Farshid is an internationally award-winning scientist and engineer who was selected as Australian’s most innovative engineer in 2020.

Farshid’s work focuses on the sustainability of materials and processes with an emphasis on environmental and community benefits. He works collaboratively with companies and institutions in Australia and around the world and has established strong partnerships and a deep knowledge of industrial processes and problems.
He has extensive experience of working with manufacturing industry. His unique approach in creating innovative solutions is to generate, test and validate these solutions while also considering them against the business models and technical capabilities of industry to maximise their benefit and uptake.

He has six international patents and his technologies have been implemented in Japan, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and Australia. Just in the last four years, he has successfully delivered over $6 million of research programs in Australia in direct collaboration with manufacturing industries. Companies that implemented and commercialised these technologies internationally achieved great economic benefit and environmental impact while diverting millions of tonnes of wastes from landfill.