Biographical Note

Dr. Allameh received his PhD in 1993 from The Ohio State University in the field of Materials Science and Engineering working with Profs. P. G. Shewmon and S. A. Dregia. For his PhD, he worked on the energy and structure of interphase interfaces. He then joined Prof. Ken Sandhage of The Ohio State University, as a postdoctoral researcher and then in 1995 as research associate to work on the synthesis and characterization of electronic ceramics. In 1999 he joined Professors A. G. Evans and W. O. Soboyejo of Princeton University as research staff scientist. Since then he has worked on the fabrication and characterization of nano-crystalline materials, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), thin film bimorphs, biomaterials, and nanostructures with applications in nanotechnology. Dr. Allameh has a special interest in surfaces and interfaces, electron microscopy, nano-crystalline materials, nano-scale and microscale devices, and microtesting systems for mechanical behavior of MEMS and NEMS. He developed state of the art microtesting systems for evaluation of mechanical behavior of MEMS components. These include tensile, compression, bending, buckling, fatigue, creep tests using laser interferometry and image correlation techniques. Dr. Allameh has recently developed a simple method for growing nano-scale structures including nanofins, nanorods, and thin-walled lightweight nanostructures. He has authored or co-authored over 30 journal publications, 30 conference proceeding articles and 30 conference presentations. He currently serves in the multifunctional materials committee of ASME. Dr. Allameh was the co-organizer of ASME symposia on MEMS and multifunctional materials for the past 3 years. He was the guest editor of a special issue of Journal of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Allameh is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Technology of Northern Kentucky University.