Reza Mirzaeifar
Associate Professor
- John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow
- Thrust Area Specialty: Design Materials and Manufacturing
213B Goodwin Hall (0238)
635 Prices Fork Road
Blacksburg, VA 24061
635 Prices Fork Road
Blacksburg, VA 24061
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.
- 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
- 2021-present: John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow
- 2017 - Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program Award
- 2013 - U.S. National Congress on Computational Mathematics Travel Award
- 2011 - National Science Foundation Student Participation Grant
- 2010 - Anne Robinson Clough Conference Grant
- Ph.D. - Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013
- M.S. - Mechanical Engineering, Tehran Polytechnic, 2006
- B.Sc. - Mechanical Engineering, University of Kerman, 2004