Dr. Parvez Alam
The University of Edinburgh, UK
Speech Title: Architects of Matter: Designing Materials with Unique Mechanical Properties and Behaviours

Parvez Alam is a Reader in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. He also holds Adjunct Professorships at AAU, Finland and at UGM, Indonesia. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, and a Chartered Mechanical Engineer. His activities and interests are in the fields of biomimetic design, mechanical metamaterials and composites engineering. He researches a number of different biological organisms from a structure-properties perspective, and is active in developing mechanical materials and multi-body systems.