Asghar Aryanfar - Lab of Energy Materials and Sustainability (LEMS)

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Asghar Aryanfar

Assistant Professor [Profile]
Mechanical Engineering M3280
Perkins Hall (x7195)
Bogazici University
Istanbul, Turkey 34342 [Map]

Visiting Researcher
Engineering and Applied Science
California Institute of Technology
E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125

Email: aryanfar at caltech dot edu

Brief Bio:

I am Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bogazici University as well as Visiting Researcher at Caltech. I received the BSc in Civil and Mechanical Engineering (double major, top 2%) from Sharif University of Technology in 2009 and the MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from California Institute of Technology , in 2010 and 2015, respectively. Previously I was Assistant Professor at American University of Beirut (’19-’22) and Lecturer at Bahçeşehir University (’16-’19) and prior to that I was Postdoctoral Associate at UCLA Materials Science department (’15-’16). My research has been in developing multi-physics/chemistry methods and materials for energy storage, conversion, transport and sustainability. Current projects include analysis and design of state-of-the-art sustainable rechargeable batteries and prediction of heterogeneous cracking behavior for membranes/clads exposed to extreme states. Here is my Google Scholar page.

Team:

collaborators: William Goddard III (Caltech) , Michael Hoffmann (Caltech), Jaime Marian (UCLA) , Tao Cheng (Soochow) , Irem Şanal (BAU) , S. Reza Damadi (U Tabriz) , Sunando Dasgupta (IIT) , Partha Mukherjee (Purdue) , Rachid Yazami (NTU).

students: Trina Dhara (ChE) , Mahmoud Yamani (CS) , Mounir El Skafi (ME) , Seif Qiblawi (ME) , Maria Khoury (ME) , Fadi Elias (ME) , Abdelrahman El Tallis (CE) , Ali Tayyar (ME) , Leatithia Zeitouny (ME).

past: Julia Greer (Caltech) , Bilge Yildiz (MIT) , Anton Van der Ven (UCSB) , Donghua Xu (OSU) , Mostafa Youssef (AUC) , Jing Yang (EPFL) , Agustin J. Colussi (Caltech) , Venkat Viswanathan (CMU) , Dimitri Saad (Stanford) , Sajed Medlej , Yara Ghamlouche , Jihad Jundi.

News:

  • July’23: I have been rated as the best instructor in the department. Full report is here! and the summary screenshot is below:


Highlights:

  • Caltech News coverage: Building Better Batteries (Jan’17). [Link]


  • Cover image/Interview, Journal of Chemical Physics (Oct’15). [Link1] [Link2]


  • CNN Interview/featured design, SolidWorks: novel closed-loop sanitation system (May’13). [Link1] [Link2]