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Doctor of Philosophy (McGill University)
Mohammad Mirkhalaf is a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). He leads a QUT research team on mechanical meta-materials, -devices, and -surfaces (MMDS). He has obtained his PhD from McGill University, Master's from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and Bachelor's from Isfahan University of Technology (IUT). After finishing PhD in 2015, he joined the National Research Council of Canada as a postdoctoral fellow, working closely with his previous lab at McGill till August 2018, when he joined the University of Sydney. He joined QUT in March 2022.
As of Jan. 2025, his h-index is 21 with > 2100 citations (Google Scholar). He has published 36 original research and 5 review/perspective articles in high-profile journals, two book chapters, a full US patent, and two patents at the corporation treaty stage. Of the journal articles, he is the first or last author on 22; these include publications in leading multidisciplinary journals such as Nature Communications, PNAS, Matter (2x), Materials Horizons (2x), Acta Biomaterialia (2x), and Appl Mater Today (2x) and in leading journals of mechanics such as Extreme Mechanics Letters (2x) & Int J Solids Struct. He has been the first-named investigator on four successful external grant applications (worth > A$1M) and attracted several prestigious postdoctoral/graduate awards (total > A$500K). His experience working at universities, government labs, and industries in Australia, Canada, Singapore, and Iran has enabled him to build solid research partnerships. He has developed and taught two new units at the University of Sydney, and taught graduate and undergraduate units at QUT, McGill University, and Nanyang Technological University.
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- Mirkhalaf, M. & Rafsanjani, A. (2023). Harnessing machine mechanisms to continuously reprogram metamaterials. Matter, 6(11), 3719–3731. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/244328
- Ding, Z., Klein, T., Barner-Kowollik, C. & Mirkhalaf, M. (2023). Multifunctional nacre-like materials. Materials Horizons, 10(12), 5371–5390. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/244602
- Mirkhalaf, M., (2024). Live materials combined with artificial intelligence toward 'living' beings. Matter, 7(3), 728–730. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/247716
- Ding, Z., Zreiqat, H. & Mirkhalaf, M. (2022). Rationally-designed self-shaped ceramics through heterogeneous green body compositions. Materials Horizons, 9, 2762–2772. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/235427
- Mirkhalaf, M., Dao, A., Schindeler, A., Little, D., Dunstan, C. & Zreiqat, H. (2021). Personalized Baghdadite scaffolds: stereolithography, mechanics and in vivo testing. Acta Biomaterialia, 132, 217–226. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234005
- Mirkhalaf, M., Wang, X., Entezari, A., Dunstan, C., Jiang, X. & Zreiqat, H. (2021). Redefining architectural effects in 3D printed scaffolds through rational design for optimal bone tissue regeneration. Applied Materials Today, 25. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234064
- Hannard, F., Mirkhalaf, M., Ameri, A. & Barthelat, F. (2021). Segmentations in fins enable large morphing amplitudes combined with high flexural stiffness for fish-inspired robotic materials. Science Robotics, 6(57). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234065
- Mirkhalaf, M., Sunesara, A., Ashrafi, B. & Barthelat, F. (2019). Toughness by segmentation: Fabrication, testing and micromechanics of architectured ceramic panels for impact applications. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 158, 52–65. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234006
- Mirkhalaf, M., Zhou, T. & Barthelat, F. (2018). Simultaneous improvements of strength and toughness in topologically interlocked ceramics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(37), 9128–9133. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234010
- Mirkhalaf, M., Dastjerdi, A. & Barthelat, F. (2014). Overcoming the brittleness of glass through bio-inspiration and micro-architecture. Nature Communications, 5. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/234017