Hamid Abdolvand is a Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials for Low-Emission Energies. He is a faculty member of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department. His research focuses on deformation and failure mechanisms of engineering materials across length and time scales. Before joining Western Engineering, he was a postdoc researcher at the University of Oxford where he spent three years working on electron and synchrotron x-ray diffraction analysis of engineering materials. Prior to Oxford, he worked at the University of Manchester, developing finite element codes for Rolls-Royce Plc and AMEC-Europe.

Hamid Abdolvand received his PhD in 2012 from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. During his PhD, he developed a series of finite element codes for modelling deformation of polycrystalline materials such as zirconium.