Dr Muhammad Naeem

School of Metallurgy and Materials
Research Fellow

Contact details

Email: m.naeem@bham.ac.uk
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Address: School of Metallurgy and Materials
University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr Muhammad Naeem is a Research Fellow at the School of Metallurgy and Materials, University 麻豆精选.

He also holds a visiting position at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. His research focuses on developing alloys for extreme environments and their real-time deformation mechanisms investigation, mainly by neutron and synchrotron diffraction.

Qualifications

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), 2024
Ph.D. in Materials Physics, City University of Hong Kong, 2020
M.Sc. in Materials Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2010
B.Sc. in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Lahore, 2008

Biography

Dr Muhammad Naeem is a Research Fellow at the University 麻豆精选 and holds a visiting position at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. He obtained his PhD in Materials Physics from the City University of Hong Kong in 2020, where he subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher for three years. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Dr Naeem’s research focuses on the design and performance of advanced metallic materials with multidisciplinary properties for extreme environments. With a strong emphasis on in-situ mechanical testing, he has over couple of dozens of successful neutron and synchrotron beamtime proposal awards to his credit as a principal investigator or co-investigator.

Dr Naeem has spearheaded in-situ neutron diffraction investigations to explore the cryogenic deformation behaviour of multicomponent high-entropy alloys, which are promising candidates for hydrogen-based energy systems. His research has been published in leading journals, including Science Advances, Physical Review Letters, and Acta Materialia, and presented at international conferences. His work in Science Advances was featured by PHYS.ORG and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and is among the most cited studies conducted at the Engineering Materials Diffraction Beamline of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. He received the award of Best Paper in Materials from the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. Dr Naeem was also awarded the 2022 AONSA (Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association) Young Research Fellowship to conduct collaborative research at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex.

Dr Naeem has organized the inaugural Gordon Research Seminar on Structural Nanomaterials in Switzerland (May 2024) and the symposium Materials Under Extreme Environments: Process-Structure-Property Relationship at the International Materials Research Congress in Cancun, Mexico (August 2024). He also delivered invited seminars and talks, including at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials in Germany and the Gordon Research Conference on Structural Nanomaterials in Switzerland.

Postgraduate supervision

Supervision of student theses on mechanical behaviour of advanced alloys under extreme environments.

Other activities

Organizer, 2024 Gordon Research Seminar on Structural Nanomaterials, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
Organizer, Symposium “Materials Under Extreme Environments: Process-Structure-Property Relationship”, 32^ndInternational Materials Research Congress, Cancun, Mexico
Editorial Board Member of journal cMat
Gest Editor, Special Issue of journal Crystals “Processing−Microstructure−Properties Relationship of Advanced Alloys”
Referee for neutron beamtime proposals at Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex
Diamond–Birmingham Collaboration Review Panel Member
ISIS Neutron & Muon Source User Committee Member for Engineering (IUG7)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Naeem, M, Rehman, AU, Romero Resendiz, L, Salamci, E, Aydin, H, Ansari, P, Harjo, S, Gong, W, Usta, Y, Canyurt, OE, Wang, XL & Salamci, MU 2025, '', Communications Materials, vol. 6, no. 1, 65.

Romero-Resendiz, L, Huang, Y, Knowles, AJ, Kelleher, J, Lee, TL, Mousavi, T & Naeem, M 2025, '', Scripta Materialia, vol. 258, 116527.

Naeem, M, S谩nchez Cruz, RJ, Esquivel Neri, MA, Ma, Y, Amig贸 Borr谩s, V, Gonz谩lez, G, Knowles, AJ, Gong, W, Harjo, S, Zhu, YT, Wang, XL & Romero-Resendiz, L 2024, '', Materials Science and Engineering: A, vol. 916, 147374.

Werner, KV, Naeem, M, Niessen, F, Zhu, L, Villa, M, Wang, X-L & Somers, MAJ 2024, '', Acta Materialia, vol. 278, 120271.

Res茅ndiz, LR, Cano, TS, Naeem, M, Rehman, AU, Salamci, E, Mendoza, VT, Duran, ED, D铆az, LB & Salamci, MU 2024, '', Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance.

Ma, Y, Naeem, M, Zhu, L, He, H, Sun, X, Yang, Z, He, F, Harjo, S, Kawasaki, T & Wang, X-L 2024, '', Acta Materialia, vol. 270, 119822.

