دکتر میثم طباطبائی (1358)، محقق و مخترع، دکتری خود را در زمینه بیوتکنولوژی محیط زیست (سوختهای زیستی) در سال 1388 از دانشگاه پوترای مالزی (UPM) و در قالب همکاری بین این دانشگاه و (Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT ژاپن دریافت کرد. ایشان در حال حاضر عضو هیات علمی پژوهشکده بیوتکنولوژی کشاورزی ایران و همچنین موسس و رئیس تیم تحقیقاتی سوختهای زیستی (BRTeam) می باشد. دکتر طباطبائی همچنین استاد مدعو دانشگاه ملی لبنان، (University Technology Mara (UiTM مالزی و دانشگاه تهران می باشد. ایشان مسلط به زبان انگلیسی بوده و با زیان فرانسه نیز آشنایی دارد و همچنین دارای مدرک مترجمی همزمان (انگلیسی-فارسی) از دانشکده خبر می باشد. دکتر طباطبائی در زمینه رسانه نیز سالها فعالیت داشته است و همکاری با رادیو ایران، رادیو دانش و رادیو گفتگو را در کارنامه خود دارد. ایشان از سال 1394 تا کنون مجری شبکه رایویی جوان (پرمخاطب ترین شبکه رادیویی کشور) می باشد. 
دکتر میثم طباطبائی موسس و از سال 1394 رئیس هیات مدیره انجمن علمی سوختهای زیستی ایران (تحت نظر وزارت علوم، تحقیقات و فناوری) می باشد. وی همچنین رئیس کمیته سوختهای زیستی (ستاد توسعه زیست فناوری- معاونت علمی فناوری ریاست جمهوری) و رئیس کمیته استاندارد سوختهای زیستی (سازمان ملی استاندارد ایران) می باشد. ایشان در سال 1390 نشان ملی سپاس را از رئیس جمهور وقت جمهوری اسلامی ایران به واسطه خدماتش در زمینه توسعه دانش سوختهای زیستی در کشور دریافت کرد.
تحقیقات دکتر طباطبائی عمدتا در زمینه تولید سوختهای زیستی از ضایعات و همچنین نانوتکنولوژی بوده و ایشان داور بیش از 70 مجله معتبر بین المللی نظیر Biotechnology Advances، Bioresource Technology،  Journal of Membrane Science،Biosensors and Bioelectronics ،Applied Energy ، Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews و ... بوده و همچنین موسسس و در حال حاضر سردبیر مجله Biofuel Research Journal می باشد. این مجله از سال ۲۰۱۵ میلادی در (Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI  و در سال 2017 در SCOPUS نمایه شده است. ESCI ویرایش جدیدی از وب آو ساینس (ISI) می‌باشد که توسط تامسون رویترز (به انگلیسی Thomson Reuters) ایجاد شده است و مجلات با تأثیر بالا در رشته‌های مختلف علم را شامل می‌شود.
میثم طباطبائی به عنوان موسس و هماهنگ کننده شاخه ترویجی BRTeam یا گروه ترویجی دوستداران محیط زیست (EGE) از سال 2012 میلادی همکار برنامه عمران سازمان ملل متحد (SGP/GEF/UNDP) بوده است و در راستای ترویج تولید سوخت زیستی بیودیزل از ضایعات روغن های خوراکی پروژه های موفقی را در سطح ملی اجرا کرده است. در سال 1394، دکتر طباطبائی به عنوان مجری، در اولین پروژه شهری معاونت علمی فناوری ریاست جمهوری که با هدف استفاده از سوخت زیستی بیودیزل تولید شده از ضایعات روغن های خوراکی در سامانه حمل و نقل کلان شهر تهران و با همکاری سازمان اتوبوسرانی تهران و و انجمن علمی سوختهای زیستی ایران محقق شد، ایفای نقش نمود. 
دکتر طباطبائی تا کنون بیش از 150 مقاله معتبر و فصل کتاب منتشر نموده و اندیس پژوهش (h-index) ایشان 25 می باشد (h-index: 25, i10-index: 60). بیش از 10 اختراع ملی و بین المللی و بیش از 70 مقاله کنفرانسی از دست آوردهای دیگر ایشان می باشد. تعداد ارجاعات به مقالات ایشان 2223 بوده (May 2017) و ایشان تا کنون راهنمای و مشاوره 25 دانشجوی دکتری و کارشناسی ارشد را در کارنامه علمی خود دارد.

