Mostafa Mollaali
Postdoctoral Researcher at UFZ
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolMostafa Mollaali is a postdoctoral researcher with eight years' experience in computational mechanics, specializing in hydraulic and carbon dioxide fracturing and phase-field fracture modeling. He earned a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan–Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute and brings a strong geotechnical background from his master's work on XFEM modeling of fractured reservoirs. Currently based in Leipzig at UFZ, he combines numerical modeling, mesh generation, and energy-release analysis to tackle evolving-solid mechanics problems and has contributed practical Jupyter-based simulation notebooks to the OpenGeoSys community. His profile blends academic rigor with field-informed geotechnical consulting experience, giving him uncommon fluency in both soil/rock mechanics and advanced computational fracture methods.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint InstituteMaster's degree, Geotechnical Engineering, Master's degree, Geotechnical Engineering at Tarbiat Modares UniversityBachelor's degree, Civil Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering at Shahid Chamran University
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Github Skills (10)
simulations10
simulation10
jupyter-notebook10
visualization10
visualizations10
python10
data-analysis9
feh7
freefem7
numpy7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ufz/ogs
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
DO NOT USE THIS REPO! Migrated to https://gitlab.opengeosys.org/ogs/ogs!
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:13 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Mostafa contributed to the "ogs" repository by adding a Jupyter Notebook demonstrating a surfing benchmark problem using the pyvista library. The user included code for mesh generation, pre-processing, and running the simulation. They also focused on post-processing the results, plotting the data and analyzing the energy release rate.
chemical-engineeringgravityatmospheric-modellingsnl-applicationshydrology
vahidzrad/git_hf
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:181 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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