dr kabir sadeghi professor of university and expert of structures infrastructures marine and offshore structures engineering and management born july 1955 in tafresh is the founder of the international conference on coasts ports and marine structures icopmas in 1990 he is also the founder and a member of the committee of the ir marine and offshore code of practicestandard started by pmo 1988he has been active in a lot of activities and projects which started for the first time in iran he was the supervisor of design construction and installation of the first offshore template platform performed by ir experts n1 nosrat platform 1982 the project manager of the first harbor designed and constructed by iranian experts hormoz port 1986 the author of the first book for design of marine offshore structures in iran in 1989 the starter of teaching the first courses of marine and offshore structures design in universities of iran in 1986 in kn toosi university of technology in 1987 in iran university of science and technology then started teaching marine and offshore structures courses for master students in 1996 in sharif university of technology and in 2000 in amirkabir university of technology the engineering project manageroperation manager of the first phase of south pars gas field design construction and installation of spd1 spd2 spp1 spq1 spf1 and spf2 offshore jackets persian gulf 19952002 the senior consultant of the first semisubmersible platform amirkabir ex iran alborz semisubmersible drilling unit designed constructed and installed in iran waters in caspian seasince 1986 he has taught as fulltime or parttime professor in several universities such as girne american university sharif university of technology amirkabir university of technology iran university of science and technology kn toosi university of technology shahid beheshti universitytechnical and engineering campus educationsprofessor kabir sadeghi received the phd degree in civil structural engineering and the dea degree in marine structural dynamics engineering from cole centrale de nantesuniversity of nantes france in march 1995 and may 1991 respectively he has also a msc degree in structural engineering and a bsc degree in civil engineering from amirkabir university of technology 1986 and 1979 respectivelyhe was ranked as top student during his phd dea msc and bsc studies he has submitted four new formulas for nonlinear numerical simulation of structural elements finite elements method fem stressstrain law and damage index