Dr.-Ing. Waseem Amin has more than 10 years of research and teaching experience in the field of Materials Engineering. He earned his BSc. (Engr.) degree in the field of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore in 2010. In 2010, he joined Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering as a Lab Engineer at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Topi KPK and did his MSc. (Engr.) from the same faculty on fully funded scholarship awarded by GIKI. He is currently working as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering.
In 2012, he joined Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at UET Lahore as a visiting lecturer then he joined UET Taxila in 2014 as a lecturer to help the establishment of Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering and taught UG courses to the students of Mechanical Engineering Department. Additionally, he served there as Deputy Director Placement and Career Counselling, Deputy Director International Linkages, and Assistant PEB Coordinator to organize CPD activities.
In 2016, he moved to Germany to do doctoral research work on modeling and simulation of grain boundary strengthening in metals using strain-gradient crystal plasticity coupled multi-phase filed modeling in an open source code OpenPhase. He also contributed to a sub project funded by SFB and DFG on Ni-based super alloys. He presented his work at different forums mainly in Germany. After returning to Pakistan he joined Abbottabad University of Engineering and Technology in 2021 to contribute towards the establishment of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Engineering to offer degree programs in materials engineering, to offer short course/training for industry personnel, commercial materials' testing facilities for industries and academia. He also served there as Director Admissions.
He joined Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, University of the Punjab, Lahore in spring 2022 to create a positive impact through value addition and working towards the awareness and promotion of computational materials engineering in Pakistan. Currently, he is performing his duties as Assistant Professor, Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. |