Prof. Dr. Mirmilad Mirsayar is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Aerospace, Physics, and Space Sciences at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). He is the Director of the Metacomposites Integrity Research Lab (MIR-Lab) at FIT. He earned his Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University in 2017. Prior to his current appointment at FIT, he served as a Postdoctoral Researcher and then as a Research Scientist in the Aerospace Engineering Department of Texas A&M University, working on several funded projects on advanced materials and structures, fracture mechanics and fatigue, and composite structures. His research interests include (i) Mechanics and Physics of Fracture in various complex material systems, (ii) Theoretical and Computational Mechanics, (iii) Mechanics of Advanced Composites and Cellular Structures, (iv) Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials, (v) Multiscale Fatigue Crack Growth; (vi) Additive Manufacturing; (vii) Constitutive Modeling of Multiphysics Deformation. Prof. Dr. Mirsayar has received several awards and recognitions to date, including a National Science Foundation Standard Research Grant Award, World’s Top 2% Researchers by Stanford University and Elsevier (2021-2024), and Outstanding Reviewer Awards from many prestigious journals in the field of solids and structures.