Staff profile

Email: mehdi.keshavarz-hedayati(at)durham.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44300

Member of Advanced Materials, Electronics & Communications Research Challenge

Biography

Dr Hedayati has been serving as an Associate Professor in the department of Engineering since 2023, focusing on the application of Artificial Intelligence for materials discovery. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). Subsequently, he pursued advanced studies at Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany, completing both his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Materials Science. Prior to assuming the role of Assistant Professor at Durham University, he served as a Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

Vacancy

If you are interested in joining my team, please write an email (mehdi.keshavarz-hedayati(at)durham.ac.uk) with details outlined below and use either "PhD applicant" or "Postdoc applicant" as the title of your email. The deadline for PhD applications is November-December each year. 

Current Research Topics

• Inverse Design of Metamaterials
• Biomedical Application of AI
• Machine Learning for Materials/Metamaterials Design
• Pattern Transfer/ Nano-printing
• Flexible Optical Sensor
• Wearable Electronics
• Metasurface Structural Colour
• Nanoimprint Lithography
• Plasmonic Materials

Please note that if you are applying for PhD studentship, you have to consult first the following link. Please make sure to include the following materials in your email:

• The GPA of your BSc, and MSc (and PhD grade for postdoc applicants)
• A CV including a list of publications, and awards
• Your source of funding (if any)
• Your 1-page research proposal

Research Grant

2019- The Royal Society: Research Grants - Project Title: Smart materials: Development of nanostructures with real-time structural tunability (RGS\R1\191345)

Awards and Prizes

2016 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, European Commission

2016- Reach. Out! 2016, European Materials Research Society (E-MRS), Spring meeting 2016, Lille, France

2015- Researcher Grant, The 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics – Metamaterials 2015, Oxford, UK

2015- KiNSIS prize for nano-engineering (Best PhD dissertation), Kiel Nano, Surface and Interface Science, Kiel, Germany

2014- German Materials Society Youth Award (DGM-Nachwuchspreis), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Materialkunde e.V., Frankfurt, Germany

2013- Khwarizmi Youth Award, The 15th Khwarizmi Youth Festival, The Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

2013- Best Student Poster Award, The 7th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics, Bordeaux, France

2011- SPP5 Student Travel Grant, The 5th International Conference on Surface Plasmon Photonics, BEXCO, Busan, South Korea

2009- Excellent Master Thesis Award, Institute for materials science, Faculty of engineering, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

2008- Excellent Bachelor Thesis Award, The 8th student conference of Materials science and Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Courses Taught

Lecturer: Photonics 4, Durham University, UK

Lecturer: Materials 3, Durham University, UK

Lecturer: Nanolithography (Graduate Course), Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Tutor: Fabrication of Micro- and Nano Structures (Undergraduate), Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Lecturer: Polymer Chemistry (Undergraduate), University of Kiel, Germany

Lecturer: Polymer-based smart and multi-functional devices, University of Kiel

Lecturer: Nanochemistry for Nanoengineering (Graduate Course), University of Kiel, Germany

Lecturer: (Advanced) Metals ((Graduate course), University of Kiel, Germany

Patents

1. A. Kristensen, C. Zhou, M.K. Hedayati, U. Levy, Whole blood hemolysis optical sensors (pending)
2. M. Elbahri, M. K. Hedayati, V. Zaporojtchenko, T. Strunskus, F. Faupel, Absorberschicht für den VIS- und/oder NIR-Spektralbereich, German Patent DE102011113571.
3. M. Elbahri, M. K. Hedayati, V. Zaporojtchenko, T. Strunskus, F. Faupel, Metall-Komposit-Beschichtung mit hoher optischer Transmissivität im visuellen Spektrum, German Patent DE102010050110.

Conference Paper

• Elbahri, M., Hedayati, M., & Abdelaziz, M. (2016, December). Active organic dipolar antenna. Presented at 2016 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ADVANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC MATERIALS IN MICROWAVES AND OPTICS (METAMATERIALS)
• Abdelaziz, M., Hedayati, M., & Elbahri, M. (2016, December). Active plasmonic coupling of metallic nanoparticles with dye. Presented at 2016 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ADVANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC MATERIALS IN MICROWAVES AND OPTICS (METAMATERIALS)
• Hedayati, M., & Elbahri, M. (2015, December). Active Metamaterial Absorber by Photoswitchable Molecules. Presented at 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ADVANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC MATERIALS IN MICROWAVES AND OPTICS (METAMATERIALS 2015)
• Hedayati, M., Abdelaziz, M., Jamali, A., & Elbahri, M. (2015, December). Tailored metamaterial perfect absorber. Presented at 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON ADVANCED ELECTROMAGNETIC MATERIALS IN MICROWAVES AND OPTICS (METAMATERIALS 2015)

