Ramona Fayazfar, PhD, PEng

Dr. Ramona (Haniyeh) Fayazfar, PhD, P.Eng., is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Ontario Tech University. Dr. Fayazfar received her Master’s and PhD degrees at Sharif University of Technology. Prior to joining Ontario Tech, she was a postdoctoral fellow in Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing research group at the University of Waterloo. She has more than 20 years of experience in developing novel multifunctional composite materials, advanced manufacturing, sustainable energy, and 3D printing. She has been actively involved in several industrially sponsored projects for aerospace and automotive applications with Burloak Technologies (Samuel, Son & Co.), Lockheed Martin, Toyota Motor Corporation, Rio Tinto Company, NRC, etc. Her current research concentrates on addressing current challenges of AM with a focus on development and optimization of novel AM-specific categories of materials for low-cost point-of-need additive manufacturing of recyclable and sustainable products. Also, her research works aim to address critical challenges facing the industrial adoption of AM for example in aerospace and tooling manufacturing and biomedical devices. To this end, new engineering advanced materials compatible with AM have been designed, developed, and characterized in her group to expand the range of possible products and enhance performance outcomes for end-use applications.