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Dr. Mojtaba Rahimi is currently an assistant professor at the department of mechanical engineering of the Azad University of Khomeinishahr. He earned a B.Sc. degree in mining engineering from the University of Birjand in 2006 as the first rank graduate. His major during M.Sc. period was in petroleum reservoir engineering. Mojtaba obtained his M.Sc. degree from the Sharif University of Technology, the most prestigious and competitive university in Iran, in 2009. Then, he joined the school of mining and petroleum engineering of the University of Alberta in 2009. Petroleum geomechanics with focus on the constitutive modeling of uncemented and cemented sands was his research topic during the PhD period. Mojtaba worked under supervision of Prof. Dave Chan and Prof. Alireza Nouri during his PhD studies and earned a PhD degree from the University of Alberta in 2014. Mojtaba’s PhD research has so far led to publication of four ISI journals. He also had a short postdoc period in the University of Saskatchewan under supervision of Prof. Chris Hawkes in 2014. During his postdoc period, Mojtaba worked in area of petroleum geomechanics specifically on effects of stress induced anisotropy and inherent anisotropy on response of sonic logging tools.