• Esmail Khalife, Meisam Tabatabaei, Ayhan Demirbas, Mortaza Aghbashlo, (2017). Impacts of additives on performance and emission characteristics of diesel engines during steady state operation. (Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 59: 32-78)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 23.643). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pecs.2016.10.
• Khalife, E., Kazeroni, H., Mirsalim, M., Shojaei, T.R., Mohammadi, P., Salleh, A.M., Najafi, B. and Tabatabaei, M., (2017). Experimental investigation of low-level water in waste-oil produced biodiesel-diesel fuel blend. (Energy)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.153).
• Hajjari, M., Tabatabaei, M., Aghbashlo, M. and Ghanavati, H., (2017). A review on the prospects of sustainable biodiesel production: A global scenario with an emphasis on waste-oil biodiesel utilization. (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 72, pp.445-464.)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 7.896).
• Mortaza Aghbashlo, Meisam Tabatabaei, Esmail Khalife, Bahman Najafi, Seyed Mostafa Mirsalim, Ayat Gharehghani, Pouya Mohammadi, Ali Dadak, Taha Roodbar Shojaei, Zahra Khounani. (2017). A novel aqueous nano-emulsion in diesel–biodiesel fuel blends to improve diesel engines performance and reduce exhaust emissions: Part II‒ Exergetic analysis. (Fuel)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 4.091). Accepted.
• Hosseinpour, S., Aghbashlo, M., Tabatabaei, M., Younesi, H., Mehrpooya, M. and Ramakrishna, S., (2017). Multi-objective exergy-based optimization of a continuous photobioreactor applied to produce hydrogen using a novel combination of soft computing techniques. (International Journal of Hydrogen Energy)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 3.659).
• Mohammad Ali Rajaeifar, Hossein Ghanavati, Behrouz B. Dashti, Reinout Heijungs, Mortaza Aghbashlo, Meisam Tabatabaei (2017). Electricity generation and GHG emission reduction potentials through different municipal solid waste management technologies: a comparative review. (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 10.1016/j.rser.2017.04.109)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 7.896).
• Yunos, N.S.H.M., Chu, C.J., Baharuddin, A.S., Mokhtar, M.N., Sulaiman, A., Rajaeifar, M.A., Larimi, Y.N., Talebi, A.F., Mohammed, M.A.P., Aghbashlo, M. and Tabatabaei, M., (2017). Enhanced oil recovery and lignocellulosic quality from oil palm biomass using combined pretreatment with compressed water and steam. (Journal of Cleaner Production, 142, pp.3834-3849.)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.315).
• Rajaeifar, M.A., Abdi, R. and Tabatabaei, M., (2017). Expanded polystyrene waste application for improving biodiesel environmental performance parameters from life cycle assessment point of view. (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 74, pp.278-298.)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 7.896).
• Dadak, A., Aghbashlo, M., Tabatabaei, M., Younesi, H. and Najafpour, G., (2017). Exergy-based sustainability assessment of continuous photobiological hydrogen production using anaerobic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum. (Journal of Cleaner Production, 139, pp.157-166.)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.315).
• Pourvosoughi, N., Mohammadi, P., Goli, S.A.H., Nikbakht, A.M., Jafarmadar, S., Pakzad, M. and Tabatabaei, M. (2016). Polysel: An environmental-friendly CI engine fuel. (Energy, 111, pp.691-700)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.153).
• Talebi, A.F., Dastgheib, S.M.M., Tirandaz, H., Ghafari, A., Alaie, E. and Tabatabaei, M. (2016). Enhanced algal-based treatment of petroleum produced water and biodiesel production. (RSC Advances, 6(52), pp.47001-47009)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 3.485).
• Aghbashlo, M., Hosseinpour, S., Tabatabaei, M., Hosseini, S.S., Najafpour, G. and Younesi, H. (2016). An exergetically-sustainable operational condition of a photo-biohydrogen production system optimized using conventional and innovative fuzzy techniques. (Renewable Energy, 94, pp.605-618)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 4.068).
• Aghbashlo, M., Tabatabaei, M., Karimi, K. and Mohammadi, M. (2016). Effect of phosphate concentration on exergetic-based sustainability parameters of glucose fermentation by Ethanolic Mucor indicus. (Sustainable Production and Consumption)- (ISI-Scopus cited).
• Sárvári Horváth, I., Tabatabaei, M., Karimi, K. and Kumar, R. (2016). Recent updates on biogas production-a review. (Biofuel Research Journal, 3(2), pp.394-402)- (ISI cited).
