Dr. Tariq Nazir

Dr. Nazir is a high achieving early career researcher and has an excellent track record in both research and teaching in electrical power engineering. He currently has 2 book chapters, 50 publications including 35 refereed journals and 15 flagship conference publications. His current h-index is 19 with over 1000 citations. He is also serving as an associate editor for “High Voltage” and “Applied Nanoscience” journals. Recently, he presented a guest talk and chaired the oral session 13 (High Voltage and High Current Testing Techniques) at 22nd International Symposium on High Voltage Engineering (ISH-2021), Xi’an China. Dr. Nazir is a winner of the highly competitive "Fulbright Postdoctoral-RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship". He is a recipient of UNSW-XJTU Collaborative Research Seed Grant, UNSW Postdoctoral writing fellowship award, Outstanding research performance award of SKLEIPE, XJTU, Excellent student paper award, Honour graduate student award of Chongqing University (CQU), UNSW-TFS Scholarship, Chinese government scholarship (CSC) award, Outstanding reviewer contribution award and several international travel awards including IEEE NSW DEIS Chapter Travel Grant. He is a Professional Engineer member (MIEAust.) of Engineers Australia and a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS), IEEE young professionals, CIGRÉ Australia, Society of Fire Safety (SFS), Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) & etc.

• High Voltage Systems – Electrical power generation, measurement, and testing, condition monitoring and insulation analysis of transmission lines, cables, generators, motors, transformers, switchgear, power electronic circuits, plasmas, and electrical discharges. 
• Emerging Technologies in Electrical Systems – Modern condition monitoring techniques of electrical and electronic equipment, partial discharge detection, dielectric loss, dielectric spectroscopy, discharge characteristics, nanodielectrics, insulation breakdown, dielectric failure mechanism, overhead insulators’ pollution performance, overhead power lines under catastrophic bushfires and pole top fires, dielectric properties, Finite Element Method (FEM) simulation modelling and application of machine learning in condition monitoring.
• Power Systems – Electromagnetic transients in power systems, lightning, grid connection, load flow analysis, short circuit analysis, dynamic stability analysis (EMT & RMS), harmonic analysis, ANSYS Maxwell, COMSOL, PSSE, PSCAD and/or Powerfactory.
• Pulsed power, Inverter fed motors for electrical drives, power electronics packaging materials, thermal management and design, thermal test plan for packaging materials, energy storage materials’ synthesis, characterization, and optimization.
• Energy storage materials, Piezoelectrical materials, Composites materials, Fire retardant materials, Nanodielectrics, Nanofluids, Polymers and Plastics, Heat and Mass transfer.

Education

• Sept.2014–May.2018 || Ph.D. Electrical Engineering || UNSW Sydney
• Sept.2010-June.2012 || MEng. Electrical Engineering || Chongqing University || Chongqing, China
• Oct.2005-Aug.2009 || BSc. Electrical Engineering || University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan

 

Academic Teaching Qualification

• Nov. 2020 || Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) || Advance HE, UK
• Aug. 2020 || UNSW Engineering Course Design Institute (CDI) || UNSW Sydney
• Sept. 2019-Nov. 2019 || Foundations of University Learning and Teaching (FULT) || UNSW Sydney

• April 2022 to date || RMIT University Melbourne || Fulbright Fellow and RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow
• 01 September 2021 till 30 December 2021 || UNSW Sydney || Adjunct Lecturer 
• 20 September 2018 – to date || UNSW Sydney || Postdoctoral Fellow 

Dr Nazir has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, UNSW on multidisciplinary projects under Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Grants which support industry-led collaborations to develop important new technologies, products and services for commercialization. He was a part of UNSW’s research team working on CRC- Projects of Flame Security International to develop durable flame-retardant materials for use in the power industry, construction materials and defence. 

• 1 July 2018 till 30 December 2018 & 15 September 2019 till 30 December 2019 || UNSW Sydney || Adjunct Lecturer 
  
• 1 May 2018 – 30 July 2018 || UNSW Sydney || Postdoctoral Writing Fellow 
• 15 March 2015 – 15 March 2018 || UNSW Sydney || Academic Staff (Casual)/ Head Lab. Demonstrator 
• 15 September 2016 – 15 November 2016 & 5 May 2017 – 5 July 2017 || Xi’an Jiaotong University, China || Visiting Research Fellow