Reza Mirzaeifar

Education:

• Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013
• M.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Tehran Polytechnic, 2006
• B.Sc. - Mechanical Engineering, University of Kerman, 2004

Professional History:

• 2021-present, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
• 2014-2021, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
• 2013-2014, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technolog
• 2010-2013, Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2012, Visiting Researcher, California Institute of Technology
• 2009-2010, Visiting Scholar, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2006-2009, Research Engineer, Tehran Polytechnic 

Awards & Honors:

Mechanics of Materials most cited articles published since 2009
2013 – U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics Travel Award
2011 – National Science Foundation Student Participation Grant
2010 – >Anne Robinson Clough Conference Grant

Research Interests

• Metal-Graphene Composites
• Additively Manufactured Metals
  
• Shape Memory Polymers
• Metallic Thin Films
• Mechanics of Cells and Tissues
• Multiscale Computational Modeling

See Dr. Mirzaeifar's publications and research on Google Scholar and his group's website Future Materials Laboratory.