• Rajaeifar, M.A., Akram, A., Ghobadian, B., Rafiee, S., Heijungs, R. and Tabatabaei, M. (2016). Environmental impact assessment of olive pomace oil biodiesel production and consumption: a comparative lifecycle assessment. (Energy, 106, pp.87-102)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.153).
• Larimi, Y.N., Mollahosseini, A., Mohammadi, P. and Tabatabaei, M. (2016). Waste polymers recycling in biodiesel as a strategy to simultaneously enhance fuel properties and recycle the waste: realistic simulation and economical assessment approach. (Biofuels, pp.1-12.)- (ISI-Scopus cited).
• Kumar, R., Tabatabaei, M., Karimi, K. and Sárvári Horváth, I. (2016). Recent updates on lignocellulosic biomass derived ethanol-A review. (Biofuel Research Journal, 3(1), pp.347-356.)- (ISI cited).
• Aghbashlo, M., Tabatabaei, M., Mohammadi, P., Mirzajanzadeh, M., Ardjmand, M. and Rashidi, A. (2016). Effect of an emission-reducing soluble hybrid nanocatalyst in diesel/biodiesel blends on exergetic performance of a DI diesel engine. (Renewable Energy, 93, pp.353-368)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 4.068).
• Dadak, A., Aghbashlo, M., Tabatabaei, M., Younesi, H. and Najafpour, G. (2016). Using exergy to analyse the sustainability of fermentative ethanol and acetate production from syngas via anaerobic bacteria (Clostridium ljungdahlii). (Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 15, pp.11-19)- (ISI-Scopus cited).
• S Shamshirband, M Tabatabaei, M Aghbashlo, L Yee, D Petković. (2016). Support vector machine-based exergetic modelling of a DI diesel engine running on biodiesel–diesel blends containing expanded polystyrene. (Applied Thermal Engineering 94, 727-747)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 3.034).
• Hamid Amiri, Reza Azarbaijani, Laleh Parsa Yeganeh, Abolhassan Shahzadeh Fazeli, Meisam Tabatabaei, Ghasem Hosseini Salekdeh, Keikhosro Karimi. (2016). Nesterenkonia sp. strain F, a halophilic bacterium producing acetone, butanol, and ethanol under aerobic conditions. (Scientific Reports 6, 18408; Nature Publishing Group)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.597).
• A Dadak, M Aghbashlo, M Tabatabaei, G Najafpour, H Younesi. (2016). Sustainability assessment of photobiological hydrogen production using anaerobic bacteria (Rhodospirillum rubrum) via exergy concept: Effect of substrate concentrations. (Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.745).
• M Aghbashlo, M Tabatabaei, K Karimi. (2016). Exergy-based sustainability assessment of ethanol production via Mucor indicus from fructose, glucose, sucrose, and molasses. (Energy)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.153).
• A Mortaza, S Hosseinpour, M Tabatabaei, H Younesi, G Najafpour. (2016). On the exergetic optimization of continuous photobiological hydrogen production using hybrid ANFISeNSGA-II (adaptive neuro-fuzzy Q4 inference systemenon-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II). (Energy)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.153).
• M Aghbashlo, M Tabatabaei, A Dadak, H Younesi, G Najafpour. (2016). Exergy-based performance analysis of a continuous stirred bioreactor for ethanol and acetate fermentation from syngas via Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. (Chemical Engineering Science)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.674).
• M Aghbashlo, M Tabatabaei, SS Hosseini, H Younesi, G Najafpour. (2016). Exergy analysis for decision making on operational condition of a continuous photobioreactor for hydrogen production via WGS reaction. (International Journal of Hydrogen Energy)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 3.659).
• M Aghbashlo, S Shamshirband, M Tabatabaei, L Yee, YN Larimi. (2016). The use of ELM-WT (extreme learning machine with wavelet transform algorithm) to predict exergetic performance of a DI diesel engine running on diesel/biodiesel blends containing polymer waste. (Energy, 94, 443-456)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.153).
• M Aghbashlo, M Tabatabaei, SS Hosseini, H Younesi, G Najafpour. (2016). Performance analysis of a continuous bioreactor for ethanol and acetate synthesis from syngas via Clostridium ljungdahlii using exergy concept. (Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 1-13)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.052).
• E Bet-moushoul, Y Mansourpanah, K Farhadi, M Tabatabaei. (2016). TiO2 nanocomposite based polymeric membranes: a review on performance improvement for various applications in chemical engineering processes. (Chemical Engineering Journal)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 4.621).
