Mehdi Tajvidi

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ABOUT MEHDI TAJVIDI

I started my scientific career at the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI in 2001 where I worked as a visiting scientist studying viscoelastic properties of natural fiber thermoplastic composites. After completing my PhD program in Natural Resources Engineering at the University of Tehran in 2003, I worked as an Assistant and later an Associate Professor at the Department of Wood and Paper Science and Technology, the University of Tehran for 8 years. In 2007 I received the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) award to do research at the Department of Biomaterials Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Japan where I worked as a Visiting Professor for two years. Upon moving to Canada in 2011, I worked as a Visiting Professor and a Research Associate at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, ON, Canada before Joining the School of Forest Resources of the University of Maine in September 2013 as the Assistant Professor of Renewable Nanomaterials. My areas of research interest are production, characterization and performance evaluation of renewable nanomaterials and their composites. I am particularly interested in mechanical properties of nano-materials and nanocomposites, structure-processing-property relationships, viscoelastic behavior, dynamic mechanical analysis, coatings, nonwovens, and hybrid composites where renewable nanomaterials are used. For latest information on research opportunities please visit: http://forest.umaine.edu/faculty-staff/directory/mehdi-tajvidi/news/