Saeedeh Vanaei is a PhD candidate in Mechanical engineering at the University of Toledo with a background in materials science and engineering. During her master’s studies at the Institute of National Science in France, she studied additive manufacturing of polymers. Her focus was on the microstructure evolution and mechanical behavior of polymers produced by FDM/FFF method. Her research has been published in 5 peer-reviewed journals. In her PhD studies, she works on additive manufacturing of Shape memory alloys (SMAs) for biomedical and aerospace applications. Her focus is on the thermomechanical behavior, microstructure evolution, and texture of SMAs. she designs parts using optimized process parameters and studies the effect of parameters on the resulting parts fabricated by Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF). Additionally, she investigates the effect of post processing on the fabricated parts and is developing optimized post processing techniques of NiTi and NITiHf (a high temperature SMA) to minimize the internal defects and cracks.