• Wan Siti Shazzelyn Aida Wan Sharifudin, Alawi Sulaiman, Noriznan Mokhtar, Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Meisam Tabatabaei, Zainuri Busu, Karuppuchamy Subbian. (2015). Presence of Residual Oil in Relation to Solid Particle Distribution in Palm Oil Mill Effluent. (BioResources 10 (4), 7591-7603)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.774).
• R Jaber, MMA Shirazi, J Toufaily, AT Hamieh, A Noureddin, H Ghanavati, A Ghaffari, A Zenouzi, A Karout, AF Ismail, M Tabatabaei. (2015). Biodiesel wash-water reuse using microfiltration: toward zero-discharge strategy for cleaner and economized biodiesel production. (Biofuel Research Journal 2 (1), 148-151)- (TR ISI: ESCI).
• Tabatabaei, M., Karimi, K., Kumar, R., & Horváth, I. S. (2015). Renewable Energy and Alternative Fuel Technologies. (BioMed Research International <previously: Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology>)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.750).
• M Mirzajanzadeh, M Tabatabaei, M Ardjmand, A Rashidi, B Ghobadianb, .... 2015. A novel soluble nano-catalysts in diesel–biodiesel fuel blends to improve diesel engines performance and reduce exhaust emissions. (Fuel, 139 (10.1016/j.fuel.2014.09.008), 374-382)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 4.091).
• Talebi, A. F., Tohidfar, M., Mousavi Derazmahalleh, S. M., Sulaiman, A., Baharuddin, A. S., & Tabatabaei, M. (2015). Biochemical Modulation of Lipid Pathway in Microalgae Dunaliella sp. for Biodiesel Production. (BioMed Research International <previously: Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology>)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.750).
• Adam, M. A., Sulaiman, A., Said, C. M. S., Som, A. M., & Tabatabaei, M. (2015). Enhanced Rigidity of Natural Polymer Composite Developed from Oil Palm Decanter Cake. (BioResources, 10(1), 932-942)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.774).
• Mansourpanah, Y., Kakanejadifard, A., Dehrizi, F. G., Tabatabaei, M., & Afarani, H. S. (2015). Increasing and enhancing the performance and antifouling characteristics of PES membranes using acrylic acid and microwave-modified chitosan. (Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, 32(1), 149-158)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.134).
• Mohammad M. Shirazi, Ali Kargari, Meisam Tabatabaei. 2015. Sweeping gas membrane distillation (SGMD) as an alternative for integration of bioethanol processing: study on a commercial membrane and operating parameters. (Chemical Engineering Communications)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 0.915).
• Hajjari, Masoumeh, Mehdi Ardjmand, and Meisam Tabatabaei. 2014. Experimental investigation of the effect of cerium oxide nanoparticles as a combustion-improving additive on biodiesel oxidative stability: mechanism. (RSC Advances, 4(28):14352-14356)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.652).
• M Tabatabaei, Y Chisti, AF Ismail, S Ramakrishna. 2014. Editorial. (Biofuel Research Journal). (TR ISI: ESCI).
• Sulaiman, Alawi, Nasuddin Othman, Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Mohd Noriznan Mokhtar, and Meisam Tabatabaei. 2014. Enhancing the Halal Food Industry by Utilizing Food Wastes to Produce Value-added Bioproducts. (Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 121: 35-43)- (ISI-Scopus cited).
• MMA Shirazi, A Kargari, M Tabatabaei, AF Ismail, T Matsuura. 2014. Concentration of glycerol from dilute glycerol wastewater using sweeping gas membrane distillation. (Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.197).
• MMA Shirazi, A Kargari, M Tabatabaei, AF Ismail, T Matsuura. 2014. Assessment of atomic force microscopy for characterization of PTFE membranes for membrane distillation (MD) process. (Desalination and Water Treatment)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 0.752).
• Sohrab Haghighi Mood, Amir Hossein Golfeshan, Meisam Tabatabaei, Saeed Abbasalizadeh, Mehdi Ardjmand, Gholamreza Salehi Jouzani. 2014. Comparison of different ionic liquids pretreatment for Corn Stover enzymatic saccharification. (Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 0.614).
• Pouya Mohammadi, Meisam Tabatabaei, Ali. M. Nikbakht, Zahra Esmaeili. 2014. Improvement of the cold flow characteristics of biodiesel containing dissolved polymer wastes using acetone. (Biofuel Research Journal). (TR ISI: ESCI).
• Mohammad Mahdi A. Shirazi Ali Kargari Meisam Tabatabaei. 2014. Evaluation of commercial PTFE membranes in desalination by direct contact membrane distillation. (Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.197).
• Sohrab Haghighi Mood; Amir Hossein Golfeshan; Meisam Tabatabaei, Gholamreza Salehi Jouzani, Gholamhassan Najafi, Mehdi Ardjmand, Mehdi Gholami. 2013. Lignocellulosic biomass to bioethanol; a comprehensive review on pretreatment. (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 7.896).
