Payam Poorsolhjouy

Payam Poorsolhjouy is an Assistant Professor in the Applied Mechanics group of the Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His main research interest and expertise lies in the broad areas of material modeling and design by studying the formation, evolution, and consolidation of microstructure, with specific interest in granular and particulate materials. Particular areas of application include powder compaction in tablet manufacturing followed by performance prediction of tablets and 3D conrete printing with the aim of designing new materials and structures.

Poorsolhjouy is an experienced researcher with applications in broad areas such as built environment and the pharmaceutical industry. He is mostly interested in granular materials (cohesive materials like concrete, rocks or pharmaceutical tablets and cohesionless materials like soils) as well as complex materials such as fiber-reinforced composites.

His research goals include: modeling the mechanical and multiphysics behavior of complex engineering material and structural systems; improving the design of new multifunctional materials with tailored properties by designing their microstructure; and enhancing the design and topology of structural systems by using these new materials within novel manufacturing frameworks. To reach these objectives, Poorsolhjouy investigates the micro-scale phenomena governing the interactions of materials’ constituents and implements them into multiscale models of material behavior in a computationally efficient manner. The insight derived from this analysis will be used to design and optimize new multifunctional materials and structures.