Group Members
Group Leader
Dr. Kasra Momeni
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
The University of Alabama
Kasra Momeni completed a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from KNT University in 2006, a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in 2008, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University in 2015. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Materials Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University in 2016. Prior to joining the University of Alabama in 2020, he was an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at LA Tech.
Graduate Research Assistants
Navid Tavakoulnia (Ph.D. Candidate)
Education: MSc. in Mechanical Engineering, California State University, Riversid (2021)
BSc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Fullerton (2018)
Research Focus: Solid-Fluid Interaction
Md Rashidul Alam (Ph.D. Candidate)
Education: B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) - (2022)
Research Focus: Molecular Dynamics, 2D Materials
Refak Makeen (Ph.D. Student)
Education: MSc. in Mechanical Engineering, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) - (2023).
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) - (2018)
Research Focus: Additive Manufacturing, Phase-field modeling
Michael Anokye (Ph.D. Candidate)
Education: MSc. in Mechanical Engineering, Hanbat National University (HBNU) - (2024)
University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) - (2020)
Research Focus: Reactive Flow Modeling, 2D Materials
Brent Pruitt (Ph.D. Student)
Education: MSc. in Mechanical Engineering, Kennesaw State University - (2025).
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Indiana State University - (2017)
Research Focus: Additive Manufacturing, Phase-field modeling
Ryan Green (Ph.D. Student)
Education: MSc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama (HBNU) - (2024)
Research Focus: Fracture
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Rebecca Maddox
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Alabama (2027)
Research Focus: Additive Manufacturing, Phase-field modeling