Dr. Ghodrat, S.

Assistant Professor
Department Design Engineering
Section Emerging Materials

Her main research interests are Smart Materials and Shape Morphing Design in emerging materials group at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering.

Prior to joining IDE in October 2018, Sepideh Ghodrat has studied for her PhD and worked as a Postdoc in the Materials Science and Engineering department of the 3mE Faculty at Delft University of Technology. Her previous research included a wide range of topics: material properties, fracture and failure analysis, characterization techniques such as advanced mechanical testing including fatigue and thermo-mechanical fatigue. In addition to mechanical characterization, she also acquired ample experience with microscopic observation techniques (e.g. electron microscopy) in order to obtain a better understanding of the performance of materials under various loading conditions.

• Feb 2009 – Feb 2013
  PhD Materials Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology
  Project Title: Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue of Compacted Graphite Iron in Diesel Engine Components

• October 2018 – present
  Assistant professor, Emerging Materials, Design Engineering, TU Delft
• April 2018 – October 2018
  npk design bv
  
• March 2013 – March 2018
  Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Delft University of Technology and Ghent University (UGent), Belgium

• Smart Materials: Shape Memory Alloys
• Materials Testing Properties and Characterization Techniques
• Material Driven Design (MDD) 
• Additive Manufacturing
• Designing Shape Morphing Objects