Dr Jairan Nafar Dastgerdi

Dr. Jairan Nafar Dastgerdi attained her Doctor of Science (Technology) in Mechanical Engineering (Mechanics of Material) from Aalto University in 2016 under the prestigious Finnish National Graduate Program of Engineering Mechanics Scholarship Award. Her research was focused on the Mechanical Modelling of Light-Weight Metal Matrix Composites. In 2015, she enriched her knowledge and experience as a guest researcher in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the National University of Singapore for six months.

Dastgerdi worked for three years as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Aalto University. During this period, she started working on 3D material Design and characterization using X-ray microtomography. In October 2019, she sought to broaden her experience, and she moved to Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT, Tehran Polytechnic) as a Tenure-track Assistant Professor. She received a financial award from the Elite Foundation of Iran for young assistant professors to extend their research group. She started her research on the damage mechanism in metal additive manufactured parts subjected to cyclic and monotonic loadings. She was the Head of the Structural Mechanics, Flight Mechanics, and Control group of the Aerospace Engineering Department at AUT (Tehran Polytechnic) for the last year.

Dr Dastgerdi's main research field is Mechanics of Materials, an interdisciplinary field in Mechanics and Material Science. Her research interests primarily include Material Design and Characterization, Damage Mechanics, Fatigue and Fracture, and Computational Finite Element Modeling. She has researched polymer– and metal–matrix composites reinforced with fibers and particles, high-strength steel, and additively manufactured metals. Moreover, she has extensive experience in fatigue testing, in-situ cracks growth observation, electron microscopy, SEM, and X-ray micro-tomography as a robust modern nondestructive technique to characterize three-dimensional microstructure, internal defects, surface roughness, and damage progression under monotonic and fatigue loadings for different materials.

Please check out her Google Scholar or ResearchGate Page for further information about her research.

Dr Dastgerdi has several years of experience in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate modules and mentoring under/postgraduate students in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering courses.

Her current teaching responsibilities include: EENG5220, Design and Manufacturing Technologies During the past three years at AUT (Tehran Polytechnic), she was usually the first-ranked teacher based on the students' feedback on her teaching.

Dr Dastgerdi has had the experience of being a supervisor/co-supervisor/advisor of several PhD/postgraduate students in her different academic roles. Some of these projects are listed below: - 

• Fatigue damage mechanism of metal additively manufactured parts
• Anisotropic polycrystal plasticity due to microstructural heterogeneity in additively manufactured metallic materials
• Mechanical behaviour of polymer-based core of sandwich structures coated with metal under low-cycle fatigue loading
• Post-buckling analysis and evaluation of final strength of composite plates and structures using finite strip method

If you are a Ph.D. candidate interested in any of the following research areas, you can contact Dr. Dastgerdi directly.

• Material Design and Characterization
• Mechanics of Materials
• Fatigue and Fracture
• Additive Manufacturing Technologies
• Composite Materials
• Damage Mechanics