Rate My Professor Zia Javanbakht

Zia Javanbakht is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia, within the Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design discipline. He earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Griffith University and is a chartered engineer in civil, structural, and mechanical engineering. Javanbakht holds Fellow status with the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Prior to his academic career, he accumulated more than a decade of industry experience in structural modelling, design, and project management, and he continues to offer consultancy services to national and international companies in solid mechanics and simulation.

Javanbakht's research specializes in computational mechanics and material modelling. His expertise encompasses finite element analysis using software such as ABAQUS and MSC MARC, programming in FORTRAN, Python, and MATLAB, and the modelling of composites and auxetic materials. He leads the Auxetics Lab, part of the Advanced Design Prototyping Technologies Institute (ADaPT), where the team develops novel high-performance composite and auxetic materials, energy-dissipating devices, and integrates Industry 4.0 technologies like additive manufacturing and artificial intelligence to enhance multi-layer structure performance. He has secured over $3 million in funding through external and university grants. On Google Scholar, his work has garnered 584 citations, with an h-index of 14 and i10-index of 19. Key publications include the book 'Advanced Finite Element Simulation with MSC Marc' (2017), 'Automatized estimation of the effective thermal conductivity of stochastic fibre-reinforced composites' (2017, cited 16 times), 'Finite Element Evaluation of Effective Thermal Conductivity of Stochastic Fibre-Reinforced Composites' (2017, cited 7 times), 'The Effect of Partitioning on the Clustering Index of Randomly-Oriented Fiber Composites' (2017, cited 7 times), and contributions to recent works on fused filament fabrication and SLM AlSi10Mg behavior. Javanbakht teaches courses including Constitutive Material Modelling (7015ENG) and Computational Statics and Dynamics (7252ENG), and serves as HDR Convenor in his school.