Yasser is a Professor of Thermal Energy Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Manchester, a position he has held since July 2024. He joined the university as a Senior Lecturer in January 2021 after serving as a Lecturer in Clean Energy at Queen’s University Belfast. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Delft University of Technology, working on turbulent reacting flows, and later at the University of Cambridge, where he focused on aeroacoustics of gas turbines. He holds a BSc, MSc, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering. After completing his PhD in 2012, he worked as a research engineer in the oil and gas industry before transitioning to academia. His research interests include turbulent flow and heat transfer, energy storage, compressors for hydrogen and air storage, aeroacoustics, and hydrogen combustion. He has been a principal investigator or co-investigator on research projects funded by EPSRC, the Royal Society, Invest Northern Ireland, and industry.

Yasser leads the Turbulent Heat Transfer Special Interest Group within the UK Fluids Network and serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Thermal Sciences. He has been ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists in the Energy subfield, as compiled by Stanford University (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025).