Dr Houman Alipooramirabad

Houman Alipooramirabad received his PhD in Advanced Manufacturing from the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia (2017). Following Ph.D. graduation, he has served two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia (Canada) and almost four years as a faculty member in the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering departments in Australia and Kuwait.

In terms of teaching and module/program development, Dr. Alipooramirabad has six years of experience in lecturing and more than four years in tutoring/lab demonstration. Between 2018 and 2019, he has developed curricula for two modules.

‎In a career spanning over 10 years, Dr Alipooramirabad has initiated and conducted high-quality research activities, continuously producing high-quality outputs in international journals and conferences. He is an active researcher with an international reputation in the field of advanced manufacturing (particularly welding, additive manufacturing, and casting) and conducted numerical simulations and state-of-art experiments at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization to characterize residual stresses, in conjunction with microstructural and mechanical properties studies, in engineering components. The primary goal of his research is to relate residual stresses, mechanical and metallurgical properties to manufacturing procedures and integrity requirements of engineering components. Some part of his current research outputs are reflected ‎in recently ‎published (2024) in the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (residual stress measurement in Engine Blocks) and the Journal of ‎Manufacturing Processes (in-situ neutron diffraction during Post-Weld Heat Treatment).‎ Dr Alipooramirabad has supervised 35 students at the Bachelor, Master, Master of Philosophy, and PhD levels towards completion.