Rate My Professor Hamid Asadi

Professor Hamid Assadi is Professor of Solidification and Head of the Virtual Engineering Centre at Brunel University London, affiliated with the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology (BCAST). He earned a PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge in 1996, after studying Materials Engineering at Shiraz University. His professional career encompasses a professorship at Tarbiat Modares University, as well as visiting appointments at Helmut Schmidt University, RWTH Aachen University, Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, and the German Aerospace Centre. Between 2007 and 2016, he held the position of Professor of Metals Technology at Helmut Schmidt University prior to joining Brunel. Among his honors, he received a Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2004.

Professor Assadi possesses over thirty years of experience in multiphysics modelling of dynamic systems, spanning materials processing and vehicular traffic, through techniques including cellular automata, phase-field methods, and mean-field theory. His research specializations include the underlying mechanisms of dynamic materials phenomena such as disorder and solute trapping in rapid solidification of alloys and intermetallics, cold spray deposition, mechanical properties of materials, and microstructure evolution. He has supervised PhD research in physics-informed neural networks for materials processing and served as principal investigator for projects like the Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub and co-investigator in the Liquid Metal Engineering Hub. He delivered keynote lectures, including 'Journey Through Cold Spray Research' at the North American Cold Spray Conference in 2024. Key publications feature 'Comment on “Adiabatic shear instability is not necessary for bonding in cold spray”' (Acta Materialia, 2018), 'Strength gradient in impact-induced metallic bonding' (Nature Communications, 2024), 'Influence of Binding Energies on Required Process Conditions in Cold Spray' (Journal of Thermal Spray Technology, 2024), 'Gradient-Based Calibration of a Precipitation Hardening Model' (Materials, 2025), and 'Phase-Field Modelling of Bimodal Dendritic Solidification during High-Pressure Die Casting' (Metals, 2025).