Gonz谩lez-Guill茅n, C, Romero-Resendiz, L, Naeem, M, Vidilli, AL, Otani, LB, Klyatskina, E, Gonzalez, G & Amig贸, V 2024, '', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 980, 173605.

Romero-Resendiz, L, Kong, HJ, Zhang, T, Ni, H, Chen, S, Naeem, M & Zhu, YT 2023, '', Materials Science and Engineering: A, vol. 886, 145676.

Romero-Resendiz, L, Naeem, M & Zhu, YT 2023, '', MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 2346-2360.

Zhang, F, Lu, B, Liu, X, Wang, H, Jiang, S, Naeem, M, Wang, X-L, Wu, Y & Lu, Z 2023, '', Intermetallics, vol. 153, 107800.

Wen, X, Zhu, L, Naeem, M, Huang, H, Jiang, S, Wang, H, Liu, X, Zhang, X, Wang, X-L, Wu, Y & Lu, Z 2023, '', Scripta Materialia, vol. 231, 115434.

Gonz谩lez-Guill茅n, C, Kamel, GAH, Degalez-Duran, E, Klyatskina, E, Naeem, M, Romero-Resendiz, L, Gonzalez, G & Borr谩s, VA 2023, '', Materials, vol. 16, no. 23, 7362.

Wu, X, Lan, S, Li, X, Yang, M, Wu, Z, Wei, X, He, H, Naeem, M, Zhou, J, Lu, Z, Gilbert, EP, Ma, D & Wang, X-L 2022, '', Journal of Materials Science & Technology, vol. 101, pp. 285-293.

Review article

Romero-Resendiz, L & Naeem, M 2025, '', Journal of Materials Research.

Edalati, K, Ahmed, AQ, Akrami, S, Ameyama, K, Aptukov, V, Asfandiyarov, RN, Ashida, M, Astanin, V, Bachmaier, A, Beloshenko, V, Bobruk, EV, Bry艂a, K, Cabrera, JM, Carvalho, AP, Chinh, NQ, Choi, IC, Chulist, R, Cubero-Sesin, JM, Davdian, G, Demirtas, M, Divinski, S, Durst, K, Dvorak, J, Edalati, P, Emura, S, Enikeev, NA, Faraji, G, Figueiredo, RB, Floriano, R, Fouladvind, M, Fruchart, D, Fuji, M, Fujiwara, H, Gajdics, M, Gheorghe, D, Gondek, L, Gonz谩lez-Hern谩ndez, JE, Gornakova, A, Grosdidier, T, Gubicza, J, Gunderov, D, He, L, Higuera, OF, Hirosawa, S, Hohenwarter, A, Horita, Z, Horky, J, Huang, Y, Huot, J, Ikoma, Y, Ishihara, T, Ivanisenko, Y, Jang, JI, Jorge, AM, Kawabata-Ota, M, Kawasaki, M, Khelfa, T, Kobayashi, J, Kommel, L, Korneva, A, Kral, P, Kudriashova, N, Kuramoto, S, Langdon, TG, Lee, DH, Levitas, VI, Li, C, Li, HW, Li, Y, Li, Z, Lin, HJ, Liss, KD, Liu, Y, Cardona, DMM, Matsuda, K, Mazilkin, A, Mine, Y, Miyamoto, H, Moon, SC, M眉ller, T, Mu帽oz, JA, Murashkin, MY, Naeem, M, Novelli, M, Olasz, D, Pippan, R, Popov, VV, Popova, EN, Purcek, G, de Rango, P, Renk, O, Retraint, D, R茅v茅sz, 脕, Roche, V, Rodriguez-Calvillo, P, Romero-Resendiz, L, Sauvage, X, Sawaguchi, T, Sena, H, Shahmir, H, Shi, X, Sklenicka, V, Skrotzki, W, Skryabina, N, Staab, F, Straumal, B, Sun, Z, Szczerba, M, Takizawa, Y, Tang, Y, Valiev, RZ, Vozniak, A, Voznyak, A, Wang, B, Wang, JT, Wilde, G, Zhang, M, Zhang, P, Zhou, J, Zhu, X, Zhu, YT & Zhang, F 2024, '', Journal of Alloys and Compounds, vol. 1002, 174667.