Dr. Behzad V. Farahani, a senior researcher in Mechanical Engineering, received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Innovation in Railway Systems and Technologies from the University of Porto in 2019. He received his Master's degree in Computational Mechanics from the same university in 2015. His research is related to experimental mechanics in addition to numerical analysis of demanding structural components. Elastoplastic, damage, fracture, and fatigue analysis; material characterization; structural health monitoring, and development of non-destructive evaluation are the areas of his expertise.