Dr Muhammad Naeem

School of Metallurgy and Materials
Research Fellow

Contact details

Email: m.naeem@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @_naeem1

Address: School of Metallurgy and Materials
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr. Muhammad Naeem is a Research Fellow at the School of Metallurgy & Materials. The focus of his research is on the structure and the deformation behavior of advanced alloys under extreme environments. Dr. Naeem employs synchrotron and neutron diffraction for the in situ structural evolution studies.

Dr. Naeem has published 20 research papers which has been cited more than 500 times so far. His work has been published in prestigious journals, such as Science Advances, Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Applied Physics Letters, etc.

Dr. Naeem has been awarded the Young Research Fellowship by the Asia-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association. He has been visiting various international large-scale neutron scattering facilities, including the support for designing and execution of neutron diffraction experiments. He also received the award of Best Paper on Materials from the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.

Dr. Naeem will be Chair of the Gordon Research Seminar on Structural Nanomaterials 2024 in Switzerland. Currently, he is Guest Editor of the special issue "Processing-Microstructure-Properties Relationship of Advanced Alloys" of the journal Crystals.

Qualifications

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

Teaching

Mechanical Metallurgy
Non-Destructive Testing
Characterization of Materials

Postgraduate supervision

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

Research

Advanced alloys
Neutron diffraction
Mechanical behaviour
Extreme environments

Other activities

Chair, Gordon Research Seminar on Structural Nanomaterials 2024
Gest Editor, Special Issue of journal Crystals “Processing−Microstructure−Properties Relationship of Advanced Alloys”
Reviewer for journals: Acta Materialia; Scripta Materialia; Applied Physics Letters; Advanced Engineering Materials; Journal of Materials Science and Technology; Journal of Alloys and Compounds; Intermetallics; Rare Metals; Materials Science and Engineering: A; Communications Materials
Referee for neutron beamtime proposals at Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex

Publications

Selected Publications

L. Romero-Resendiz*, M. Naeem*, Y.T. Zhu, ‘Heterostructured Materials by Severe Plastic Deformation: Overview and Perspectives’, Materials Transactions, 64 (2023) 2346–2360.
M. Naeem, H. He, S. Harjo, T. Kawasaki, W. Lin, J.J. Kai, Z. Wu, S. Lan, X.L. Wang, ‘Temperature-dependent hardening contributions in CrFeCoNi high-entropy alloy’, Acta Materialia, 221 (2021) 117371.
M. Naeem, H. Zhou, H. He, S. Harjo, T. Kawasaki, S. Lan, Z. Wu, Y. Zhu, X.L. Wang, ‘Martensitic transformation in CrCoNi medium-entropy alloy at cryogenic temperature’, Applied Physics Letters, 119 (2021) 131901.
H. He, M. Naeem, F. Zhang, Y. Zhao, S. Harjo, T. Kawasaki, B. Wang, X. Wu, S. Lan, Z. Wu, W. Yin, Y. Wu, Z. Lu, J.J. Kai, C.T. Liu, X.L. Wang, ‘Stacking fault driven phase transformation in CrCoNi medium entropy alloy’, Nano Letters, 21 (2021) 1419–1426.
M. Naeem, H. He, F. Zhang, H. Huang, S. Harjo, T. Kawasaki, B. Wang, S. Lan, Z. Wu, F. Wang, Y. Wu, Z. Lu, Z. Zhang, C.T. Liu, X.L. Wang, ‘Cooperative deformation in high-entropy alloys at ultralow temperatures’, Science Advances 6 (2020) eaax4002. [highlighted by PHYS.ORG & the Japan Atomic Energy Agency]
M. Naeem, H. He, S. Harjo, T. Kawasaki, F. Zhang, B. Wang, S. Lan, Z. Wu, Y. Wu, Z. Lu, C.T. Liu, X.L. Wang, ‘Extremely high dislocation density and deformation pathway of CrMnFeCoNi high entropy alloy at ultralow temperature’, Scripta Materialia, 188 (2020) 21–25.
M. Naeem, S. Lan, B. Wang, X.Y. Wei, J. Zhou, Y. Ren, Z.P. Lu, D. Ma, A.D. Stoica, X.L. Wang, ‘Suppression of crystallization in a Ca-based bulk metallic glass by compression’, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 765 (2018) 595– 600.

A full list of papers can be found on Google Scholar, and ORCiD