News

2024

• September 1, (position) I joined the University of Groningen as an Assistant Professor.

• September 1, (literature) I self-published my work "On I and Time" on Amazon & IngramSpark.

• May, (literature) I finished writing a philosophical article on being and consciousness, particularly on how an animal can refer to itself as "I". There, I proposed a model for the brain, consisting of a core and three layers for memory storage. I used the model to describe various phenomena that animals may experience. One phenomenon that I attempted to address was the personal and dynamic perception of "time," which I elaborated on in a separate article. I compiled these articles as two chapters for a book titled "On I & Time", and I'm going to self-publish it in the coming months.

• Jan, I obtained my University Teaching Qualification in Higher Education (UTQ/BKO) certificate from the University of Groningen.

2023

• Nov 30, (literature) I published my poetry collection, "Four-season Blanket," as an eBook in Kindle edition on Amazon.

• Nov 1, (academic publication) I self-archived "A short note on approximating the critical strain for the onset of dynamic recrystallization". 

• June 26, (academic publication) I self-archived a short note on a new solution to Avitzur's model: "Flow curve approximation using Avitzur's model for barreling compression test".

• March 15, as I may become more active in using GitHub (by placing my new codes as well as uploading previous ones), I launched my page in soheilsolhjoo.github.io, which is only to give an overview of my codes.

• January 3, (academic publication) I published a peer-reviewed paper in Materials (MDPI), titled "ACTAS: A New Framework for Mechanical and Frictional Characterization in Axisymmetric Compression Test".

2022

• December 22, Upon completing all requirements (78 training hours) of the Live Well Wellness Global Coach Training program (60 hours of ACSTH training), Workplace Options granted me to be a certified wellness coach.

• December 5, (literature) I finished translating two Japanese short stories by "Akutagawa Ryunosuke".

• September 23, (literature) I compiled a collection of my own poems called "four-season blanket".

• September 26, My master's student presented and defended her work on "Analysis and Parameter Optimization of Constitutive Models for Finite Element Simulations of Human Skin Behavior Validated by Experimental Measurements".

• August 9, I obtained the certificate for the specialization "Image Processing for Engineering and Science".

• August 8, (academic publication) I published a peer-reviewed paper in Modelling (MDPI), titled "Revisiting the common practice of Sellars and Tegart's hyperbolic sine constitutive model". I had self-published its draft version previously in ResearchGate on 8 October 2021.

• February–March, (academic services) I lectured the bachelor course "Mechanics for IEM (WBIE024-05)", FSE, UG, Groningen, the Netherlands. 

2021

• October 8, (academic publication) I published a paper in ResearchGate, titled "Revisiting the common practice of Sellars and Tegart's hyperbolic sine constitutive model".

• September 17,  (academic publication) I published "Hot Deformation Fitting Tool (HDFT)" on GitHub. The code is written in MATLAB 9 and is released under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license. The code can be found at https://github.com/soheilsolhjoo/HDFT (doi:10.5281/zenodo.5512531).

• August 5, (literature) I published a Persian translation of the short story "Bee Honey" by Banana Yoshimoto on IGTV, narrated by Azadeh.

• August 1, I started to work at RUG as a postdoctoral research associate, working on skin modeling, within the UPSIM project.

• April 5, I started to use a personal domain name: solhjoo.com.

• March 3, I was honored to become a topic editor for the journal Lubricants, published by MDPI.

• February 14, (literature) I wrote a short story, "Theme: failed", although the English translation does not correctly describe the meaning. The story is about an online exam for a creative writing course.

• February 2, I launched my blog on Medium and wrote my first post about my attempts at solving Kaggle’s Titanic — Machine Learning from Disaster. 

• January 1, I started my new position as a postdoctoral research associate at the institute of engineering in Hanze UAS Groningen.

2020

• October 8, (academic publication) The paper "A verified solution of friction factor in compression test based on its sample's shape changes" has been published in International Journal of Mechanical Sciences: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2020.106175. (pre-proof version)

• September 20, (literature) I wrote a short memoir on the meaning of love.

• August 10, (literature) I e-published a collection of Nezami's ghazals. 

• August 6, (literature)  I translated "In quarantine".

• July 6, (literature) I translated "Time in a bottle". 

• July 5, (academic publication) The paper "FlexMM: A standard method for material descriptions in FEM" has been published in Advances in Engineering Software: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advengsoft.2020.102876.

• May 4, (literature) I finished writing a short story called: "Samar, Monir, Hamid, Leila, Samar." The story is about a sick woman left alone due to covid19 pandemic.

• April 28, (propositions) I wrote my 6th proposition as a reflection on this comparison: "knowledge versus wealth." Assuming that this comparison has its root in Plato's theory of forms, it can be approached only with a method that acknowledges the theory of forms. Moreover, if such a comparison can be devised via a school of thought that disregards the Plato's theory of forms, then they should be considered as two separate comparisons, even if the same exact wording is used for expressing both.

• April 15, (music) I released "Spring's Echo". This is my first attempt in this electronic genre.

• April 7, (music) I released "Pivot".

• Mar 20, (music) I released "Gole Pooneh", which is based on an Iranian folk song ("Gole Pamchal"). The work is dedicated to all, who we lost last year. (Voice: Azadeh Rahimi)

• Mar 10, (literature) I translated "A love before time". 

• Feb 29, (literature) I translated "The sword & the Pen", a song by Regina Spektor [Far (2009)].

• Jan 6, (literature) I finished writing my first novella: Monday.

• Jan 1, I launched this website (hosted by Google.com) and moved from my previous one on WIX.com: https://soheilsolhjoo.wixsite.com/home.