2023 to present
Before joining the Materials for Extremes group in 2023, Naeem worked as a Postdoc Fellow at the City University of Hong Kong (2020–2023). He spearheaded in-situ deformation studies of high-entropy alloys by neutron diffraction at low temperatures (down to 15 K). In 2022, Naeem was the AONSA (Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association) Young Research Fellow at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. Before pursuing his PhD, he held a teaching faculty position in Metallurgy & Materials Engineering at the Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Naeem’s research focuses on the mechanical behavior of multicomponent alloys under extreme environments. He employs neutron and synchrotron diffraction for the in-situ investigations. Naeem has extensive experience with neutron beamtime proposal writing, experiment design, diffraction data analysis and interpretation. He will be supporting the group with diffraction experiments and analysis as well as his own research will move towards bcc superalloys – as opposed to his previous experience with fcc systems.
Naeem is currently the guest editor of the special issue “Processing-Microstructure-Properties Relationship of Advanced Alloys” of Crystals journal. He will be chair of the Structural Nanomaterials Gordon Research Seminar titled “Decoding the Processing–Microstructure–Properties Relationship in Advanced Alloys” to be held in Switzerland in May 2024.