Professor Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh is a Canada Research Chair (CRC Tier 2) in Multifunctional Metamaterials, an Associate Professor in Bio-inspired advanced materials and structures in the Bioresource Engineering Department, an Associate Member in Solid mechanics in the Mechanical Engineering Department, and the Director of Advanced Multifunctional and Multiphysics Metamaterials Lab (AM3L) at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He joined McGill University as a Faculty member in 2015 after two and half years of working on advanced architected cellular solids as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Mechanical Engineering Departments of McGill University and the University of New Brunswick. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in January 2013 from the University of New Brunswick. He graduated with distinctions from Mechanical Engineering Department (MSc in Solid Mechanics) of Amirkabir University of Technology in 2009 and Mechanical Engineering Department (BSc in Solid Mechanics) of Isfahan University of Technology in 2007.\r\nProfessor Akbarzadeh exploits Fundamentals of Solid mechanics, Computational multiscale and multiphysics simulation, and Advanced manufacturing (3D printing and laser engraving) to develop next generation of architected multifunctional metamaterials and metastructures with unrivalled multi-physical properties. His research and training program at AM3L are aligned with multiscale multiphysical modelling and 3D printing of programmable and sustainable multifunctional metamaterials and meta-structures. To date (February 2022), his contributions have led to 1 Book on Advanced Thermal Stress Analysis of Smart Materials and Structures, 96 published articles in well-respected journals like Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Engineering Materials, Acta Materialia, Carbon, Additive Manufacturing, Composites Part B: Engineering, and Composite Structures, and more than 70 presentations and invited talks at international/national conferences.\r\n
