Dr Nima Haghdadi | UNSW Research

Biography

I am a senior lecturer in engineering alloys at Imperial College London, UK. I also hold an adjunct senior lectureship position with the School of Materials Science & Engineering at UNSW. I was awarded my PhD in 2017 from Deakin University (Australia), for a thesis on thermo-mechanical processing of duplex stainless steels. I am a former Victoria Fellow and Alfred Deakin Research Fellow, and recipient of Thermo Fisher Scientific Cowley-Moodie award for an outstanding contribution to physical sciences using Electron Microscopy in Australia (2018). In the last six years I have also been a visiting scientist at The University of British Columbia and McGill University in Canada, Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH in Germany and TU-Vienna in Austria. I was the lead researcher of the UNSW-based team of the AUSMURI project (2018-2023) on the role of interfaces during additive manufacturing.

My Qualifications

Ph.D., Institute for Frontier Materials, Deakin University, VIC, Australia (2014 - 2017)
M.Sc., University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran ( 2010 - 2013)

My Awards

Victoria Fellowship, Victoria’s Government financial support for a study mission in a world-class overseas laboratory (2018)
Cowley-Moodie award, for an outstanding contribution to Physical Sciences through electron microscopy (2018)
Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2018)
Finalist for the “Victoria’s International Student of the Year” recognized by Victoria’s Government (2017)
Acta Materialia Student Award (2017)
Runner-up in the competition for the Philosophical Magazine’s James Clerk Maxwell Writers Prize (2017)
Finalist for the Alfred Deakin Medal for the best doctoral thesis with significant research impact, Deakin University (2017)
Graduate Dean's Entrance Scholarship, College of graduate studies, The University of British Columbia (2013)
University Graduate Fellowship, College of graduate studies, The University of British Columbia (2013)
Best Masters Student Research Award, School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, University of Tehran (2012)
Institute for Frontier Materials’ early career research (ECR) award to attend THERMEC conference in Paris, France (2018)
Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society’s Award to attend IMC19 conference in Sydney (2018)
Institute for Frontier Materials’ Publication Scholarship (2017)
Best Student Research Award in the 6th International Conference on Recrystallization and Grain Growth (ReX&GG 2016), Pittsburgh, USA (2016)
Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society’s bursary to attend ACMM24 conference in Melbourne (2016)
Institute for Frontier Materials’ Travel Award to undertake research at McGill University (2016)

My Research Activities

Additive manufacturing; Thermomechanical processing; Phase transformations in metallic materials; Grain boundary and interface engineering; Wear resistance of metallic materials; High Entropy Alloys

See http://www.engineeringmicrostructures.com and https://www.3dadditive.com.au