• Fatemeh Pakpour, Ghasem Najafpour, Meisam Tabatabaei, Masoud Tohidfar, Habiboallah Younesi. 2013. Biohydrogen production from CO-rich syngas via a locally isolated Rhodopseudomonas palustris PT. (Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.00).
• Mohammad Mahdi A. Shirazi, Ali Kargari, Meisam Tabatabaei, Saeed Bazgir, Mohammad Javad A. Shirazi, M.S. Abdullah, T. Matsuura, Ahmad Fauzi Ismail. 2013. Characterization of electrospun polystyrene membrane for treatment of biodiesel's water-washing effluent using atomic force microscopy. (Desalination)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 3.04).
• Mohammad Mahdi A. Shirazi, Ali Kargari, Meisam Tabatabaei, Bouck Mostafaei, Mandana Akia, Mohammad Barkhi,  Mohammad Javad A. Shirazi. 2013. Acceleration of biodiesel-glycerol decantation through NaCl-assisted gravitational settling: A strategy to economize biodiesel production. (Bioresource Technology)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.352).
• Mohammad Mahdi A. Shirazi, Dariush Bastani, Ali Kargari, Meisam Tabatabaei. 2013. Characterization of polymeric membranes for membrane distillation using atomic force microscopy. (Desalination and Water Treatment)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 0.752).
• Ahmad Farhad Talebi, Masoud Tohidfar, Meisam Tabatabaei, Abdolreza Bagheri, Motahhareh Mohsenpor, Seyed Kaveh Mohtashami. 2013. Genetic manipulation, a feasible tool to enhance unique characteristic of Chlorella vulgaris as a feedstock for biodiesel production. (Molecular Biology Report)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.929).
• Sayed Mohammad Sahafi, Sayed Amir Hossein Goli, Meisam Tabatabaei, Ali Mohammad     Nikbakht, Navid Pourvosoghi. 2013. Treatment of Waste cooking oil and spent bleaching for biodiesel Production. (Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 0.614).
• Pouya Mohammadi, Meisam Tabatabaei, Ali M. Nikbakht, Khalil Farhadi, Mehdi Khatami far, Marco Castaldi. Simultaneous energy recovery from waste polymers in biodiesel and improving fuel properties. 2013 .(Waste and Biomass Valorization)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (unofficial Impact Factor: 1.47).
• Ahmad Farhad Talebi, Seyed Kaveh Mohtashami, Meisam Tabatabaei, Masoud Tohidfar, Abdolreza Bagheri, Mehrshad Zeinalabedini, Hossein Hadavand, Mehrdad Mirzajanzadeh, Shiva Bakhtiari. 2013. Fatty Acids Profiling; a Selective Criterion for Screening Microalgae Strains for Biodiesel Production. (Algal Research)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 4.095).
• Yaghoub Mansourpanah, H. Soltani Afarani, K. Alizadeh, M. Tabatabaei. 2013. Enhancing the performance and antifouling properties of nanoporous PES membranes using microwave-assisted grafting of chitosan (Desalination)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 3.04).
• Elham Mirtalebi, Mohammad Mahdi A. Shirazi, Ali Kargari, Meisam Tabatabaei, Seeram Ramakrishna. 2013. Assessment of atomic force and scanning electron microscopes for characterization of commercial and electrospun nylon membranes. (Desalination and Water Treatment)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.04).
• Sohrab Haghighi Mood, Amir Hossein Golfeshan, Meisam Tabatabaei, Saeed Abbasalizadeh, Mehdi Ardjmand. 2013. Comparison of different ionic liquids pretreatment for barley straw enzymatic sacharification. (3 Biotech)– (Springer- Scopus cited). (Impact Factor: 0.992).
• Ahmad Farhad Talebi, Meisam Tabatabaei, Seyed Kaveh Mohtashami, Masoud Tohidfar, Foad Moradi. 2013. Comparative Salt Stress Study on Intracellular Ion Concentration in Marine and Salt-adapted Freshwater Strains of Microalgae. (Notulae Scientia Biologicae)– (Scopus cited).
• Javani, A.,  Hasheminejad, M., Tahvildari, K., Tabatabaei, M.,  Mansourpanah, Y., Khatami far, M. 2012. High quality potassium phosphate production through step-by-step glycerol purification: A strategy to economize biodiesel production. (Bioresource Technology)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.352).
• Mehdi Hosseini, Ali Mohammad Nikbakht, Meisam Tabatabaei. 2012. Biodiesel Production in Batch Tank Reactor Equipped to Helical Ribbon-like Agitator. (Modern Applied Science, 6(3): 40-45)–(Scopus cited).
• Pouya Mohammadi, Ali M. Nikbakht, Meisam Tabatabaei, Khalil Farhadi. 2012. A Novel Diesel Fuel Additive to Improve Fuel Properties and to Reduce Emissions. (International Journal of Automotive Engineering).
• Pouya Mohammadi, Ali M. Nikbakht, Meisam Tabatabaei, Khalil Farhadi and Mahdi Khatamifar. 2012. Experimental Investigation of Performance and Emission Characteristics of DI Diesel Engine Fueled with Polymer Waste dissolved in Biodiesel-Blended Diesel Fuel. (Energy)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 3.858).
