Amirhossein Pakseresht is an associate professor and head of coating department at FunGlass Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass, Alexander Dubček University of Trencin, Slovakia. He received his undergraduate study in materials science and engineering from Tehran University which is the biggest and oldest university in Iran. Pakseresht completed his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC). During his PhD, he also worked as a researcher in MERC and involved in so many industrial projects. After completion of his Ph.D. He joined the Tehran University as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of material engineering. In 2019, he has joined Amirkabir University (Tehran Polytechnic) as an adjunct research assistant professor and involved in so many projects about coating and composite. Generally speaking, his research interests lie in the area of plasma spraying, with a focus on splat morphology and new thermal barrier coatings. He also has collaborated actively in multidisciplinary materials science, particularly surface science, anti corrosion coating and composite materials. Dr. Pakseresht authored a book titled production, properties, and application of high-temperature coatings in IGI Global, USA. He also authored a book titled Physical chemistry and thermodynamic of materials (in Persian). He has published more than 50 journal papers, 5 patents and 5 international book chapters which were cited 1500 times (h-index 21) until 2021. He is a member of the editorial board and reviewer of more than 10 international scientific journals.
Omid Sharifahmadian received his Ph.D. in Materials and Metallurgical Engineering (coating and surface engineering) from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran in 2019. During his Ph. D, he could join as a scholar in the Applied Plasma and Surface Engineering Research Group at University of Sydney, Australia. He has a good background in the field of surface engineering, tribology, plasma processing, and coating. Dr. Omid Sharifahmadian has experienced on the working with a variety of coating processes such as DC- pulsed PECVD, RF-PECVD, PVD, and thermal spray methods. He joined department of coating in FunGlass – Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass at Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín, Slovakia from April 2021. He focused on a variety of issues such as tribological behavior, structural evolution, mechanical properties and hydrophobicity in the fields of thin film and coatings. Moreover, during his research in FunGlass center, he could join as a scholar in Nano Research Infrastructure group at Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) in Brno, Czech Republic. He has published many papers in high impact journals which were cited by many authors.