Rate My Professor Majid Beidaghi

Majid Beidaghi is an Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at The University of Arizona, a position he assumed in August 2023. He is a member of the Graduate Faculty, with his office in AME N623. Beidaghi holds a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Florida International University (2012), an M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology (2006), and a B.Sc. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (2003). His career includes a postdoctoral fellowship at Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute under Prof. Yury Gogotsi starting in 2012, followed by faculty positions at Auburn University, where he advanced from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Materials Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from 2017 to 2023. Earlier, he worked as a Materials Selection Expert at Iran’s Materials Research Center - SAPCO from 2003 to 2007.

Beidaghi specializes in advanced two-dimensional materials, particularly MXenes, for energy storage applications such as supercapacitors, batteries, and electrochemical flow capacitors. His research group develops autonomous electrochemical self-driving laboratories to accelerate the discovery of high-performance electrolytes and MXene-based materials. With over 15,000 citations, an h-index of 45, and 72 research outputs, his contributions have profoundly influenced nanomaterials for energy devices. Notable publications include “Capacitive energy storage in micro-scale devices: recent advances in design and fabrication of micro-supercapacitors” (Energy & Environmental Science, 2014), “Assembling 2D MXenes into Highly Stable Pseudocapacitive Electrodes with High Power and Energy Densities” (Advanced Materials, 2018), “3D Printing of Additive-Free 2D Ti3C2Tx (MXene) Ink for Fabrication of Micro-Supercapacitors with Ultra-High Energy Densities” (ACS Nano, 2019), “Properties and applications of two-dimensional MXenes” (Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023), and “Conductive and highly compressible MXene aerogels with ordered microstructures as high-capacity electrodes for Li-ion capacitors” (Materials Today Advances, 2021). He has earned the NSF CAREER Award ($544,586), Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2017), Auburn University LAUNCH grants, World’s Ahead Graduate Award (Florida International University, 2012), and several dissertation fellowships.