Dr. Ahmad Vasel-Be-Hagh joined the University of South Florida in 2024 as an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering to establish the Thermofluids Discovery Laboratory. Prior to that, he was with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tennessee Tech University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Windsor, followed by a Postdoc position at the University of Delaware. The National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), NASA, and private industry have funded his research for $2+ million. As a thermal fluid science expert, his research focuses on energy and aerospace systems to improve their performance and minimize environmental impact by developing computer models and conducting laboratory and field experiments. His research, funded via an NSF CAREER grant, investigates the interactions of mega-scale solar farms and the atmospheric boundary layer, with an ultimate goal of parameterizing that impact in the form of thermal and mechanical boundary conditions, allowing meteorologists to include such huge artificial canopies in mesoscale weather models. His DOI-funded project investigated wind farms, which led to a better understanding of how their turbulent wakes interact and affect the transport processes within the atmospheric boundary layer. This work also included optimizing wind plants to maximize energy production. He is also developing a de-icing technology for TVA to shorten the length of nuclear plant maintenance outages, which would benefit the public by reducing air pollution and electricity prices. As part of a large NASA-funded project aiming to develop a 150-passenger hydrogen-powered airplane, he is in charge of understanding how moving from kerosene to ammonia affects the formation, evolution, persistence, and radiative forcing of condensation trails by modeling the thermodynamics and microphysical processes that underly this phenomenon. Dr. Vasel-Be-Hagh has shared his research findings via several peer-reviewed books, book chapters, and conference and journal articles.