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Baharak Sajjadi

Baharak Sajjadi, Ph.D.

Portrait of Baharak Sajjadi.

Email: baharak.sajjadi@ou.edu
Office: SEC 1268


  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Malaya
  • M.Sc. Chemical Engineering, University of Arak
  • B.Sc. Chemical Engineering, University of Arak

Baharak Sajjadi is an assistant professor at the Mewbourne School of Petroleum and Geological Engineering at OU. She leads the Sustainable Energy and Environment Group. Previously, Sajjadi worked as a research assistant professor at the University of Mississippi. She earned her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arak, Iran, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. She then joined the University of Malaya to pursue her Ph.D. degree and completed her dissertation in Chemical Engineering under the Bright Sparks Scholarship in 2015. Sajjadi has authored or coauthored more than 50 research and technical articles. Her main field of research includes advanced refinery processes; renewable energies; carbon capture, conversion, utilization; carbon functionalization, and modification; hydrogen production; and computational fluid dynamic. Sajjadi is an editor-in-chief of the third edition of the five-volume “Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation."


  • Advanced refinery processes
  • Renewable energies
  • Carbon capture and conversion utilization
  • Carbon functionalization and modification
  • Hydrogen production
  • Computational fluid dynamics

  • Sajjadi, B., et al., A techno-economic analysis of solar catalytic chemical looping biomass refinery for sustainable production of high purity hydrogen. Energy Conversion and Management, 2021. 243: p. 114341.