Marjan Molavi-Zarandi, PhD

Dr. Marjan Molavi-Zarandi is a Research Officer at the Automotive and Surface Transportation Centre of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in Montreal, Canada. After completing her PhD studies in Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Bombardier Aerospace in the Advanced Structure Core Engineering Department, primarily focusing on laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing design and optimization. In 2015, she joined Siemens Canada as a Postdoctoral Fellow to expand her expertise in advanced manufacturing by developing a high- fidelity finite element model to simulate the LPBF process. Since joining the Numerical Modelling and Simulation team at NRC in 2016, Marjan has been pursuing her R&D activities by engaging in several collaborative research projects in numerical modelling for fluid and structural mechanics, heat transfer, multi-physics topology optimization, composite forming, and additive manufacturing processes.