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Aida Farsi

Aida Farsi

Chenkai Dai

Assistant Professor

Email: aida.farsi-1@ou.edu
Office: Felgar Hall 219B
Office Hours: M/F 3:00-4:00pm
Website: Farsi Research Group

Education
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (2021)
Ontario Tech University, Canada
M.S. and B.S., Mechanical Engineering (2017)
Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran

Research Focus

  • Electrochemical engineering
  • CO2 capture and conversion
  • Water electrolysis
  • Redox flow battery
  • Multiphase flow transport in porous media
  • Operando imaging
  • Assistant Professor - School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma (August 2026-present)
  • Postdoctoral Associate - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 2025-August 2026)
  • CANSTOREnery Project Team Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Toronto (August 2024- February 2025)
  • MITACS Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellow - University of Toronto (July 2023-August 2024)

Journal Articles:

  • Aida Farsi, Vasant Batta, Jason K.D. Chan, Rui Kai Miao, Prasad V. Sarma, David Sinton, Aimy Bazylak (2026). Managing alkaline CO2 electrolyzer flooding using a grooved cathode gas diffusion electrode. ACS Applied Energy Materials. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.6c01086
  • Aida Farsi, Vasant Batta, Alexandre Tugirumubano, Tess Seip, Aimy Bazylak (2026). Impact of over compression of gas diffusion electrodes in alkaline zero-gap CO2 electrolyzers. Nature Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-42959-1
  • Aida Farsi, Lijun Zhu, Tess Seip, Aimy Bazylak (2025). Predicting liquid organic hydrogen carrier saturation in dehydrogenation cell gas diffusion layers for hydrogen storage. ChemCatChem. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202401286
  • Alexandre Tugirumubano, Tess Seip, Lijun Zhu, Chaeyoung Tina Ham, Aida Farsi, Aimy Baylak (2024). Integrated-channel porous transport layers reduce ohmic and mass transport losses in polymer electrolyte membrane electrolyzers. Advanced Energy Materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202410262
  • Aida Farsi, Marc A Rosen. (2022). Performance analysis of a hybrid aircraft propulsion system using solid oxide fuel cell, lithium-ion battery and gas turbine. Applied Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.120280
  • Aida Farsi, Ibrahim Dincer, Greg F Naterer. (2020). Multi-objective optimization of an experimental integrated thermochemical cycle of hydrogen production with an artificial neural network. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.06.262 
  • Aida Farsi, Calin Zamfirescu, Ibrahim Dincer, Greg Naterer. (2020). Electrochemical transport in CuCl/HCl (aq) electrolyzer cells and stack of the Cu–Cl cycle. Journal of The Electrochemical Society. 10.1149/1945-7111/ab74c0

Conference Proceedings:

  • Sujat Sen, Aida Farsi, Weiran Gao, Fikile Brushett (August 2026). Implementing finite-element electrochemical simulations in the undergraduate curriculum. American Chemical Society (ACS), Chicago, USA.
  • Aida Farsi, Nils Heim, Isabella Caruso, Fikile Brushett (May 2026). Evaluating 4-stage aqueous electrochemical CO2 separation with dissolved quinone derivatives. Electrochemical Society (ECS), Seattle, USA.
  • Isabella Caruso, Katelyn M. Ripely-Kenyon, Florian Gollmann, Aida Farsi, Fikile R. Brushett (October 2025). Evaluating performance of a 2-Stage electrochemical CO2 separation system. Electrochemical Society (ECS), Chicago, USA.
  • Aida Farsi, Vasant Batta, Aimy Bazylak (August 2024). Heterogeneous gas diffusion electrode deformation in anion exchange membrane CO2 electrolyzers. International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), Montreal, Quebec.
  • Aida Farsi, Alexandre Tugirumubano, Vasant Batta, Aimy Bazylak (May 2024). Revealing the effect of compression on carbonate salt precipitation in alkaline zero-Gap CO2 electrolyzers. Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME), Toronto, Ontario.
  • Aida Farsi, Aimy Bazylak. (Nov. 2023) Wettability characterizations of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell gas diffusion layers. Canadian Society of Chemical Engineering (CSChE), Calgary, Alberta.
  • Aida Farsi, Marc A Rosen. (May 2022). Thermal management of a hydrogen electric vehicle integrating a fuel cell and batteries. Six Symposium on Circular Economy and Urban Mining, Capri, Italy.