Mohammad obtained his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, in 2013.
He studied for his Master’s degree in Computational Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, which he received in 2016. His research at FAU focused on the finite element modelling (FEM) of heat transfer during the infrared welding process of glassfibre-reinforced thermoplastic.
Mohammad joined the biomaterials research group led by Prof Artemis Stamboulis at the School of Metallurgy and Materials in 2018, and obtained his PhD in 2023. During his research, he worked on the EU project DOC-3D-Printing, funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (grant agreement # 764935). In this project, he developed numerical models of laser powder bed additive manufacturing processes of bioceramics.
He utilised the discrete element method (DEM) to simulate the powder delivery process and developed a C++ based ray tracing code to evaluate the surface roughness. The complex C++ models coupled with DEM were further extended to study the laser heat transfer in the powder bed and subsequent sintering, which were used to produce a limited-scale selective laser sintering model.
Mohammad is currently working on developing molecular dynamic simulations for peptide interaction with different solvents and surfaces.