Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Biography
Reza Montazami is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Missouri, a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and an ABET EAC Program Evaluator through the ASME professional society. His research focuses on soft functional materials, emphasizing their design, mechanics and advanced manufacturing for applications in soft bioionics and bioelectronics, and is conducted in close collaboration with the Army Research Laboratory and NASA research centers.
Prior to joining the University of Missouri, Montazami served as a tenured professor of mechanical engineering with a courtesy appointment in agricultural and biosystems engineering at Iowa State University, and as an affiliate scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory.
He has secured funding from the DoD (ARO and ONR), NSF, NASA, NIH and various industry partners, and has led several multi-institutional collaborative research initiatives. Montazami’s honors include the Big 12 Faculty Fellowship Award, the Award of Excellence for the Development and Use of Open Educational Resources, the Award for Excellence in Honors Mentoring and the Citizen Scholar Award. He has also been recognized by the National Academy of Engineering’s US-EU Frontiers of Engineering.
Montazami is an active member and contributor to the Materials Research Society (MRS) and ASME-SMASIS professional societies.
Education
PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech
MS in Materials Science and Engineering from Virginia Tech
BS in Physics and Astronomy from Virginia Tech
Technical Focus
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