Hamid Assadi is the Head of the Virtual Engineering Centre and Professor of Solidification at Brunel University London, UK. He studied Materials Engineering at Shiraz University and received his PhD in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge in 1996. He was awarded a Research Fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation in 2004. His work experience includes a professorship at Tarbiat Modares University, and several visiting appointments at Helmut Schmidt University, RWTH Aachen, Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). He has over thirty years of experience in multiphysics modelling of dynamic systems, ranging from materials processing to vehicular traffic, using various techniques such as the cellular automata, the phase-field method, and the mean-field theory. He is interested in understanding the underlying mechanisms of dynamic materials phenomena, such as disorder and solute trapping during rapid solidification of alloys and intermetallics, besides computer programming and software development.