Professor Dabir Tehrani retired from IPE on 1st October 2007. He had been with the Institute since 1983 when he moved from Britoil. Prof. Patrick Corbett spoke on behalf of the staff and students at his retirement celebration.

Patrick was a PhD student himself and remembers his own viva with the recollection of a certain but appropriate degree of pain! The staff members across the Institute certainly have a lot of memories of Dabir as a supervisor, mentor, colleague and friend.  Patrick noted that Dabir can be considered a "thesis great-grandfather" - being the teacher of Prof. Ali Danesh, Prof. Bahman Tohidi, Dr Fatollah Gozalpour, Dr Mehran Shorabi, and Dr Jami Almady. .