Dr Rizvi is a Lecturer in Marine Technology at University of Plymouth. He is a Naval Architect with expertise on ship design, ship structure, ship decommissioning, ship recycling, ship stability and ship hydrodynamics. He has extensive research experiences on marine vessels and marine structures covering wide range of topics including fatigue, failure and integrity. Dr Rizvi has experiences working in various industry-academia collaborative research projects. He has authored and co-authored more than fifty (50) peer-reviewed international journal and conference articles. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering and an Associate Editor of Ships and Offshore Structures Journal. Dr Rizvi also serves as a reviewer for several journals, UG and PG programme reviewer, PhD thesis examiner, technical committee member of international conferences and grant application assessor. He is currently serving as a Guest Editor for a Special Issue in MDPI Journal on the theme "Analysis of Designs for Ship and Offshore Structures". Dr Rizvi is actively engaged with various research projects and supervises PhD students. His current research focuses on ship structural behaviour under static and dynamic loads, ship recycling, maritime transportation green energy and storage systems.
In his current role, he is responsible for teaching Ship Stability, Hull Resistance, Ship Propulsion, Ship Design and Ship Structure along with Maxsurf Software Packages. Apart from teaching and research, he is also responsible for a number of admin roles.
Additional Roles within the Current Institution:
March 2023 - present: BEng/MEng(Mechanical/Marine) Programme Manager
October 2021- present: Member of the SECaM Teaching, Learning and Quality Committee (TLQC). November 2021- present: Member of the FoSE Faculty Strategy Group. October 2021- February 2024: Apprenticeship Lead in School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics.
October 2021- February 2024: Member of the Apprenticeship Strategic Board.
November 2015–October 2018: Admissions Tutor for Mechanical, Marine & Composites Programmes.
March 2015–October 2018: Member of the Engineering Recruitment Committee.
October 2014–October 2015: ShadowAdmissions Tutorfor Mechanical, Marine & Composites Programmes.
November 2014–December 2016: Memberof the School of Marine Science & Engineering Research Committee.
Previous Roles held elsewhere:
Feb 2011–Dec 2012: Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering, the University of Nottingham, UK.
July 2008–Jan 2011: Research Fellow, School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, UK.
Feb 2006–June 2008: PhD Research Student, School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, UK.
Feb 2003–Feb 2006: Research Assistant, Electronic Engineering Department, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Jan 2002–Dec 2002: Teaching Assistant, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Department, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Fellow, The Higher Education Academy, UK.
Associate Editor of Ships and Offshore Structures Journal:
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=tsos20Member of the
Editorial Board of the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (for Ocean Engineering section).
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse/sectioneditors/ocean_engineering
Guest Editor: Special Issue: Analysis of Designs for Ship and Offshore Structures for MDPI Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.
JMSE | Special Issue : Analysis of Designs for Ship and Offshore Structures (mdpi.com)Guest Editor: Special Issue: Frontiers in Ship and Offshore Structures for MDPI Journal of Marine Science and Engineering.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse/special_issues/ship_offshore_structuresGuest Editor: Special Issue: Big Data Analytics for Marine Shipping and Ship building Industries.
JMSE | Special Issue : Big Data Analytics for Marine Shipping and Ship Building Industries (mdpi.com)Reviewer for research articles submitted for publications in the Journals: RINA Transactions: IJME; Journal of Marine Science and Engineering; Energies; Microelectronics Reliability; Journal of Materials Research; Ships and Offshore Structures; Composites part B; Composite Structures.
Dr Rizvi's teaching interests include a wide variety of subjects, for example, Naval Architecture, Ship Stability, Resistance and Propulsion, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Advanced Materials, Failure Mechanism & Fracture Mechanics, Heat Transfer, etc.
Currently, Dr Rizvi is teaching the following subjects: As Module Lead & Lecturer:
- Naval Architecture 1 (UG, Level-5)
- Naval Architecture 2 (UG, Level-6)
- Advanced Naval Architecture (PG, Level-7)