• Meisam Hashemi Nejad, Meisam Tabatabaei, Yaghoub Mansourpanah, Mehdi Khatami far and Azita Javani. 2011. Upstream and Downstream Strategies to economize Biodiesel Production. (Bioresource Technology- 102(2), pp: 461-468)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 5.352).
• Meisam Tabatabaei, Masoud Toohidfar, Gholamreza Salehi Zouzani, Mohammad Pazouki and Mohammadreza Safarnejad. 2011. Bioediesel Production from genetically engineered microalgae; the future of bioenergy in Iran. (Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews- 15(4), pp: 1918-1927)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 7.896).
• Norjan, Y., Hassan, M.A., Phang,L.Y. Meisam Tabatabaei, Othman, M.R., Mori, M., Wakisaka, M. , Sakai, K., and Shirai, Y. 2011. Nitrification Of High-Strength Ammonium From Mature Sanitary Landfill Leachate With Organic Carbon Removal. (Waste Management and Research)–(ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.529).
• Kamyar Khoshnevisana, Abdol-Khalegh Bordbara, Davood Zare, Daryiush Davoodi, Masumeh Noruzi, Mohammad Barkhi and Meisam Tabatabaei. 2011. Immobilization of cellulase enzyme on superparamagnetic nanoparticles and determination of its activity and stability. (Chemical Engineering Journal)- (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 3.681).
• Norjan, Y., Hassan, M.A., Phang,L.Y. Meisam Tabatabaei, Othman, M.R., Mori, M., Wakisaka, M. , Sakai, K., and Shirai, Y. 2010. Nitrification of ammonium-rich sanitary landfill leachate. (Waste management- 30, pp:100–109)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 2.801).
• Alawi Sulaiman, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mohd Zulkhairi Mohd Yusoff, Mohamad Faizal Ibrahim, Mohd Ali Hassan and Yoshihito Shirai. 2010. Accelerated start-up of a semi-commercial digester tank treating palm oil mill with sludge seeding for methane production. (World Applied Science Journal- 8(2), pp: 247-258)– (ISI-Scopus cited).
• Meisam Tabatabaei, Mohd Rafein Zakaria, Raha Abdul Rahim, André-Denis G. Wright, Yoshihito Shirai, Norhani Abdullah, Mehdi Shamsara, Kenji Sakai and Mohd Ali Hassan . 2010. Comparative Study of Methods for Extraction and Purification of Environmental DNA from Wastewater Sludge (African Journal of Biotechnology- 9(31), pp: 4926-4937)–(ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 0.794).
• Meisam Tabatabaei, Raha Abdul Rahim, André-Denis G. Wright, Yoshihito Shirai, Norhani Abdullah, Alawi Sulaiman, Kenji Sakai and Mohd Ali Hassan. 2010. Importance of the methanogenic archaea populations in anaerobic wastewater treatments (Process Biochemistry- 45(8), pp: 1214-1225)– (ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 3.225).
• Meisam Tabatabaei, Mohd Rafein Zakaria, Raha Abdul Rahim, André-Denis G. Wright, Yoshihito Shirai, Norhani Abdullah, Kenji Sakai, Shinya Ikeno, Masatsugu Mori, Nakamura Kazunori, Alawi Sulaiman and Mohd Ali Hassan. 2009. PCR-Based DGGE and FISH Analysis of Methanogens in Anaerobic Closed Digester Tank Treating Palm Oil Mill Effluent (POME). (Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, vol. 12, no. 3). Available from Internet: http://www.ejbiotechnology.cl/content/vol12/ issue3/full/4/index.html. ISSN 0717-3458.(ISI-Scopus cited)(5-Year Impact Factor: 1.343)
• Alawi Sulaiman, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mohd Ali Hassan, Yoshihito Shirai. 2009. The Influence of Higher Sludge Recycling Rate on Anaerobic Treatment of Palm Oil Mill Effluent in a Semi-Commercial Single Stage Digester for Renewable Energy (American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology- 5(1), pp: 1-6) (Scopus cited).
• Alawi Sulaiman, Mohd Ali Hassan, Yoshihito Shirai, Suraini Abd-Aziz, Meisam Tabatabaei, Zainuri Busu and Shahrakbah Yacob. 2009. The Effect of Mixing on Methane Production in a Semi-commercial Closed Digester Tank Treating Palm Oil Mill Effluent. (Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences- 3(3), pp:1577-1583) (ISI-Scopus cited).
• Azhari Samsu Baharuddin, Nakamura Kazunori, Meisam Tabatabaei, Suraini Abd-Aziz, Nor’ Aini Abdul Rahman, Mohd Ali Hassan, Kenji Sakai and Yoshihito Shirai. 2009. Characteristics and microbial succession in co-composting of oil palm empty fruit bunch and partially treated palm oil mill effluent. (Open Biotechnology Journal- 3, pp: 87-95) –(Scopus cited).
• Mohd Rafein Zakaria, Meisam Tabatabaei, Yoshihito Shirai, and Mohd Ali Hassan. 2009. Polyhydroxyalkanoate production from anaerobically treated palm oil mill effluent by new bacterial strain Comamonas sp. EB172 (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology- 26(5), pp: 767-774)–(ISI-Scopus cited). (5-Year Impact Factor: 1.602)

