Mitra Taheri has a Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses mainly on electron microscopy and specifically in-situ microscopy. Mitra’s research team, Dynamic Characterization Group, designs and builds platforms to study materials in different, often extreme, environments including high temperatures, stress, radiation, oxidation and more. Her team also develops new ways of detecting what is being seen through the microscope faster and in more efficient ways through integrating artificial intelligence. Mitra hopes this integration will improve not only researchers’ understanding of materials processes, but how new materials can be built for the next generation of applications.

Education

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, 2005, Carnegie Mellon University
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, 2002, Carnegie Mellon University
B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, 2001, Carnegie Mellon University

Experience

2020 – Present: Professor of Materials Science & Engineering and Director of the Materials Characterization and Processing Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

2020 – Present: Joint Appointment, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

2018 – 2019: Hoeganaes Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2016-2017: Provost’s Fellow, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2015: Visiting Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

2014 – 2018: Hoeganaes Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2012 – 2013: Assistant Dean for Research, College of Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia PA

2011: ONR Summer Faculty Fellow, Naval Surface Warfare Center, West Bethesda, MD

2008 – 2014: Hoeganaes Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

2006 – 2008: Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA

2005 – 2006: NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

2004 – 2008: Visiting Scientist, National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM), Lawrence Berkeley, National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

2004 – 2005: VIsiting Scientist, Northwestern Center for Atom Probe Tomography, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2002: Visiting Scientist, Institut Für Metallkunde und Metallphysik, RWTH-Aachen, Germany

2001 – 2005: Graduate Assistant and US Steel Fellow, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2000: Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program, US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC