Marjan Molavi-ZarandiPh.D. | Assoc. Professor
Marjan Molavi-Zarandi Ph.D.
- Metal AM process simulation.
- Design for AM.
- Multiphysics topology optimization.
Dr. Marjan Molavi-Zarandi is a Research Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Prior to joining UNCC at 2023 she has worked as Research Scientist at the Automotive and Surface Transportation Centre of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in Montreal, Canada since 2016. Upon completion of her doctoral studies in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University in 2013, she began a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Bombardier Aerospace in the Advanced Structure Core Engineering Department to work on topology optimization for laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing process. She joined Siemens Canada in 2015 as a Postdoctoral Fellow to further her expertise in advanced manufacturing and developed a high-fidelity finite element model for simulation of the LPBF process. Since joining the Numerical Modelling and Simulation team at NRC in 2016, Marjan has pursued her R&D activities by participating in several collaborative research projects involving numerical modeling for fluid and structural mechanics, heat transfer, multi-physics topology optimization, composite forming, and additive manufacturing.