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Davoud Jafari has been appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Design Production and Management (DPM) at the University of Twente (UT). Davoud obtained his Ph.D. in Thermal Engineering at the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2016. Later, Davoud joined DPM at UT in early 2017. His research's ultimate goal is to develop and engineer new materials, enabling energy solutions in the real world. To do this, he applies the physics of fabrication and thermal engineering to synthesize, characterize, and incorporate innovative materials into next-generation energy conversion and storage systems. Davoud currently works on advancing additive manufacturing techniques to fabricate metal matrix composites, and multiscale porous materials for heat transfer, and thermochemical and electrochemical technologies for terrestrial and space applications.
Expertise Material Science Three Dimensional Printing Thermal Conductivity Laser Powder Bed Fusion Graphene Engineering Heat Pipe Additive Manufacturing Porosity Porous Structure Organisations Publications Additive manufacturing of graphene-reinforced copper matrix composites produced via cold spray (2026) Materials & Design, 270 . Article 116929. Zarei, F., Ardeshiri Lordejani, A., Lee, H., Ruan, S., Koutsioukis, A., Guo, X., Jafari, D. , Yin, S., Nicolosi, V., Dosta, S., Wits, W. W., Lupoi, R., Guagliano, M. & Bagherifard, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2026.116929 Cold spray additive manufacturing of Inconel 718/Cu and Inconel 718/GRCop-42 multi-materials: effects of deposition sequence on interface and thermal conductivity (2026) Materials & Design, 269 . Article 116653. Dehgahi, S., Lee, H., Shirkharkolaei, E. M., Kumaravel, M., Singh, A. K., Bagherifard, S. & Jafari, D. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2026.116653 Additive manufacturing of Al-4043 by molten metal deposition: Coupled thermal modeling and microstructural characterization (2026) Progress in Additive Manufacturing, 11 (8), 7211-7231. Hoekstra, E., Elangeswaran, C., Hodaei, A., Dehgahi, S., Galle, J., Gibson, I. & Jafari, D. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40964-026-01727-3 Data supporting the publication: “Lattice initialisation and finite-size effects of non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations for heat transfer across graphene-copper interfaces” (2026) [Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. van Goor, L., Edeling, W., Jafari, D. , Lee, H., Luesink, E., Wits, W. W., Lyulin, A. & Geurts, B. J. https://doi.org/10.4121/a1aec49e-028a-4341-a46b-46ec584dcea5 Modeling of heat transfer across graphene-copper interfaces (2026) [Contribution to conference › Abstract] 17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) and 10th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS), WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026 . van Goor, L., Edeling, W., Jafari, D. , Lee, H., Lyulin, A., Wits, W. W. & Geurts, B. J. Lattice initialisation and finite-size effects of non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations for heat transfer across graphene-copper interfaces (2026) [Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. van Goor, L. A., Edeling, W. N., Jafari, D. , Lee, H., Luesink, E., Wits, W. W., Lyulin, A. V. & Geurts, B. J. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.16783 Uncertainty quantification of upscaling thermal transport (2026) [Contribution to conference › Abstract] International Conference on Scientific Computing and Differential Equations, SciCADE 2026 . van Goor, L., Edeling, W., Jafari, D. , Lee, H., Luesink, E., Lyulin, A., Wits, W. W. & Geurts, B. J. Laser powder bed fusion of graphene-enhanced copper composites (2026) [Contribution to conference › Abstract] 12 RIPT 2026 . Lee, H., Jafari, D. , van Goor, L., Lyulin, A., Geurts, B. J. & Wits, W. W. Molecular dynamics analysis of heat transfer across graphene-copper interfaces in additively manufactured composites (2026) [Contribution to conference › Abstract] 12 RIPT 2026 . van Goor, L., Edeling, W., Geurts, B. J., Wits, W. W., Jafari, D. , Lee, H. & Lyulin, A. From wet-milled Cu-graphene powder to 2DMMCs via cold spray additive manufacturing (2026) [Contribution to conference › Poster] 12 RIPT 2026 . Zarei, F., Ardeshiri Lordejani, A., Lee, H., Ruan, S., Jafari, D. , Wits, W. W., Yin, S., Lupoi, R., Guagliano, M. & Bagherifard, S. Research profiles Affiliated study programs Courses academic year 2026/2027 Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses academic year 2025/2026 
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