Monday 15 March 2021

2020 MEI Young Person's Award to Ahmad Hassanzadeh

I am pleased to announce that the recipient of MEI's Young Person's Award for 2020 is Dr. Ahmad Hassanzadeh, now an independent consultant in Germany. His glowing nominations come from Prof. Mehmet Sabri Çelik, of Harran University, Turkey, Dr. Tomasz Niedoba, of AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland, Prof. Nickolay Rulyov, of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Prof. Safak Gökhan, of the Turkish-German University, Turkey and Prof. John Ralston, Emeritus Laureate Professor of the University of South Australia.

Dr. Ahmad Hassanzadeh was born in 1986 in Khoy, Iran. In 2004, he completed his high school degree and attended Sahand University of Technology from where he graduated with a BSc in Mining Engineering in 2010. After completing an MSc in Mining Eng. (Mineral Processing) at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman he was granted two industrial projects in comminution, classification and flotation circuits at Sarcheshmeh Copper Complex, the largest copper beneficiation plant in Iran, from where he learnt much of all aspects of laboratory and industrial mineral processing.

Ahmad moved to Turkey in Sep. 2014 as a PhD student in the Mineral Processing Department of Istanbul Technical University under the supervision of Prof. Mehmet S. Celik. He researched the development of a functional material for use in water borne paints through the coating of calcite by TiO2. During this time he supervised several bachelor students’ projects and initiated several international joint projects between Iran, the UK, Turkey, Australia and Algeria. 

Ahmad was awarded an Erasmus Exchange Program grant in 2016 and exchanged as a PhD candidate in the Department of Mineral Resources Engineering at the Montan University of Leoben, Austria. Later, in December 2018, he successfully defended his PhD thesis on the effect of hydrodynamic parameters on particle-bubble interactions in flotation and graduated from the Mineral Processing Department of Istanbul Technical University.  He had five articles out of his thesis published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including two in Minerals Engineering and two in Colloids & Surfaces A.

During the last year of his doctorate program, Ahmad was selected by Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany as a post-doctoral research associate and worked two years (2018-2020) in the Processing Department of Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Research and Technology. 

Over the last 5 years, Ahmad has published 30 papers in high impact journals and 25 conference articles presented in Canada, Chile, UK, Iran, Serbia, Russia, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Turkey, and Albania, including an invited keynote lecture at the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Mineral Science this year. He was made an an editor of the Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing journal in 2020.

Ahmad is without doubt a very accomplished minerals engineer and his international links are impressive. Based in Germany for the past three years, he has developed joint projects with institutions in Poland, Germany, Iran and Turkey. 

Ahmad is a very worthy winner of the MEI Award, and I look forward to presenting it to him some time in the near future when international travel once more becomes possible.

Congratulations from all of us at MEI.

@barrywills

42 comments:

  1. He truly deserved it. Thanks a million Barry for your extraordinary support.
    Saeed Chelgani, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 12:50

      Dear Dr. Saeed Chelgani,

      Thank you very much for your warm message and hope to meet you in person somewhere in a corner of the world very soon.

      Regards,
      Ahmad

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  2. Congratulations Ahmad...
    Orhan Ozdemir, Istanbul University, Turkey

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 18:39

      Merhab Orhan hocam,

      Thanks a lot. I hope we have interactive and scientific collaborations together in near future.

      Best regards,
      Ahmad

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  3. Congratulations Ahmad!
    Anna Vanderbruggen, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg, Germany

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 12:53

      Hi Anna,

      Thank you! Looking forward to hearing you a lot in the future. Wish you the best.

      Cheers,
      Ahmad

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  4. Congratulations Ahmad!!, Hope to work and Publish New articles together!! Onur Güven, Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology university,Turkey

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 12:53

      Hello Önur,

      I am pretty sure we will. I am eagerly looking forward to futuristic joint works with you.

      Regards,
      Ahmad

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  5. Congratulations Ahmad, you are a very worthy winner of this wonderful award and I am very happy for as I wish I also would have been able to support our nomination but as you know I am only able to nominate one candidate and I was hesitating. But looking at the list of your supporters show how worthy of a nominee you are to recieve the prestiguous award.
    Best wishes, Martin

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 12:55

      Dear Martin,

      Thanks for your message and believe me, I totally understand you.

      Best wishes,
      Ahmad

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  6. Heartiest congratulations Ahmad!! You are always the best.
    Best wishes for you!!
    Asghar

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 12:56

      Dear Asghar,

      That´s always joyful working with you and your team. I am happy to bring our collaboration to the next level of having joint PhD candidates in 2021. Looking forward to that.

      Regards,
      Ahmad

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  7. Congratulations Ahmad! Well deserved.
    Maedeh Tayebi, Senior Metallurgist, Australia

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:01

      Hello Maedeh,

      Thank you very much, also happy Nowruz and new year. Hope to catch up soon again in one of conferences and/or somewhere in Germany/Australia.

      With my best regards,
      Ahmad

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  8. Hamid Khoshdast15 March 2021 at 11:00

    Congratulations Ahmad!
    You deserve more and more; and I am sure you have a brigh future ahead.

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:02

      Dear Hamid,

      Thank you very much. I am sure we will hear a lot from you in the near future and I am glad of having joint works together with the purpose of solving current challenges that mining and mineral processing industries face with.

