Behnam Pourdeyhimi

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Dr. Pourdeyhimi is The William A. Klopman Distinguished Chaired Professor of Fiber and Textile Materials in the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University. He holds a joint appointment in Textiles and Chemical Engineering. He is currently the Associate Dean for Industry Research and Extension and is also the Director of the Nonwovens Institute and the Nonwovens Cooperative Research Center (NCRC). Prior to joining NC State, he was a professor at the School of Textiles and Fiber Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he served for eleven years on the faculty in Textiles and Materials & Nuclear Engineering at the University of Maryland. He spent two years at Cornell as a research scientist studying medical textiles. He is the recipient of the 1994-1995 Distinguished Achievement Award by the Fiber Society. He has served as the President of the Fiber Society and has also been elected as the Fellow of the Textile Institute in United Kingdom.

Dr. Pourdeyhimi's research interests are in the area of nonwovens, materials, biomaterials, failure mechanisms, special fiber-based structures, instrumentation, software algorithms, optics and image analysis. He has published over one hundred and fifty refereed publications and has presented over one hundred and fifty presentations in his areas of interest. His expertise is recognized by major corporations and leading research bodies around the world. He has acted as consultant to many bodies and major corporations.