Hooman Mehdizadeh-Rad is a full-time Mechanical Engineering Lecturer and Course Coordinator of Master of Engineering at College of Engineering, IT and Environment of Charles Darwin University. Dr Mehdizadeh-Rad is Chartered in Mechanical Engineering and Project Management areas (CPEng, NER, MIEAus), and his research is multidisciplinary that focuses on heat mitigation in tropical cities, solar energy, designing HVAC systems and building energy simulation. Dr Mehdizadeh-Rad received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and his PhD in the field of designing thin film solar cells. He has also set up the solar cell lab and has fabricated the first NT organic solar cell in 2018 in Charles Darwin University. Dr Mehdizadeh-Rad has been teaching different Mechanical Engineering and Project Management units at the College of Engineering, IT and Environment of Charles Darwin University.