, 2015

Hassanzadeh P., Kuang Z. & Farrell B. F., Responses of midlatitude blocks and wave amplitude to changes in the meridional temperature gradient in an idealized dry GCM, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 2014

Hassanzadeh P., Chini G. P. & Doering C. R., Wall to wall optimal transport, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 751, 2014

Marcus P. S., Pei S., Jiang C. H. & Hassanzadeh P., Three-dimensional vortices generated by self-replication in stably stratified rotating shear flows, Physical Review Letters, 111, 2013

Hassanzadeh P., Marcus P. S. & Le Gal P., The universal aspect ratio of vortices in rotating stratified flows: theory and simulation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 706, 2012

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