Dr. Ebad Bagherpour is a Lecturer at the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology (BCAST), Brunel University London. He completed his B.Sc. studies in Materials Science and Engineering at Shiraz University in 2007, his M.Sc. studies in Materials Science and Engineering at Shiraz University in 2011, and his PhD studies in Materials Science and Engineering at Semnan University in 2016. His research interests include severe plastic deformation, metal matrix composites, modeling and simulation, deformation mechanisms, mechanical properties, mechanical joining, and self-piercing riveting (SPR).