Journal Article

• Fang, R., Ghasemi, A., Zeze, D., & Keshavarz Hedayati, M. (2024). Inverse design of lateral hybrid metasurfaces structural colour: an AI approach. RSC Advances, 14(35), 25678-25684. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ra04981k
• Ghasemi, A., Fang, R., Zeze, D. A., & Hedayati, M. K. (2023). Ultra-stretchable active metasurfaces for high-performance structural color. AIP Advances, 13(8), Article 085004. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0156782
• Fang, R., Ghasemi, A., Zeze, D. A., & Keshavarz Hedayati, M. (2022). Mechanically tunable metasurface with large gamut of color: Lateral hybrid system. Journal of Applied Physics, 132(13), Article 133102. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0115964
• Head, S., & Keshavarz Hedayati, M. (2022). Inverse Design of Distributed Bragg Reflectors Using Deep Learning. Applied Sciences, 12(10), Article 4877. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12104877
• Roberts, N. B., & Keshavarz Hedayati, M. (2021). A deep learning approach to the forward prediction and inverse design of plasmonic metasurface structural color. Applied Physics Letters, 119(6), Article 061101. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0055733
• Caligiuri, V., Tedeschi, G., Palei, M., Miscuglio, M., Martin-Garcia, B., Guzman-Puyol, S., Hedayati, M. K., Kristensen, A., Athanassiou, A., Cingolani, R., Sorger, V. J., Salerno, M., Bonaccorso, F., Krahne, R., & Heredia-Guerrero, J. A. (2020). Biodegradable and Insoluble Cellulose Photonic Crystals and Metasurfaces. ACS Nano, 14(8), 9502-9511. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c03224
• Abdelaziz, M., Homaeigohar, S., Hedayati, M. K., Assad, M. A., & Elbahri, M. (2019). Solar Aluminum Kitchen Foils with Omnidirectional Vivid Polarizonic Colors. Advanced Optical Materials, 7(15), Article 1900737. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201900737
• Zhou, C., Hedayati, M. K., & Kristensen, A. (2018). Multifunctional waveguide interferometer sensor: simultaneous detection of refraction and absorption with size-exclusion function. Optics Express, 26(19), 24372-24383. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.26.024372
• Zhou, C., Hedayati, M. K., Zhu, X., Nielsen, F., Levy, U., & Kristensen, A. (2018). Optofluidic Sensor for Inline Hemolysis Detection on Whole Blood. ACS Sensors, 3(4), 784-791. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.8b00030
• Zhu, X., Hedayati, M. K., Raza, S., Levy, U., Mortensen, N. A., & Kristensen, A. (2018). Digital resonant laser printing: Bridging nanophotonic science and consumer products. Advanced Materials, 19, 7-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nantod.2017.10.002
• Elbahri, M., Abdelaziz, M., Homaeigohar, S., Elsharawy, A., Hedayati, M. K., Roeder, C., Assad, M. E. H., & Abdelaziz, R. (2018). Plasmonic Metaparticles on a Blackbody Create Vivid Reflective Colors for Naked-Eye Environmental and Clinical Biodetection. Advanced Materials, 30(4), Article 1704442. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201704442
• Hedayati, M. K., & Elbahri, M. (2017). Review of Metasurface Plasmonic Structural Color. Plasmonics, 12(5), 1463-1479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11468-016-0407-y
• Homaeigohar, S., Zillohu, A. U., Abdelaziz, R., Hedayati, M. K., & Elbahri, M. (2016). A Novel Nanohybrid Nanofibrous Adsorbent for Water Purification from Dye Pollutants. Materials, 9(10), Article 848. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9100848
• Hedayati, M. K., Abdelaziz, M., Etrich, C., Homaeigohar, S., Rockstuhl, C., & Elbahri, M. (2016). Broadband Anti-Reflective Coating Based on Plasmonic Nanocomposite. Materials, 9(8), Article 636. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9080636
• Hedayati, M. K., & Elbahri, M. (2016). Antireflective Coatings: Conventional Stacking Layers and Ultrathin Plasmonic Metasurfaces, A Mini-Review. Materials, 9(6), Article 497. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma9060497
• Grossmann, M., Klick, A., Lemke, C., Falke, J., Black, M., Fiutowski, J., Goszczak, A. J., Sobolewska, E., Zillohu, A. U., Hedayati, M. K., Rubahn, H.-G., Faupel, F., Elbahri, M., & Bauer, M. (2015). Light-Triggered Control of Plasmonic Refraction and Group Delay by Photochromic Molecular Switches. ACS Photonics, 2(9), 1327-1332. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00315
