Yasser is Professor and Chair of Thermal Energy Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Manchester. He joined the University of Manchester as a Senior Lecturer in January 2021 and was promoted to Professor in July 2024. Prior to joining Manchester, he was Lecturer in Clean Energy at Queen’s University Belfast (2016–2020). Earlier in his career, he held postdoctoral research positions at Delft University of Technology (2013) and the University of Cambridge (2013–2016), where he worked on turbulent reacting flows, aeroacoustics of gas turbines and thermal-fluid engineering. Following the completion of his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2012, which focused on turbulent hydrogen combustion, he worked as a Research Engineer in the oil and gas industry. He holds a BSc, MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering.

His research focuses on the development of clean and sustainable energy technologies that support energy security, industrial decarbonisation and the transition to Net Zero. His expertise spans long-duration energy storage, compressed air energy storage, hydrogen systems, thermal-fluid engineering, porous-media heat transfer, compressors and turbomachinery, hydrogen storage tank, turbulent combustion and AI-enabled digital twins. Yasser has secured more than £8 million in research funding as Principal Investigator and has contributed to research programmes exceeding £14 million in total value. He currently leads major EPSRC-funded programmes in long-duration energy storage, compressed-air energy storage, and porous-media heat transfer.

He is Founder and Chair of the Turbulent Heat Transfer Special Interest Group within the UK Fluids Network, a national interdisciplinary community bringing together researchers and industry working on heat transfer and thermal systems. He serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Thermal Sciences, Journal of Porous Media and Discover Fluid Mechanics. Yasser has published more than 130 research outputs, including over 80 Q1 journal papers, three books and four book chapters. His work has been recognised internationally, and he has been ranked among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists every year since 2021. In 2024, he was also recognised among the top 0.5% of scholars worldwide by ScholarGPS.