Since 2001, he has worked in diverse roles within the academic sector. Currently, he remains a Visiting Academic in Environmental Law and International Nuclear Law on the ‘MSc Radiation and Environmental Protection’ and ‘MSc Nuclear Science and Applications’ at the University of Surrey, Physics Department. He supervises post-graduate projects on (i) Nuclear and Radiological Security; (ii) Environmental Radioactivity; and (iii) Small Modular Reactors (SMR).

Bahram is also a visiting academic in Construction Law on the ‘MSc Construction Engineering Management’, in the School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, at University of East London. From 2002 to 2015, Bahram was a Senior Lecturer in Law in the School of Civil Engineering and Construction Management and School of Surveying and Planning at Kingston University, London, where he taught Built Environment Law and Construction Law. In the course of his extensive academic career, he has designed, implemented, taught, supervised, assessed and quality assured a broad range of courses.

Furthermore, he is an accomplished researcher (see publications list below). His research is primarily focused on the Environmental, Security, and Proliferation aspects of the nuclear industry, including nuclear material, radioactive substances, and nuclear facilities. He has published extensively on technical, legal and policy issues in this context.

Bahram has also been working as an independent consultant, advising companies and organisations, in the UK and abroad, in relation to such issues as capital projects in the mineral, chemical and petrochemical sectors.

Bahram’s interests include Environmental Protection, going to the Opera, writing poetry and photography.
Well-travelled (57 countries to date), Katja is conversant and comfortable working with diverse cultures and traditions, and has various degrees of language skills (especially French, German and Spanish).

Qualifications:

• LLM:  Public International Law, Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL).
• LLB:  Law, School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London.
• MBA:  The City University Business School (now Cass Business School).
• PhD:  Nuclear Science and Technology, Imperial College London.
• MSc & DIC:  Nuclear Reactor Science and Technology, Imperial College London.
• BSc:  Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Membership of Professional Bodies, Associations, etc:

• Member: International Nuclear Law Association (INLA), Brussels.
• Member: World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS), Vienna.
• Member:  Chartered Status, the UK Nuclear Institute (MNucI).
• Member: Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb).
• Member: Chartered Engineer (CEng), Engineering Council UK.
• Member: UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA).
• Member: The UK Project on Nuclear Issues (UK PONI).
• Member: World Nuclear University (WNU).
• Academic Member: Society of Construction Law (SCL).

• Ghiassee B (2018) 'Update on the Iran Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA) under the Trump Administration', International Energy Law Review (IELR), Vol. 36, No. 1, 7-9.
• Ghiassee B (2017) 'Nuclear Security – Transcending the Policy Objectives of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime' (Chapter 3), in Kouhi-Esfahani and Mohammadi (eds)‘Nuclear Policies in Asia’, Oxford: Routledge.
• Ghiassee B (2016) The Radioactivity of the Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) of Shale Gas (Part Il) - an International and European Legal Perspective, International Energy Law Review (IELR), Vol.34, No.2, 61-69.
• Ghiassee B (2016) 'The Radioactivity of the Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) of Shale Gas (Part I)', International Energy Law Review (IELR), Vol. 34, No. 1, 16-22.
• Ghiassee B (2015) Book Review, 'Nuclear Energy and Liability in South Asia' (M P Ram Mohan, 2015), International Energy Law Review (IELR), Vol. 33, No. 8, 316-318.
• Ghiassee B (2015) Book Review, 'Deconstructing Energy Law and Policy: The Case of Nuclear Energy' (R L Heffron, 2015), International Energy Law Review (IELR), Vol. 33, No. 7, 282-283.
• Ghiassee B (2014) 'Nuclear Terrorism and Environmental Protection under International Law', Int. J. Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp.83–99.
• Ghiassee B (2014) Book Review, 'Legal Resolution of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Disputes' (J D Fry, 2013), International Energy Law Review (IELR), Vol. 32, No. 4, 226-228.
• Ghiassee B (2011) Conservation and other Controls, in Harris C (ed), Planning Factbook, Croner, London: Wolters Kluwer (UK) Publishing.
• Ghiassee B (2010) 'Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) - Forty Years of International Peace and Energy Security', Nuclear Future (Journal of the Nuclear Institute) Vol. 6, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2010.
• Ghiassee B (2010) 'Strategic Siting Assessment (SSA) - Informing the Nuclear National Policy Statement for New Nuclear Power Stations', Nuclear Future, Journal of the Nuclear Institute, 6(2) March/April 2010.
• Ghiassee B (2010) Infrastructure (Chapter 9), in Harris C (ed), Planning Factbook, Wolters Kluwer Publishing, London.
• Ghiassee B (2010) Book Review, 'Nuclear Law' (S Tromans QC, 2010), Nuclear Future (Journal of the Nuclear Institute) Vol. 6, No. 4, July/August 2010.
• Ghiassee B (2010) Hazardous Substances (Chapter 10), in Harris C (ed), Planning Factbook, Wolters Kluwer Publishing, London.
• Ghiassee B, (2009) 'Generic Design Assessment (GDA) - Facilitating Nuclear New Build in the UK', Nuclear Future, Journal of the Nuclear Institute, 5(6) 321-327 Nov/Dec 2009.
• Ghiassee B (2009) 'The High Court Rules for the UK Nuclear Test Veterans', Nuclear Future (Journal of the Nuclear Institute), 5(6) 291-2, Nov/Dec 2009.
• Ghiassee B (2009) 'Justification Decision - the First Hurdle to Nuclear New Built in the UK', Nuclear Future, Journal of the Nuclear Institute, 5(2) 79-84 March/April 2009.
• Ghiassee B (2006) The International Regulation of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) from Non-Nuclear Industries (submitted to an International Law firm).
• Ghiassee B (2006) 'Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and Iran - A Case Study in Dispute Resolution and Compliance' (Submitted to an International Organisation in 2006).
• Ghiassee B (2004), 'The Long Arm of Environmental Law', Estates Gazette, 15 May 2004.
• Ghiassee B (2002) 'Nuclear Terrorism and The Environment', UK Environmental Law Association, e-law Journal, No.8, March 2002.
• Ghiassee B (2002) The Implications of OSPAR Convention (Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic) for the UK Nuclear Industry and Its Regulation (submitted to an International Law firm).
• Ghiassee B (1986) 'Vapour-Pressure Equations for Solid and Liquid UF', Uranium Hexafluoride, J Nuclear Materials 139, 284.