Strasbourg University, France
by Prof. Said Ahzi, Strasbourg University, France.
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Dr. Said Ahzi joined QEERI at Qatar Foundation on August 2014. He holds a joint full professor position with college of science and engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He was previously at the University of Strasbourg where he holds a position as a distinguished full Professor (Exceptional Class). Dr. Said Ahzi received his PhD (1987) and Habilitation (1995) degrees in Physics and Mechanics and of Materials, both from the University of Metz, France. In January 2000, he joined the University of Strasbourg – France, Faculty of Physics and Engineering. He holds an Adjunct Professor position with the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech.), Atlanta – USA. He also was an associate research member with TEMA laboratory at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. From 1995 to 2000, he held the position of Professor (Assistant Professor then Associate Professor) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University, SC, USA. Prior to this, he spent four years as Research Scientists/Lecturer at the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences at UCSD (University of California at San Diego, CA, USA) and four years as Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA).
Dr. Said Ahzi is a member of several professional societies including the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), the European Association for Dynamic Behavior of Materials and its Applications (DYMAT), Materials Research Society (MRS), the French Association for Mechanics (AFM). He is an associate editor for two international journals (Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Int. J. of Theoretical and Applied Multiscale Mechanics).
The research interests are in the general area of materials science and processing with applications to energy, environment, nanotechnology, biomedical, and industrial applications such as aerospace and automotive. Specific areas include, but not limited to: Development of multiscale and multiphysics approaches; Integrated Computational Materials engineering and design; Microstructure sensitive design of materials; Bridging microstructure, properties and processing; Thermal analysis of materials and structures; Systems optimization and design. He published more than 250 publications and has an H-index=46.