Mir Jalil Razavi: New mechanical engineering faculty member
Razavi hopes to eventually establish a Brain Research Center to better understand brain functionality and disorders.
The Mechanical Engineering Department recently welcomed a new assistant professor, Mir Jalil Razavi.
Razavi received his MS degree in solid mechanics from the University of Tabriz in 2009, and his PhD degree in engineering with a focus on mechanics and materials from the University of Georgia in 2018.
His research interests include solid mechanics, mechanics of soft/bio materials, fracture and fatigue mechanics. He develops analytical and computational models to study the mechanical behavior of solid structures.
“Nowadays, the mechanics of soft/bio materials is very important for the development of new engineering and biomedical technologies,” said Razavi. “Mechanical behavior of soft materials is strongly nonlinear from both physical and geometrical standpoints, which makes their study challenging.”
Most recently, Ravazi is doing research in the theoretical and computational modeling of growth, instability and folding of a growing brain.
“The brain mechanics is a fully interdisciplinary research area that integrates multiple scientific, engineering and computational disciplines,” he explained. “The goal of this research is developing innovative and cutting-edge computational and technological approaches to study the links between brain growth and post-instability morphogenesis. This effort will lead to new insights into topics such as fundamental mechanisms for development and organization of the cerebral cortex.“
Razavi’s ultimate goal at Binghamton University is the establishment of a Brain Research Center that gathers researchers from different disciplines to open new windows toward a better understanding of brain function and its disorders.
Razavi also enjoys playing soccer, watching movies and reading non-text books.