Elnaz Hajizadeh is a Lecturer (Research & Teaching) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne. Elnaz was awarded a PhD in the field of Molecular Simulation of Soft Matter under the guidance of Prof. Billy Todd and Prof. Peter Daivis in 2015, followed by a two-year appointment as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Prof. Ronald Larson's Research Group at the University of Michigan.
Elnaz joined the Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG) in 2017 as a Research Scientist, where she established her own research program in the field of ICME and managed a Next Generation Technologies Fund project to develop an ICME Paradigm for Advanced Acoustic Materials.
- Research Focus:
- Materials 4.0: Data-driven Soft Matter Discovery & Design
- Statistical Physics-based Optimisation for Inverse Materials Design
- Machine Learning-accelerated Multiscale Simulation of Soft Matter
- Materials Systems:
- Complex and Biological Systems and Fluids
- (Bio)Polymer Solutions and Polymer Melts & Composites
- Colloids Assembly and Dynamics
- Mechanical Metamaterials in Soft Robotics
- Acoustic Metamaterials - airborne and waterborne applications
- Active Matter and Micro-swimmers
- Nano-engineered Structures based on self-assembling multiblock polymers
- Research Methodologies:
- Statistical Physics Models
- Equilibrium & Non-equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations
- Mesoscale Simulations: BD, SDPD, DPD & SRD
- Continuum Modelling: SPH
- Machine Learning Algorithms
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A novel hybrid population balance-Brownian dynamics method for simulating the dynamics of polymer-bridged colloidal latex particle suspensions
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Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering
Member Of Council
Australian Society of Rheology
Education
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Michigan
Doctor of Philosophy
Swinburne University of Technology