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Asghar Aryanfar
Assistant Professor [Profile]
Mechanical Engineering
Perkins Hall M3280 (x7195)
Boğaziçi University
Bebek, 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
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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.

Team:

current: Semih Can (Texas A&M), Umut Ureyen (PT Milan), Selin Bardak, Bugracan Bozkurt, M Kulak (TU Munich), Ayse Cetinler (PT Milan), Eren Ozcan (ENSTA Paris - U Shanghai), Trina Dhara (Cornell) , Beste Kara, Mounir El Skafi (Oxford).

past: J Paczesny (ICHF Warsaw), B Celik (U Wisconsin), M Yamani (AUB) , J Marian (UCLA), P Mukherjee (Purdue), T Cheng (Soochow) , I Şanal (BAU) , SR Damadi (U Tabriz) , MG Kakroudi (U Tabriz), J Greer (Caltech) , B Yildiz (MIT) , A Van der Ven (UCSB) , D Xu (OSU) , M Youssef (AUC) , J Yang (EPFL) , AJ Colussi (Caltech) , V Viswanathan (CMU) , D Saad (Stanford) , S Medlej (AUB) , Y Ghamlouche (AUB) , J Jundi (TUM), AR El Tallis (Columbia) , M Khoury (AUB).

Travels:

  • Jul’25: Talk at Nucleus conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia .

  • May’25: Talk at EMRS conference at Strasbourg, France .

  • Sep’24: Talk at the EMRS conference at Warsaw, Poland .

  • Sep’24: Visiting Oleg Levin's Lab, Saint Petersburg, Russia .

  • Sep’22: Talk in the EMRS conference at Warsaw, Poland .

  • Sep’22: Talk in the QUENCH workshop (travel grant awarded) at KIT , Karlsruhe, Germany .

  • May’22: Talk in the Electrochemical Society Conference, Vancouver, CA .

  • Oct’21: Session Chair and Talk, MRS Conference, Boston, MA .

  • Jun’21: Talk at ECS Confernce, San Francisco, CA .

  • Apr’21: Talk on MRS Conference (Online).

  • Jan’21: Talk in the Intelligent Decision Science conference, Istanbul, Turkey .

  • May’19: Talk (sponsored) at American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon .

  • Aug’17: Talk (sponsored) at QUENCH workshop (IAEA), KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany .

  • Aug’16: Talk at Sadoway group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA .

  • Jun’16: Talk at EMN Conference, Prague, Czech Republic .

  • May’16: Talk (sponsored) at EPFL Mechanical Engineering department, Laussane, Switzerland: Engineering Electrochemical Materials for Energy Storage and Sustainability: From Rechargeable Batteries to Power Plants

  • Apr’16: Talk on International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plants ICAPP 2016, San Francisco, CA .

  • Mar’16: Talk (sponsored) at Tesla , Palo Alto, CA .

  • Nov’15: Two Talks (sponsored) at Apple , Cupertino, CA CA .

  • Sep’15: Talk (sponsored) at Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering department, Ankara, Turkey .

  • May’15: Talk at Electrochemical Society Conference (ECS), Chicago, IL : Three Dimensional Modeling of Dendrite Growth in Rechargeable Lithium Metal Batteries

  • Dec’14: Talk at Bazant group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Cambridge, MA .

  • Jun’14: Talk (sponsored) at Corporation , Hillsboro, OR .

  • May’14: Talk at Electrochemical Society Conference (ECS), Orlando, FL .

  • Apr’14: Talk at Materials Research Society Conference (MRS), San Francisco, CA .

  • Dec’13: Talk at Materials Research Society Conference (MRS), Boston, MA .

  • Oct’12: Talk at Electrochemical Society Conference (ECS), Honolulu, Hawaii .

  • Aug’12: First prize recipient, Novel self-sustaining sanitation system, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA : [FastCompany] [Reuters] [Time] [Economist]

Highlights:

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


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


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


  • May’13: CNN Interview , featured design in SolidWorks: novel closed-loop sanitation system. [Link]


  • 2009: Rank 5/120: Mechanical Engineering Class, Sharif University of Technology .

  • 2008: Rank 2/110: Civil Engineering Class, Sharif University of Technology .

  • 2004: Rank 78/500,000+: National University entrance exam, Iran .