Mitra Taheri
Director of the Materials Characterization and Processing Facility
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Member of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Physical Sciences Division Joint Appointment
Research Fellow at Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute
Leadership Council Member of the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute
Background & Education
BS, MS, PhD from Carnegie Mellon University
NRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Naval Research Laboratory (DC)
Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
ONR Faculty Fellowship at Naval Surface Warfare Center
Visiting Faculty at Politecnico di Milano and CNRS (Paris-Est)
Hoeganaes Endowed Chair Professor at Drexel 2008-2019
Professor at JHU from 2020-present
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
