Mr. Mahdiar Taheri is currently a research fellow at The Australian National University (ANU) working in the fields of concentrated solar power (CSP) and water desalination under the supervision of A/Prof. Joe Coventry and Dr. Felipe Torres. He received his PhD in 2021 in the field of nanomaterials at ANU under the supervision of A/Prof. Takuya Tsuzuki, looking at green and scalable synthesis methods to produce metal organic frameworks (in particular zeolitic imidazolate frameworks) for water remediation, Li-ion batteries and oxygen evolution reactions. In 2016, Mahdiar was awarded two scholarships to commence his PhD, and has co-supervised six honours students since. Previously, he received his BSc and MSc degree in Materials Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran and ranked 1^st among the undergraduate students. After MSc graduation in 2013, he worked as a research assistant at IUST, advising on industrial and MSc/BSc thesis projects in relation to ceramic manufacturing and composites. Mahdiar has co-authored more than 35 peer reviewed papers.