Biography
Hossein is currently a PhD student in professor Assellin’s lab and his work is focused on mass transport and degradation of pipeline coating materials. He completed his bachelor’s in metallurgical engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology and his master’s in corrosion and protection of materials from Sharif University of Technology, both in Iran. As a materials engineer, his major interest has been the interconnection between experimental and computational approaches to understand and predict materials behavior and properties. In keeping with that theme, his PhD is a combination of experimental measurements, to characterize the loss of properties in coating materials in aggressive environments, and computational methods, to apply the obtained knowledge for lifetime assessment predictions. He collects and analyzes data from permeation cells and environmental chambers and then tries to employ the resulting library for lifetime prediction of a priori defect-free coating systems. Hossein is passionate about creative projects and applying assessment techniques in polymer science technologies in his work has been a part of his efforts in research.