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Dr. Darshan Chalapathi

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Email: subbi1darshan@gmail.com

Darshan’s research centers around investigating the high-temperature performance of metal alloys used in small modular nuclear reactors using a combination of in-situ experimental techniques and microstructure-informed finite element numerical models. Darshan joined MSDL in Sptember 2023 from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), where he obtained his doctorate degree. His PhD thesis was focused on comprehending the deformation behaviour of duplex stainless steels from the viewpoint of microstructure, morphology and texture evolution. He achieved this and published many papers using a combination of both experiments any crystal plasticity modelling.

Karim Louca

PhD 

Saiedeh Marashi

PhD Candidate 

Saiedeh's reseach focuses on the micromechanics of fracture of polycrystals. She received her BSc and MSc degrees from Sharif University of Technology in civil engineering and structural engineering, respectively. Before joinig MSDL in 2021, her field of study was mechanics of materials, computational mechanics and more specificaly, micromechnics of defects in solids.  

Bolin Fu

PhD Candidate

Bolin's research focuses on the high temperature application of metal alloys used in Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. Bolin got his bachelor's degree from Hefei University of Technology and received his MESc from Western in 2020.

Masoud TaheriJam

PhD Candidate 

Masoud is currently working on advanced CPFE modeling of hydrogen diffusion in metals and alloys. He obtained his MSc in Structural Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and his BSc in Civil Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology. Before joining MSDL, he studied augmented continuum mechanics and wave propagation in solids.

Amirhosein Mozafari

PhD Candidate (Direct PhD program)

Amirhosein's current project focuses on additive manufacturing of nickel superalloys used in gas turbines and advanced finite element modeling. Before joining MSDL in September 2022, he studied and published papers in the area of energy absorption and crashworthiness behaviour of thin-walled structures. 

Brandon Kuo

PhD Student (Direct PhD program)

Brandon's research focuses on investigating the effects of hydride precipitates in zirconium alloys using in-situ synchrotron X-ray and electron diffraction techniques coupled with finite element modeling. Brandon joined MSDL in 2022 while completing his BESc at Western and joined our direct PhD program in 2023.

Amin Ghanbari

PhD Student

Email: amin.mec92@gmail.com

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Amin received his BSc degree in mechanical engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2017 and then received his MSc degree n mechanical engineering, applied design and solid mechanics, from Iran University of Science and Technology in 2023. His thesis was about fracture analysis of notched samples produced by FDM method. Amin's research currently focuses on the micromechanics of fracture of polycrystalline materials using both advanced numerical techniques and experimental methods.

Khaled El-Sobahi

MESc student 

Khaled's current project focuses on multiaxial deformation of metal alloys. Khaled holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lebanese University and joined MSDL in September 2022.

Cheng-Hao Liang

MESc student 

Email: clian6@uwo.ca

 Dr. Sterling St Lawrence 

Cheng-Hao’s research focuses on the micromechanics of zirconium hydrides. He received his BESc from the National Taiwan Ocean University, and joined MSDL in September 2023. 

 MEng Studnets: 

 Tapas Bhavsar and Jonathan Fernando (2023)

Sofia Di Stasi