Girma T. Chala is currently an Associate Professor and Head of Mechanical Engineering (Well Engineering) Department at International College of Engineering and Management, Muscat, Oman. He received the B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, in 2006. He received the M.Sc. and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia, in 2009 and 2016, respectively. He is a chartered engineer and member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK. He has filed more than 15 patents, including one utility innovation. He has also published over 85 papers in reputable and indexed journals. His research interests include renewable energy, flow assurance of waxy crude oil, rheology, thermo-fluids, IC engines, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, and computational fluid dynamics.