زبان های خارجی:

1. مسلط به زبان انگلیسی (IELTS 7.5) با تمامی موارد بالاتر از 7.0
2. دارای مدرک ترجمه همزمان انگلیسی-فارسی و بالعکس
3. تسلط نسبی به زبان فرانسه

افتخارات کسب شده:

1. رتبه اول کنکور کارشناسی ارشد سال 1381
2. نمره پایان نامه کارشناسی ارشد 3/19
3. نمره پایان نامه دکتری 56/19
4. عضو بنیاد ملی نخبگان (مخترع سطح 3 بنیاد ملی نخبگان ایران)
5. بورس تحصیلی مرکز استعداد درخشان دانشگاه صنعتی اصفهان (1378،1379،1380 و 1381)
6. دریافت گرنت تحقیقاتی از مرکز استعداد درخشان دانشگاه صنعتی اصفهان (1380)
7. جوان برتر استان البرز 1392
8. کسب دو مدال طلا در بزرگترین مسابقات اختراعات آمریکا INPEX که در ژوئن 2012 در شهر پیتسبرگ ایالت پنسیلوانیا برگزار شد.
   • INPEX^® 2012 Gold Medal- Diesel ⁵⁺ Fuel Additive
   • INPEX^® 2012 Gold Medal- Pro Spinning Tube in Tube (Pro-STT) Reactor for the Production of Biodiesel and Glycerin
9. دریافت نشان دولتی "لوح زرین سپاس" از رئیس جمهور در سال 1390
10. اختراع برتر چهارمین جشنواره ملی نوآوری و شکوفایی فجر انقلاب اسلامی 1390 و دریافت تندیس از معونت علمی ریاست جمهوری
11. درج بیوگرافی در کتاب Marquis Who’s Who In the World- 
    • Marquis Who's Who in the World profiles those men and women who are influencing their nation's development.
12. اختراع برتر کشور و ارائه در نمایشگاه انحصاری بنیاد ملی نخبگان (90 اختراع برتر کشور) در حضور رئیس جمهور محترم کابینه محترم
13. نمره پایان نامه دکتری 56/19
14. مدال برنز  The PECIPTA 2009 (International Exposition of Research and Invention of Institutions of Higher Learning, 2009))
15. کسب دو مدال طلا در نمایشگاه اختراعات The Invention, Research and Innovation Exhibition (PRPI 2009)
16. Graduate Research fellowship, UPM, Malaysia  (July 2007 – January 2009)
17. نماینده دانشگاه تربیت مدرس تهران در NGO استعداد درخشان کشور
18. رتبه اول دانشگاه تربیت مدرس تهران (1382 و 1383)
19. نمره پایان نامه کارشناسی ارشد 3/19
20. رتبه اول کنکور کارشناسی ارشد سال 1381
21. اعطای مجوز گذراندن واحدهای دوره کارشناسی ارشد در دوره کارشناسی توسط مرکز استعداد درخشان دانشگاه صنعتی اصفهان (1381)
22. دریافت گرنت تحقیقاتی از مرکز استعداد درخشان دانشگاه صنعتی اصفهان (1380)
23. بورس تحصیلی مرکز استعداد درخشان دانشگاه صنعتی اصفهان (1378،1379،1380 و 1381)

