DrNima Haghdadi

Dr Nima Haghdadi is an Associate Professor in Metallurgy and the Senior Tutor for postgraduate taught (MSc) students in the Department of Materials at Imperial College. He joined Imperial in February 2024 as a Senior Lecturer. He also holds an adjunct academic position with UNSW Sydney in Australia, where he previously was a lecturer, deputy group leader and postdoctoral research fellow from 2019 to 2024. Prior to that, Dr. Haghdadi held positions as a Deakin University Vice-Chancellor (Alfred-Deakin) Fellow and a Victoria Fellow from 2017 to 2019, during which he conducted the overseas part of his fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH in Germany. He earned his PhD from the Institute for Frontier Materials at Deakin University, Australia in 2017.

Dr. Haghdadi is the recipient of several awards including the TMS Young Innovator in the Materials Science of Additive Manufacturing award, the TFS Cowley-Moodie award for an outstanding contribution to physical sciences using electron microscopy, and the Acta Materialia student award. His contributions have been published in leading physical metallurgy journals as viewpoint, review and research articles, and he has presented numerous invited talks at international conferences, including Thermec, ACMM, PMS, Rex&GG, CAMS, PRICM, TMS and APICAM.

With a broad and deep expertise spanning fundamental discovery and applied industry research, Dr. Haghdadi's team aims to establish a conceptual bridge between microstructure-property relationships across thermo-mechanical processing and additive manufacturing pathways in various metallic materials systems with applications in aerospace, automotive, mining, energy, and biomedical sectors. Some of the materials of interest are advanced steels, Ni alloys, Ti alloys, Cu alloys, and high entropy alloys. His group's focus lies particularly on interface and grain boundary engineering and its impact on materials' performance and durability. Dr. Haghdadi has supervised 7 PhD students (2 Dean's awardees for outstanding PhD thesis) and 7 honours/MSc (1 university medalist) students. He serves as an editor for the Springer’s Journal of Materials Science, and is an active member of different professional organisations such as Materials Australia and the TMS.

Feel free to get in touch (n.haghdadi@imperial.ac.uk) if you are interested in joining Dr. Haghdadi's group.