Amir Niroumand Bio

Amir Niroumand
Abundance Community Farm

Dr. Amir Niroumand is recognized as a social entrepreneur with a primary interest in utilizing food as a tool for changing cultural values and norms for transitioning to a sustainable society. In 2016, he founded Abundance Community Farm in Agassiz, BC, as a social experiment in creating a community culture that thrives in harmony with nature. The farm operates based on a novel Community Agriculture (CA) model leveraging the interdependence between regenerative agriculture, community development, and the healing arts. The CA model has gained a lot of interest in both the wider urban and farming communities, and was recently featured on the cover of BC’s main agriculture magazine, Country Life in BC.

Dr. Niroumand is also a fuel cell scientist, where he leads cutting edge R&D programs between academia and industry. He is currently a Research Associate at SFU, leading the development of Intelligent Fuel Cell Diagnostics in collaboration with Greenlight Innovation, University of British Columbia, and Jülich Research Centre in Germany.