Dr. Ghodrat, S.

Assistant Professor
Department Design Engineering
Section Emerging Materials

My academic career started with a study in Metallurgy and Materials Engineering at the University of Tehran, where I graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in September 2000. Three years later, in September 2003, I finished my MSc in Materials Science and Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST).

I have accumulated five years of working experience in the automotive, oil and gas industrial sectors as material specialist and quality engineer in Tehran, Iran. 

In February 2009, I started my doctoral research at the Material Innovation Institute (M2i), associated with the Materials Science and Engineering department of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). In June 2013, I defended my PhD on Thermo-Mechanical Fatigue of Compacted Graphite Iron in diesel engine components.

From March 2013 till March 2018, I carried out 5 years of postdoctoral research at Delft University of Technology in the same department where I did my PhD. In my postdoc, I continued and expanded my study of thermo-mechanical fatigue by microstructural characterization of fatigue crack morphology with the innovative technique of wide-field 3D orientation contrast microscopy.

I have worked for 6 months at “npk design bv” in Leiden and since October 2018, I have started working as an assistant professor in the Emerging Materials group of the Department of Design Engineering of TU-Delft, with a research interest in smart materials, focusing on Shape Memory Alloys.

• 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