      Sincerely yours,
      Ahmad

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  9. Congratulation Ahmad
    Patrick Jay, Adroit Process Equipment Pty Ltd, Australia

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:03

      Dear Patrick Jay,

      I appreciate your message, thank you!

      Regards,
      Ahmad

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  10. Congratulations,Ahmad--well deserved with such an impressive achievements--I am also happy that you have joined the. "young Brigade of MEI"--I am sure the future of our profession is very bright.

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:04

      Dear Dr. Rao,

      I am also very happy of joining "young Brigade of MEI". I am grateful for your nice words and happy to be in the community/family of mineral processing.

      Sincerely yours,
      Ahmad

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  11. Well deserved, Ahmad is one of the bests in our field. Good luck Ahmad and thank you Barry Wills for your right decision.
    Arash Tohry, Rahbar Farayand Arya, Iran

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:05

      Hello Arash,

      I am 100% sure you are on the right path to become one of Iranian/international bright-minded mineral processing engineers. I wish you all the best and a lot of success in this field.

      Regards,
      Ahmad

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  12. Congratulations to Ahmad Hassanzadeh: winner of the 2020 MEI Young Person's Award! Thank you Barry Wills and the Minerals Engineering International team for supporting and recognising dynamic, emerging new talent and contributions like this. Great support for us all - to celebrate and collaborate to forge new ideas in mineral processing for a more sustainable future.
    Alison Keogh, CEEC International Limited, Australia

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:06

      Dear Alison Keogh,

      Thanks a lot for your message and supportive words. I believe with an open attitude and innovative thinking; we will enable to propose promising solutions to the mining and mineral processing chainages.

      Best regards from Cologne, Germany
      Ahmad

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  13. Congratulations on your well-deserved success Ahmad! and best wishes for your next adventure! Thank you to Barry! for this recognition.
    Ali Dehghani, Weir Minerals Europe, UK

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:07

      Dear Dr. Ali Dehghani,

      I appreciate your kind consideration. Thank you!

      Regards,
      Ahmad

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  14. Well deserved dear Ahmad and many thanks to MEI for supporting dynamic young scientists
    Ahad Aghlmandi, Eti Bakır A.Ş. Küre İşletmeleri, Turkey

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:11

      Dear Dr. Ahad Aghlmandi,

      Thanks for your comment and happy to see that you combine both academic and industrial projects together. Looking forward to hearing you a lot.

      Best regards,
      Ahmad

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  15. Congratulations dear Ahmad. Well deserved my friend.
    Amir Eskanlou, West Virginia University, USA

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:13

      Dear Amir,

      Thanks for your message. I wish you all the best.

      Cheers,
      Ahmad

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  16. Congratulations Ahmed. I'm so proud to see an accomplished Mineral processor from my birth town in Iran. I've been a mineral processor for over 20 years in Canada, and the first time I heard we made another one :) I hope you will bring your skills and experiences to Canada one day.
    All the very best!

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:21

      Dear Sir/Madam,

      What a coincidence! Happy to hear from you and thank you for the kind message. BTW, happy Nowruz!
      Also, thanks to Barry for providing such opportunity that we can meet new members of the mineral processing family.
      I will be glad to meet you hopefully in Canada. It is a great place to grow especially for mineral processing engineers.

      Best regards from Germany to Canada,
      Ahmad

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  17. Dear Ahmad, really happy you won the price. You deserve it as a very humble and scientific person which helped whoever needed you. Be healthy and live long....

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:23

      Dear Sir/Madam,

      I am thankful for your kind message. Happy to be selected for such award.

      All the best,
      Ahmad

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  18. Dear Dr Heartiest Congratulations.Well, it's a great life time achievement which every researcher aims and dreams off. This award means a great boost and cutting edge recognition. All the best wishes..
    Thanks

    Dr Y Rama Murthy

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:28

      Dear Dr. Rama Murthy,

      Thank you! That´s so true and I am very grateful of the MEI team for choosing me for this award in 2020. That is a great honour.

      Regards,
      Ahmad

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  19. Congratulations Ahmad. Well done my friend. We all are so proud of you. Hope to see you soon in Flotation 21 in Cape Town.

    Mehdi Safari, Project Manager, South Africa.

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:32

      Hi dear Mehdi,

      Thank you very much. It is very nice of you. Cannot wait to meet up again this time in Cape Town.
      Best wishes for you in this first day of new year (1400 Solar Calendar)!

      Cheers,
      Ahmad

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  20. Congratulations Ahmad. Well deserved. Wish you working on many other projects together. Many thanks to Barry and the other organizers... Prof. Dr Safak Gokhan OZKAN

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:37

      Merhaba Safak hocam,

      Thanks for the message and supporting me through the process of selection and your recommendation letter. I wish the same for our future cooperation.

      Best regards,
      Ahmad

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  21. Congratulations on winning the 2020 MEI Young Person's Award. I am happy that someone from my friends and a Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman alumni won this prize, and I am even happier that it was you. The award appropriately reflects the endless hours you have spent on research.
    I wish you unlimited success in the future KISHI.
    Naer Rahmani, Khan Khatun Mine & Industries Group, Iran

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    1. Ahmad Hassanzadeh21 March 2021 at 13:43

      Hello Naer,

      Thanks a lot for your supportive, motivative and kind message. I am also very happy for this achievement. I wish you in response happiness in this new year and a lot of success in every stage of your career and life.
      Happy Nowruz!

      Hope to see you again.
      Best regards,
      Ahmad

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