Fadi Abdeljawad is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Lehigh University.
Prior to joining Lehigh, Abdeljawad served as the Bob and Kaye Stanzione Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
He received his MA and PhD with a primary focus on theoretical and computational materials science from Princeton University, where he was the recipient of the Francis Robbins Upton Fellowship; the most prestigious fellowship bestowed to an incoming graduate student. Upon completion of his PhD, he joined the Computational Materials and Data Science Department at Sandia National Laboratories first as a postdoctoral fellow, then as a senior member of the technical staff. Prior to his graduate studies, he worked in the aerospace industry, where he was a materials and stress engineer for Sikorsky Aircraft.
In broad terms, Abdeljawad’s research group employs cutting-edge computational tools to advance our understanding of how a materials internal structure (i.e., the microstructure) forms during processing treatments and how such microstructures evolve under the application of external fields, i.e., thermal, mechanical, etc. His group complements these computational efforts with machine learning techniques, which provide a low-computational-cost approach to solving microstructure-based problems. His current research is funded by several agencies including the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and Department of Defense.
Current projects include:
Microstructure physics
Interfacial dynamics
Alloy thermodynamics
Pattern formation and evolution
Mechanics
Algorithms and computational tools: Molecular simulations, Monte Carlo, phase field, and physics-informed machine learning
Education:
- Ph.D., Princeton University (2014). Primary focus: Theoretical and computational materials
- M.A., Princeton University (2010).
- B.S./M.S., North Carolina State University (2005).
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