Prof. Dr. Hatem S. Zurob is the Professor, and the Chair at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University (since 2017). He obtained his PhD from McMaster University in 2003. He held post-doctoral fellowships at the Grenoble Institute and Technology and Oxford University. He joined McMaster University as an Assistant Professor in 2005. Dr. Zurob is the recipient of the Sawamura Award and Guimaraise Award of ISIJ (2006), MSU Teaching Awards (2007 and 2008), and the Best Young Researcher Award of Internationally Recrystallization and Grain Growth Conference (2013). He also actively participates in professional societies including ASM, TMS, and ASM Materials Camps Canada. His expertise is microstructural evolution in engineering materials and the effect of microstructure on mechanical properties.