فعالیتهای رسانه ای:

1. کارشناس برنامه رادیویی راه شب، رادیو ایران-  از اسفند 1390- 1391
2. کارشناس برنامه گروه دانش، رادیو ایران-  از 1391- 1392
3. مجری-کارشناس شبکه سراسری رادیو دانش-  از تیرماه 1392- آذر ماه 1393
4. مجری - شبکه سراسری رادیو جوان-  1394- تا کنون

کتابها:

Biogas: Fundamentals, Process, and Operation

Editors: Hossein Ghanavati & Meisam Tabatabaei

(Publisher: Springer-Nature (2017

Contract No.: 61102

Biodiesel: from Production to Combustion

Editors: Meisam Tabatabaei & Mortaza Aghbashlo

(Publisher: Springer-Nature (2017

Contract No.: 61743

Fungi in Fuel Biotechnology

Editors: Meisam Tabatabaei, Gholamreza Salehi Jouzani & Mortaza Aghbashlo

(Publisher: Springer-Nature (2018

Contract No.: 67194

فصل کتاب:

1. Meisam Tabatabaei, Alawi Sulaiman, Ali Mohammad Nikbakht, Norjan Yousef, and Ghasem Najafpour. 2011. Influential Parameters on Biomethane Generation in Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment Plants. In Alternative Fuel, Book edited by Maximino Manzanera, ISBN: 978-953-307-347-7 (INTECH, Croatia).
2. Mohammad M. A. Shirazi, Meisam Tabatabaei. 2014. Green Energy. In Energy Science and Technology (Vol. 1), Book edited by U.C. Sharma, Shiva Kumar and Ram Prasad. Stadium Press LLC, USA.  

3. Mohammad M. A. Shirazi, Meisam Tabatabaei. 2014. Wind and Biomass. In Energy Science and Technology (Vol. 6), Book edited by U.C. Sharma, Shiva Kumar and Ram Prasad. Stadium Press LLC, USA.
4. Arash Mollahosseini, Meisam Tabatabaei and Ghasem Najafpour. 2015. Biofuel Production. In: Ghasem Najafpour, (Ed.). Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Elsevier.
5. Mandana Akia, Esmail Khalife, Meisam Tabatabaei. 2017.  An overview of the recent advances in the application of metal oxide nanocatalysts for biofuel production. In: Nanotechnology for Bioenergy and Biofuel Production. Springer International Publishing Switzerland. (DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-45459-7_12).