Group Leader
Dr Masoud Jabbari
Assistant Professor, Principal Investigator
Deputy Director of PGR, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds
Research focus: Advanced Materials Processing & Simulations
Postgraduate Students
Sung Lam (Adrian)
Numerical modelling of flow during extrusion-based manufacturing of batteries
Sultan Alanazi
Multiphysics modelling of battery electrode drying
Jiashen Chen
Microstructure study and performance optimisation of lithium-ion battery cathode materials
Supervised by Dr Meisam Babaie
Christopher Jackson
3D printing of rheologically complex materials through extrusion processes
Supervised by Dr Oliver Harlen
Mahmoud Alrashidi
Numerical modelling of metal additive manufacturing
MSc/MEng Students
2024/25
Andrew Ellis (CFD modelling of ink coating; Industrial supervisor: bsi)
Dougal Swales (porous media characterisation using image-based techniques; Industrial supervisor: bsi)
Gaurav Sohal (generating 3D random particle packing; Industrial supervisor: bsi)
Hamzah Shah (porous media characterisation using CFD; Industrial supervisor: bsi)
Kristine Lind (experimental characterisation of porous media; Industrial supervisor: bsi)
Tudor Guresu (optimum lattice design and manufacturing for metal AM; Industrial supervisor: JLR)
Thomas Holmes (FEA analysis of lattice designs for metal AM; Industrial supervisor: JLR)
Lucas Nicolaos (Flowability analysis of metal AM lattice designs using CFD; Industrial supervisor: JLR)
Igor Niedzielski (experimental testing of lattice metal AM designs ; Industrial supervisor: JLR)
2023/24
Chirag Parmar (CFD modelling of viscoplastic ceramic coating during tape casting)
Adam Rusin (CFD modelling of FDM 3D printing)
Feras Abulula (Numerical modelling of solvent evaporation during battery electrodes drying)
Mohammed Buzaid (CFD modelling of slot-die coating for battery manufacturing)
Alisha Sharma (PEM fuel cell CFD performance modelling; Industrial supervisor: Rolls-Royce)
Bogdan Kotlyarenko (Digital characterisation of GDL in PEM fuel cells; Industrial supervisor: Rolls-Royce)
Arturas Pilybas (CFD modelling of GDL coating for PEM fuel cells; Industrial supervisor: Rolls-Royce)
Dhanush Kumar (Hybrid thermal management of batteries using liquid cooling and bio-based CPCMs)
Haocheng Hong (Modelling PCMs for battery thermal management)
Kaustubh Shinde (Modelling of hybrid BTMS)
Abhishek Balaji (Numerical modelling of thermal runaway in LIBs)
Undergraduate/Internship Students
2024/25
Eve Chamberlain (Modelling of dynamic contact lines during wetting; Fluid CDT Internship; Co-supervisor: Dr Mark Wilson)
2023/24
Tudor Guresu (Using additive manufacturing for weight reduction in automotives; Industrial supervisor: JLR)
Felix Watson (Modelling battery coating with PyBaMM; Faraday FUSE internship 2024 (Imperial College London); Supervisor: Dr Ferran Borsa, Warwick)
Former Members
Dr Yasemin Akar (Research Fellow), Digital twinning of the ceramic tape casting process
Mr Kaize Shi (MRes), Modelling of dry electrode manufacturing