Dr. Masoud Riazi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Petroleum Engineering at Nazarbayev University, School of Mining and Geosciences. Dr. Riazi earned his BSc in petroleum engineering from the Petroleum University of Technology (PUT), Iran, in 2003, an MSc in Reservoir Engineering from Tehran University, Iran, in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, UK, in 2011.

Before joining NU, he served as a Professor at Shiraz University, where he also held the positions of Dean and Vice Dean for both research and student affairs at the School of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering.

Throughout his career, Dr. Riazi has supervised over 60 BSc, 84 MSc, and 5 Ph.D. students' projects/theses from 15 different universities. He has overseen 11 postdocs across 5 disciplines (Chemical, Petroleum, Material, Civil, and Geology Engineering) and has authored over 400 papers and reports in prestigious national/international journals and conferences, along with 25 patents, several books, and book chapters. As of May 2026, his H-index is 55 in Google Scholar and 49 in Scopus.

Dr. Riazi brings 12 years of industrial experience as a reservoir engineer and senior consultant in private companies in the UK and Iran. He has played key roles, including project manager, principal investigator, technical manager, and consultant, in 20 different joint industrial projects in the UK, Iran, China, and Colombia.

His achievements include awards for teaching, mentorship, research, collaboration with industry, innovation, entrepreneurship, best conference paper, and student chapter activities. Notably, he has been recently recognized as one of the world's top 2% scientists for the period 2019-2025.

• Reservoir simulation and modelling of multiphase flow in porous media

• Data Analytics in Petroleum Engineering

• Enhanced hydrocarbon recovery (EOR and EGR)

• Carbon dioxide sequestration, underground gas/H2 storage

• Effect of surface phenomena at pore scale flow mechanisms/application of microfluidics

• Surface phenomena: foam, emulsion, Aphron, froth flotation, Marangoni effect in PE

• Asphaltene precipitation and deposition

• Waste water management/oil-water separation

• Soil remediation and the environment

• Postgraduate Students

o Advanced EOR (PhD students) 
o PETE 501 - Foundations of Petroleum Engineering (MSc students)
o PETE 506 Advanced Reservoir Simulation (MSc students)
o PETE 601 Petroleum Data Analytics (MSc students) 
o PETE 801 Advanced Reservoir Simulation (PhD students)
o PETE 805  Special Topics in Petroleum Engineering: Data Analytics (PhD students)
o Fluid Phase Equilibria (MSc students)
o Water Flooding and Gas Injection Methods for EOR (MSc students)
o Reservoir Engineering of Fractured Reservoirs (MSc students)
o Advanced Well Testing (MSc students)
o Fluid Flow in Porous Media (MSc students)
o Fundamental of Reservoir Engineering (MSc Students of Geology Department)

• Undergraduate Students

o PETE 302- Reservoir Engineering I with Laboratory works   
o PETE 305 Well Test Analysis  
o PETE 311 Reservoir Simulation 
o PETE 400 Capstone Design Projec 1  
o PETE 407 Capstone Design Projec 2 
o Enhanced Oil Recovery
o Reservoir Rock Properties
o Reservoir Fluid Properties
o Well Testing 
o Well Logging and Formation Evaluation
o Carbonate Reservoir
o Reservoir fluid properties Lab
o Reservoir rock properties Lab
o Software Workshop I (Eclipse)
o Software Workshop II (Pansystem) 

Google Scholar:

Masoud Riazi - Google Scholar

ResearchGate:

Masoud RIAZI, Research profile (researchgate.net)