Chief Materials Scientist, Joint Appointment
Physical Sciences Division
Chief Materials Scientist, Joint Appointment
Physical Sciences Division

Biography

Mitra Taheri is the Chief Materials Scientist in the Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. She is a co-lead of the Adaptive Tunability for Synthesis and Control via Autonomous Learning on Edge (AT SCALE) Initiative. Taheri is also a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, director of the Materials Characterization and Processing facility, and a member of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute. Her research primarily concerns electron microscopy and materials processing, with a specific focus on in-situ microscopy. Taheri’s team designs and builds platforms to study materials in a wide range of environments including high temperatures, stress, radiation, oxidation, and more. Her work involves developing new, faster, and more efficient ways of detecting what is inside being observed in the microscope by integrating artificial intelligence. Ideally this integration will improve researchers’ understanding of materials processes and help shape how new materials can be built for next generation applications.

Research Interest

  • microscopy
  • processing
  • additive manufacturing
  • high throughput science
  • data science
  • machine learning
  • materials of interest: metals/alloys, functional oxides, magnetics, and 2D materials, biomaterials and biopolymers

Education

  • PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
  • MS in Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
  • BS in Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Publications

2021

Spurgeon S.R., C. Ophus, L. Jones, A.K. Petford-Long, S.V. Kalinin, M.J. Olszta, and R. Dunin-Borkowski, et al. 2021. "Towards Data-Driven Next-Generation Transmission Electron Microscopy." Nature Materials 20. PNNL-SA-152427. doi:10.1038/s41563-020-00833-z

2016

Taheri M.L., E.A. Stach, I. Arslan, P.A. Crozier, B.C. Kabius, T. Lagrange, and A.M. Minor, et al. 2016. "Current status and future directions for in situ transmission electron microscopy." Ultramicroscopy 170. PNNL-SA-123174. doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2016.08.007

2013

Mehraeen S., J. McKeown, P.V. Deshmukh, J.E. Evans, P. Abellan Baeza, P. Xu, and B.W. Reed, et al. 2013. "A (S)TEM Gas Cell Holder with Localized Laser Heating for In Situ Experiments." Microscopy and Microanalysis 19, no. 2:470-478. PNNL-SA-88937. doi:10.1017/S1431927612014419

2011

Robertson I.M., C.A. Schuh, J.S. Vetrano, N. Browning, D.P. Field, D.J. Jensen, and M.K. Miller, et al. 2011. "Towards an integrated materials characterization toolbox." Journal of Materials Research 26, no. 11:1341-1383. PNNL-SA-81720. doi:10.1557/jmr.2011.41