Adjunct Professor

To advance the status of the university to a top world university, improve the student admission at the graduate level, especially at the PhD level, expand international collaboration, upgrade the university global ranking, create greater opportunities for sabbatical leaves of the PhD students, and facilitate the implementation of the research projects, IUT regulation of Adjunct Professor aimed at hiring the most outstanding world scholars has been issued.

Adjunct Professor is an international scholar or professor who cooperates with IUT under definite contract for a determined period. Cooperation can be started at any time of the year. The name of the adjunct professor can be registered at IUT faculty directory.

Areas of collaboration

Cooperation in IUT research projects and further contracts with other universities
Supervising graduate theses and dissertations
Research and educational Seminars and Workshops
Offering IUT specialized and required courses
Assistance in upgrading IUT global ranking
Assistance in resolving the existing research difficulties of IUT by application of the research data, facilities and equipment existing outside Iran

Adjunct Professor Commitments

During the three years of his/her contract, the adjunct professor is to supervise at least one PhD student jointly or individually.
The adjunct professor is to attend IUT full time 4 weeks annually or at least 9 weeks biannually
The adjunct professor should mention IUT address in all joint articles, scientific reports and all other jointly accomplished works.
IUT copyright in all joint inventions and discoveries should be determined through mutual consultation between IUT and the adjunct professor.

IUT Commitments

If necessary, adjunct professor’s travel expenses, economy level, would be financed through the grant of the host professor or be funded by the research resources of the hosting department.
If possible, the hosting department will provide the adjunct professor with the office and computer and lab equipment.
There would be no regular payment for the adjunct professor.
Supervising students will be paid the same as offered to IUT faculty of the same academic position
During short-term course of stay, the adjunct professor can be hosted at IUT guest house freely. The living expenses are to be covered by the adjunct professor himself.

Implementation

To employ adjunct professors, the candidate departments should send their application/proposal, after being approved by the educational-research council of their department, to IUT Dean Committee.The proposal should involve:

Educational, research and administrative background of the adjunct professor
Collaborating areas involving the relevant research projects and educational courses and workshops together with the necessity of employing the adjunct professor.
Detailed chronological schedule of the adjunct professor

The maximum number of adjunct professors to be hired by each department is equal to 10% of the faculty of that department.

After the approval of the university Dean Committee, the relevant department should follow the university administrative affairs and the issuance of the final permission by the Central International Scientific Cooperation Office at the Ministry of Science, Research & Technology (MSRT) in Tehran.

(Based on the regulation of cooperation with adjunct professors that has been approved and signed by the board of governors of Isfahan University of Technology in June 28, 2011 under the document No. 630.)

	Nationlity	Country	Home University	Major	related Department	Effective Dates of Agreement
Dr. Ali Zarrabi	Iranian	Turkey	Sabanci- SUNUM	Chemical Engineering and Nanotechnology	Nanotechnology & Advanced Materials Institute	June 2020- June 2023
Dr. Alireza Darvishy	Iranian	Switzerland	ZHAW	ICT	Electrical & Computer Eng.	Nov. 2019- Nov. 2022
Dr. Gondulf Hasse	Austrian	Austria	Univ. of Graz	Mathematics	Mathematical Sciences	July 2019- July 2022
Dr. Hans Wernher Van de Venn	German	Switzerland	ZHAW	Mechatronics	Mechanical Engineering	Sept. 2019- Sept. 2022
Dr.Paul Grimm	German	Germany	Folda University	Applied Informatics	Electrical & Computer Eng.	Sept. 2019- Sept. 2022
Dr.Hossein Tudeshki	Iranian	Germany	Clausthal Univ. of Tech.	Surface Mining and International Mining	Mining Engineering	July 2017-July 2020
Dr. Josef Senn	German	Switzerland	ETH	Natural Resources	Naturale Resources Dept.	April 2017-April 2020
Dr. Mohammad Jafar Taherzadeh	Iranian	Sweden	Univ. of Boras	Chemical Engineering	Chemical Engineering	December 2015- December 2018
Dr. Mohammad Pessarakli	Iranian	USA	Univ. of Arizona	Plant Sciences	College of Agriculture	January 2013- January 2016
Dr. Hans Crauel	German	Germany	Johann Wolfgang Goethe Univ.	Mathematics	Mathematical Sciences	July 2012- Julay 2015
Dr. Abbas Samani	Iranian	Canada	Univ. of Western Ontario	Image Processing	Electrical & Computer Eng.	February 2012- February 2015
Dr. Chanbau XU	Canaidan	Canada	Univ. of Western Ontario	Chemicals and Fuels	Chemistry	August 2012- August 2015