Dr. Hamed Shahmir graduated from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tehran, in 2015. After graduation, he started working at the University of Southampton in the UK as a Research Fellow (2015–2017) and then succeeded in obtaining support from the National Elites Foundation of the Islamic Republic of Iran for accomplishing research as a Research Fellow at the University of Tehran (2017–2019). Afterwards, he held a position as a Research Associate at the University of Sheffield, UK (2019–2020). After that, he returned to Iran and worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering of Tarbiat Modares University. His experience in material processing combined with a strong background in physical metallurgy, phase transformations and deformation mechanisms at ambient and high temperatures place him in a very strong position to work on microstructure engineering using metallic materials. In addition, ultrafine-grained and nanostructured materials, shape memory alloys and high-entropy alloys are among his interests.