The amount of volatiles and the dynamics of bubbles play a significant role on the transition between different volcanic eruption behaviors. The transport of exsolved volatiles through zoned magma chambers is complex and remains poorly constrained. Salah, in his PhD study, mainly focuses on the different transport of volatiles under two end member regimes: crystal-poor systems (bubbles form a suspension) versus crystal-rich reservoirs (multiphase porous media flow). To contrast the differences between the transports of exsolved volatiles in both regimes, the transport of a non-wetting phase in suspensions and porous media are characterized, separately, and then the effect of the transition zone on the over all flux is taken into account. 

Investigating the dynamics of multi-particle systems to correctly integrate the effect of particle interactions on the rheological, mechanical and thermal properties of condensed matter  is another aspect of his research interest.

Salah completed his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Urmia University (Iran) in 2009, his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology (Iran) in 2011, and recently completed another M.S. in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech.