PhD, P.Eng., FAAAS, FIUPAC, FASME, FASM, FCSME, FCAE, FEIC, FRSC
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Director, Centre for Advanced Coatings Technologies (CACT)
Email: mostag@mie.utoronto.ca
Tel: 416-978-5604
Office: BA8260
Research Group: Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies (CACT)
Research Areas
Materials
Thermofluids
Research Interests
Advanced coatings, thermal plasmas; thermal spray coatings; arcs; radio-frequency inductively coupled plasmas; computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer.
Bio
Dr. Javad Mostaghimi is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto and the director of the Centre for Advanced Coating Technologies (CACT). He received his BSc degree from Sharif University, Iran, in 1974 and his MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1978 and 1982, respectively. Before joining the University of Toronto in 1990, he held positions at Pratt & Whitney Canada, Longueuil, Quebec, and the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec.
His main research interests are the study of thermal spray coatings, including superhydrophobic coatings, thermal barriers, corrosion and wear-resistant coatings. He has performed comprehensive studies on the flow, temperature, and electromagnetic fields within arcs and RF inductively coupled plasmas. Professor Mostaghimi has done extensive simulations of droplet impact and solidification dynamics in thermal spray processes and has designed several novel DC and RF plasma torches.
Professor Mostaghimi is a fellow of the following professional societies: RSC (Royal Society of Canada), ASME, ASM, CSME, EIC, CAE, AAAS, IUPAC, and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. He is a member of the Qingdao International Academician Park. He is a recipient of the 75th Anniversary Medal of the ASME Heat Transfer Division, the recipient of the 2013 Robert W. Angus Medal of the CSME, the 2012 Heat Transfer Memorial Award of the ASME, the 2011 Jules Stachiewicz Medal of the CSME, the 2010 NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize and the 2009 Engineering Medal in R & D from the Professional Engineers of Ontario.
In May 2019, Dr. Mostaghimi was inducted into the ASM Thermal Spray Hall of Fame. In 2024, he received the prestigious Fitz Roy Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2024, Dr. Mostaghimi was elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors.
He is a member of the editorial board of Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing and a member of the International Review Board of the Journal of Thermal Spray.