Mitra Taheri has been promoted to Hoeganaes Professor, effective September 1, 2018.
Taheri joined Drexel’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering as Hoeganeas Assistant Professor in the 2008 academic year and was promoted to Hoeganaes Associate Professor, effective September 1, 2014. She earned her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005. Prior to joining Drexel Materials, Taheri was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a Guest Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and worked at the Naval Research Laboratory, where she was chosen as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow.
In 2016, Taheri was one of seven faculty members selected as 2016 Provost Fellow. The program allows for the Fellows to take on special projects of significance to the University, collaborating with upper-level administrators for one year. Taheri analyzed best practices for large-funded center activities, working alongside Dr. Aleister Saunders, Senior Vice Provost for Research.
For 2017-2018, Taheri was one of two Drexel faculty members selected to take part in the Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (now ELATES at Drexel®) leadership development program. ELATES is a national program designed to advance senior women faculty in academic engineering, computer science, and related fields into effective institutional leadership roles within their schools and universities.
Taheri’s research interests range from the development of the ultrafast Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope (DTEM) for the study of laser-induced microstructural evolution/phase transformations in nanostructured materials, to the use of various in-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy techniques. Her research has been published in Science, Journal of Applied Physics, and several other reputable peer-reviewed journals.
Educationally, she helped form Drexel’s minor in Nuclear Engineering, and developed an NRC-funded program to attract women to materials and nuclear energy science: “Drexel WINS: Women in Nuclear Science.”