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Reza Shahbazian-Yassar
Associate Professor
Michigan Technological University
USA
Biography
Dr. Reza Shahbazian-Yassar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Michigan Technological University. He received his PhD (with honor) in Materials Science from Washington State University in Pullman, WA, in Dec 2005. He completed his BS (with honor) and MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. Prior to joining Michigan Tech, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems at Mississippi State University. He also spent summer 2004 as a research intern at the Division of Materials Research at Alcoa Technical Center in Pittsburgh, PA. Prof. Shahbazian-Yassar is the current Chair of the Advanced Characterization, Testing, and Simulation (ACTS) Committee at The Materials Society (TMS), which oversees a number of activities, and sessions at three international conferences per year (ICOTOM, MS&T, and TMS). He also served two years as the chair of Microstructure and Texture Committee of American Society of Materials (ASM). He is also a member of Editorial Board for Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, and has served as ad hoc reviewer for more than 13 journals in the field of materials and mechanical engineering (ACS Nano, Chemistry of Materials, Nanotechnology, etc). Dr. Shahbazian-Yassar has delivered more than 20 invited talks and has organized symposiums in several international conferences including TMS 2013, TMS 2012, TMS 2011, TMS 2007, and ISDT 2009. He has served as a Guest Editor for two special issue journals: Journal of Materials Research (2011) and Materials Science and Engineering A (2008). Dr. Yassar has also served in 12 review panels for Division of Materials Research (DMR), Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI), Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET), and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs of NSF.
Research Interest
Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Systems (Rechargeable Batteries, Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells), Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Nanogenerators, Nanomaterials for Nanoelectronics, and Biomaterials.