Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi (Persian: محمود نیلی احمدآبادی; born 1956) is a professor of metallurgy at the University of Tehran,[1][2][3] who served as the President of University of Tehran from 2014 to 2021.

He is former head of the Center for Excellence for Higher Performance Material at the University of Tehran.

[4] In October 2021, the then president of the University of Tehran, Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, wrote a letter to Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, the head of the Islamic Republic's judiciary, demanding the release of Kasra Nouri, a student prisoner, and a day later the president of the University of Tehran was fired.

After obtaining a BSc degree from University of Shiraz in 1982, he started working for revolutionary institutes.

Mahmoud Nili has written more than 70 scholarly articles.