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Ajab Gul Majidi is a dedicated Ph.D. researcher at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal, specializing in coastal engineering and marine renewable energy. With a robust background in Civil Engineering from Bursa Uludag University, Turkey, he actively contributes to multiple R&D projects focused on wave renewable energy, including projects such as The Determination of Wave Energy Generation by Various Wave Energy Converters in High Potential Regions of the Black Sea (TUBITAK), wave spectra climate of the Black and Azov Seas (RFBR-TUBITAK), WEC4Ports: A Hybrid Wave Energy Converter for Ports (FCT), and ATLANTIDA: Platform for Monitoring the North Atlantic Ocean and Tools for Sustainable Exploitation of Marine Resources (FCT). Passionate about renewable energy's pivotal role in ensuring the sustainability of our planet and species, Ajab is currently in his third year of Ph.D., holding a grant from FCT co-financed by the EU¿s ESF through the NORTE2020 program (Ref: 2021.04847.BD). He is working on a Multi-criteria Decision Support System for an Optimal Exploitation of Wind and Wave Renewable Energies in a Co-located Offshore Farm, aiming to drive innovation in the field. A prolific author, Ajab has contributed to a total of 19 scientific publications, including journal articles and conference papers, showcasing his commitment to advancing knowledge in his field. These publications encompass a diverse range of topics, from the impact of climate change on wave energy resources to the assessment of wave model calibration and water distribution network design. His expertise and enthusiasm drive his pursuit of innovative solutions in renewable energy, positioning him as a valuable collaborator and contributor in the ongoing effort to harness the potential of marine renewable energy for a sustainable future.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ajab Gul MAJIDI

Citation names

  • MAJIDI, Ajab Gul

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
DE11-5CAA-88BB
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0006-5843

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+351) 911890876 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Rua Honorio de Lima, 326, 2EQFR, Paranhos, Porto, Portugal, 4200-321, Paranhos, Porto, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Civil Engineering - Civil Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Pashto (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Turkish Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Persian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Hindi Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/01/21 - 2024/01/21
Ongoing
 Engenharia Civil (Licenciatura)
Major in Hydraulics, Water Resources and Environment
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2018/06/22 - 2020/09/02
Concluded
 Civil Engineering (Master)
Major in Hydraulics
Bursa Uludag Üniversitesi, Turkey
"ENERGY PRODUCTION FROM EXISTING AND SCALED WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS IN THE SOUTH-WESTERN BLACK SEA" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 4
2014/06/15 - 2018/06/06
Concluded
 Civil Engineering (Bachelor)
Major in Civil Engineering
Uludag Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi, Turkey
 4
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/01/27 - Current PhD Student Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/10/01 - 2025/10/01 Development of a Multi-Criteria Decision Framework for Optimizing Wind and Wave Energy Harvesting in Offshore Farms
2021.04847.BD
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
2021/11/01 - 2023/11/30 ATLANTIDA - ATLANTIDA - Platform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of the marine resources
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000040
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Concluded
2021/03/01 - 2021/10/31 WEC4Ports - A hybrid Wave Energy Converter for Ports
OCEANERA/0004/2019
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Concluded
2018/12/15 - 2020/10/15 Determination of wave energy generation (economic wave energy potential) by various wave energy converters in the high potential regions of the Black Sea (EWEP-WEC Project) (TUBITAK Project)
118R024
Master Student Fellow
Bursa Uludag Üniversitesi, Turkey
 Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/10/20 - 2021/03/01 Wave spectra climate of the Black and Azov Seas
119N480
PhD Student Fellow
Bursa Uludag Üniversitesi, Turkey
 TÜBITAK Bursa Test ve Analiz Laboratuvari
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. MAJIDI, Ajab Gul; Ramos, Victor; Rosa-Santos, Paulo; Luaciana das Neves; Taveira-Pinto, Francisco. "The Impact of RCP8.5 Climate Change Scenario on the Atlantic Coast of the Iberian Peninsula". Paper presented in WECANET Conference Ghent 6-7/03/202, Ghent, 2023.
    Accepted
Conference paper
  1. Victor Ramos; Tomás Calheiros Cabral; Gianmaria Giannini; Ajab Majidi; Luciana das Neves; Paulo Rosa Santos; Francisco Taveira Pinto; V. Ramos. "Numerical and physical modelling assessment for the integration of wave energy converters in the North Breakwater of the Port of Leixões". 2022.
    10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521716X20221875
  2. MAJIDI, Ajab. "Water Distribution Network Design by using a Computer Program: Application to Bursa, Görükle District". Paper presented in international conference on water and the environment in Bursa, 2018.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Majidi, Ajab Gul; Ramos, Victor; Rosa-Santos, Paulo; Akpinar, Adem; das Neves, Luciana; Taveira-Pinto, Francisco. "Development of a multi-criteria decision-making tool for combined offshore wind and wave energy site selection". Applied Energy 384 (2025): 125422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125422.
    Published • 10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125422
  2. Ajab Gul Majidi; Victor Ramos; Paulo Rosa-Santos; Luciana das Neves; Francisco Taveira-Pinto. "Power production assessment of wave energy converters in mainland Portugal". Renewable Energy (2025): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2025.122540.
    10.1016/j.renene.2025.122540
  3. Ajab Gul Majidi; Victor Ramos; Tomás Calheiros-Cabral; Paulo Rosa Santos; Luciana das Neves; Francisco Taveira-Pinto. "Integrated assessment of offshore wind and wave power resources in mainland Portugal". Energy (2024): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.132944.
    10.1016/j.energy.2024.132944
  4. Ajab Gul Majidi; Victor Ramos; Gianmaria Giannini; Paulo Rosa Santos; Luciana das Neves; Francisco Taveira-Pinto; Ajab Majidi; Francisco Taveira Pinto. "The impact of climate change on the wave energy resource potential of the Atlantic Coast of Iberian Peninsula". Ocean Engineering (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.115451.
    10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.115451
  5. Ajab Majidi; José Victor Ramos; K. Amarouche; Paulo Rosa Santos; Luciana das Neves; Francisco Taveira Pinto; Ajab Gul Majidi; et al. "Assessing the impact of wave model calibration in the uncertainty of wave energy estimation". Renewable Energy (2023): https://hdl.handle.net/10216/149440.
    10.1016/j.renene.2023.05.049
  6. Tomás Calheiros Cabral; Ajab Majidi; Victor Ramos; Gianmaria Giannini; Paulo Rosa Santos; Francisco Taveira Pinto; Ajab G. Majidi; José Victor Ramos. "Development and Assessment of a Hybrid Breakwater-Integrated Wave Energy Converter". (2022): https://hdl.handle.net/10216/136041.
    10.36688/imej.5.281-291
  7. Amarouche, Khalid; Akpinar, Adem; Soran, Mehmet Burak; Myslenkov, Stanislav; Majidi, Ajab Gul; Kankal, Murat; Arkhipkin, Victor. "Spatial calibration of an unstructured SWAN model forced with CFSR and ERA5 winds for the Black and Azov Seas". Applied Ocean Research 117 (2021): 102962. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2021.102962.
    10.1016/j.apor.2021.102962
  8. AjabGul Majidi; Bilal Bingölbali; Adem Akpinar; Gregorio Iglesias; Halid Jafali. "Downscaling wave energy converters for optimum performance in low-energy seas". Renewable Energy (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.12.092.
    10.1016/j.renene.2020.12.092
  9. Bilal Bingölbali; Ajab Gul Majidi; Adem Akpinar. "Inter- and intra-annual wave energy resource assessment in the south-western Black Sea coast". Renewable Energy (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2021.01.057.
    10.1016/j.renene.2021.01.057
  10. MAJIDI, Ajab. "Wave power performance of wave energy converters at high-energy areas of a semi-enclosed sea". Energy (2020): 119705-119705. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2020.119705.
    10.1016/j.energy.2020.119705
  11. Gul Majidi, Ajab; Bingölbali, Bilal; Akpinar, Adem. "The Changes of Theoretical Wave Power from Offshore to Coast in the South-western Black Sea". E3S Web of Conferences 191 (2020): 03004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019103004.
    10.1051/e3sconf/202019103004
  12. Gul Majidi, Ajab; Bingölbali, Bilal; Akpinar, Adem; Rusu, Eugen. "Dimensionless Normalized Wave Power in the Hot-spot Areas of the Black Sea". E3S Web of Conferences 173 (2020): 01001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202017301001.
    10.1051/e3sconf/202017301001
  13. MAJIDI, Ajab. "Power Production Performance of Different Wave Energy Converters in the Southwestern Black Sea". International Journal of Energy and Power Engineering 14 7 (2020): https://publications.waset.org/10011299/power-production-performance-of-different-wave-energy-converters-in-the-southwestern-black-sea.
    Open access • Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. MAJIDI, Ajab. "Energy production from existing and scaled wave energy converters in the south-western black sea". Master, Bursa Uludag Üniversitesi, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11452/14946.

Other

Other output
  1. Energy production from existing and scaled wave energy converters in the south-western black sea GÜNEY BATI KARADENIZ\textquoterightDE MEVCUT VE ÖL¸ CEKLENDIRILMI¸ S DALGA ENERJI DÖNܸ STÜRÜCÜLERINDEN ENERJI ÜRETIMI .... 2020. https://dx.doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.13430.93760.
  2. Su Da¿ gitim ¸ Sebekesinin Bilgisayar Tabanli Analizi: Bursa, Nilüfer Il¸ cesi, BalkanVe Kurtulu¸ s Mahalleleri .... 2018. https://dx.doi.org/10.13140/rg.2.2.26542.56646.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/08/21 The Changes of Theoretical Wave Power from Offshore to Coast in the South-western Black Sea 3rd International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environment Engineering - REEE 2020
REEE (Lisbon, Portugal)
2020/07/14 Power Production Performance of Different Wave Energy Converters in the Southwestern Black Sea XIV. International Conference on Active Filters and Harmonics Power Supplies
IRC-ICAFHPS-2020 (Ottawa, Canada)
2020/04/22 Dimensionless normalized wave power in the hot-spot areas of the Black Sea 2020 5th International Conference on Advances on Clean Energy Research
ICACER (Barcelona, Spain)
2018/03/23 Water Distribution Network Design by using a Computer Program: Application to Bursa, Görükle District ULUSLARARASI SU VE ÇEVRE KONGRESI
SUCEV (Bursa, Turkey)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2017/06/22 - 2017/09/14 Erasmus+ Internship Mobility
Other
 Erasmus Plus Traineeship
Università Popolare Anidra, Italy
2017/01/30 - 2017/06/30 Erasmus+ Exchange Student Mobility
Other
 Erasmus Plus Mobility
Óbudai Egyetem Ybl Miklós Építéstudományi Kar, Hungary
2015/09/14 - 2016/01/29 Erasmus+ Exchange Student Mobility
Other
 Erasmus Plus Mobility
Óbudai Egyetem Ybl Miklós Építéstudományi Kar, Hungary