Mohsen Asle Zaeem

Mohsen Asle Zaeem is a materials scientist and engineer who is currently serving as Department Head and Cook Eversole Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research is in the area of computational materials science, multiscale modeling, phase-field modeling, and the design of shape-memory ceramics, metallic alloys, and two-dimensional materials.

Education Asle Zaeem received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Shiraz University in 2003 and 2006, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University in 2010. in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science.

From 2022 to 2024, Asle Zaeem served as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Division of Materials Research, overseeing the Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program. In 2025 he became Department Head and Cook Eversole Endowed Chair Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. According to Google Scholar (October 2025), his work has received over 6,500 citations with an h-index of 45.

Selected honors and awards Brimacombe Medal (2024), The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS). Faculty Research Excellence Award, Colorado School of Mines (2021). ASME Materials Processing Technical Committee Chair (2020). Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2018). TMS–FEMS Young Leader International Scholar Award (2017). Faculty Research Excellence Award, Missouri University of Science and Technology (2016).

Selected publications Kavousi S., and Prof. Asle Zaeem M. “Integration of multiscale simulations and machine learning for predicting dendritic microstructures in solidification of alloys.” Acta Materialia 289 (2025): 120860. Bhattacharya A., and Prof. Asle Zaeem M. “Kinetics of ferroelastic domain switching with and without back-switching events: A phase-field study.” Acta Materialia 286 (2025): 120702. Asle Zaeem M., Thomas S., Kavousi S., Zhang N., Mukhopadhyay T., and Mahata A. “Multiscale computational modeling techniques in study and design of 2D materials: recent advances, challenges, and opportunities.” 2D Materials 11 (2024): 042004. Kavousi S., Ankudinov V., Galenko P. K., and Prof. Asle Zaeem M. “Atomistic-informed kinetic phase-field modeling of non-equilibrium crystal growth during rapid solidification.” Acta Materialia 253 (2023): 118960. Kavousi S., Novak B., Moldovan D., and Prof. Asle Zaeem M. “Quantitative prediction of rapid solidification by integrated atomistic and phase-field modeling.” Acta Materialia 211 (2021): 116885. Mahata A., Mukhopadhyay T., Chakraborty S., and Prof. Asle Zaeem M. “Atomistic simulation-assisted error-inclusive Bayesian machine learning for probabilistically unraveling mechanical properties of solidified metals.” npj Computational Materials 10 (2024): 22.