• Elbahri, M., Zillohu, A. U., Gothe, B., Hedayati, M. K., Abdelaziz, R., El-Khozondar, H. J., Bawa'aneh, M., Abdelaziz, M., Lavrinenko, A., Zhukovsky, S., & Homaeigohar, S. (2015). Photoswitchable molecular dipole antennas with tailored coherent coupling in glassy composite. Light: Science and Applications, 4, Article e316. https://doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2015.89
• Hedayati, M. K., Javaheri, M., Zillohu, A. U., El-Khozondar, H. J., Bawa'aneh, M. S., Lavrinenko, A., Faupel, F., & Elbahri, M. (2014). Photo-driven Super Absorber as an Active Metamaterial with a Tunable Molecular-Plasmonic Coupling. Advanced Optical Materials, 2(8), 705-710. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.201400105
• Hedayati, M. K., Faupel, F., & Elbahri, M. (2014). Review of Plasmonic Nanocomposite Metamaterial Absorber. Materials, 7(2), 1221-1248. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma7021221
• Etrich, C., Fahr, S., Hedayati, M. K., Faupel, F., Elbahri, M., & Rockstuhl, C. (2014). Effective Optical Properties of Plasmonic Nanocomposites. Materials, 7(2), 727-741. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma7020727
• Hedayati, M. K., Fahr, S., Etrich, C., Faupel, F., Rockstuhl, C., & Elbahri, M. (2014). The hybrid concept for realization of an ultra-thin plasmonic metamaterial antireflection coating and plasmonic rainbow. Nanoscale, 6(11), 6037-6045. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4nr00087k
• Hedayati, M., Zillohu, A., Strunskus, T., Faupel, F., & Elbahri, M. (2014). Plasmonic tunable metamaterial absorber as ultraviolet protection film. Applied Physics Letters, 104(4), Article 041103. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4863202
• Abdelaziz, R., Disci-Zayed, D., Hedayati, M. K., Poehls, J.-H., Zillohu, A. U., Erkartal, B., Chakravadhanula, V. S. K., Duppel, V., Kienle, L., & Elbahri, M. (2013). Green chemistry and nanofabrication in a levitated Leidenfrost drop. Nature Communications, 4, Article 2400. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms3400
• Hedayati, M. K., Faupel, F., & Elbahri, M. (2012). Tunable broadband plasmonic perfect absorber at visible frequency. Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing, 109(4), 769-773. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-012-7344-1
• Zillohu, A. U., Abdelaziz, R., Hedayati, M. K., Emmler, T., Homaeigohar, S., & Elbahri, M. (2012). Plasmon-Mediated Embedding of Nanoparticles in a Polymer Matrix: Nanocomposites Patterning, Writing, and Defect Healing. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116(32), 17204-17209. https://doi.org/10.1021/jp3016358
• Zillohu, A. U., Abdelaziz, R., Hedayati, M. K., Emmler, T., Homaeigohar, S., & Elbahri, M. (2012). Plasmon-Mediated Embedding of Nanoparticles in a Polymer Matrix: Nanocomposites Patterning, Writing, and Defect Healing (vol 116, pg 17204, 2012). Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 116(36), https://doi.org/10.1021/jp308587t
• Hedayati, M. K., Javaherirahim, M., Mozooni, B., Abdelaziz, R., Tavassolizadeh, A., Chakravadhanula, V. S. K., Zaporojtchenko, V., Strunkus, T., Faupel, F., & Elbahri, M. (2011). Design of a Perfect Black Absorber at Visible Frequencies Using Plasmonic Metamaterials. Advanced Materials, 23(45), https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201102646
• Elbahri, M., Hedayati, M. K., Chakravadhanula, V. S. K., Jamali, M., Strunkus, T., Zaporojtchenko, V., & Faupel, F. (2011). An Omnidirectional Transparent Conducting-Metal-Based Plasmonic Nanocomposite. Advanced Materials, 23(17), 1993-1997. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201003811
• Jamali, M., Hedayati, M. K., Mozooni, B., Javaherirahim, M., Abdelaziz, R., Zillohu, A. U., & Elbahri, M. (2011). Photoresponsive Transparent Conductive Metal with a Photobleaching Nose. Advanced Materials, 23(37), 4243-4247. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201102353
• Hedayati, M. K., Mahboubi, F., & Nickchi, T. (2009). Comparison of conventional and active screen plasma nitriding of hard chromium electroplated steel. Vacuum, 83(8), 1123-1128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2009.02.005