Congratulations to ME PhD student Ahmed Hussein, who has received a highly competitive Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the National Research Council Research Associateship Program (NRC RAP). The program is administered by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, which aims to provide postdoctoral awards for recent PhD graduates to be used to conduct independent research in different areas of science and engineering at one of the NRC-affiliated U.S. government laboratories.
As an NRC research associate, Hussein will conduct his postdoctoral studies at the Air Force Research Laboratory at WrightPatterson Air Force Base in Dayton, OH. His research will focus on understanding the core structure of dislocations in high temperature materials such as Nickel based superalloys. He will also work on developing novel algorithms to accelerate discrete dislocation dynamics simulations in order to predict the plastic deformation and failure for metals for aerospace applications. The results of these simulations can be used to develop physically accurate material models that can be applied in designing the next generation of jet engines and power generation gas turbines.
Hussein recently defended his PhD dissertation entitled “Dislocation Microstructure and Surface Roughness Evolution in Single and Multi-Phase Microcrystals.” Prof. Jaafar El-Awady was his advisor.
Hussein in 2014, when he won Best Poster at the 7th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling.