Mitra Taheri

Mitra Taheri is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, serving as Director of the Materials Characterization and Processing (MCP) facility and a member of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute. She holds affiliations with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute. Her research focuses on electron microscopy, particularly in-situ and operando techniques, combined with artificial intelligence to study materials under extreme conditions (e.g., high temperatures, radiation, and oxidation). She aims to accelerate materials discovery by integrating AI with microscopy for real-time analysis.

Dr. Taheri earned her BS, MSE, and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Her work spans corrosion-resistant alloys, additive manufacturing, quantum materials, and biomaterials. Research sponsors include PNNL, JHU, NSF, ARPA-E, and ONR. She leads the Dynamic Characterization Group (DCG), which develops autonomous platforms for materials analysis and explores applications in energy, aerospace, and medical systems.

Key research areas include:

• Design of corrosion-resistant multi-principal element alloys
• AI-driven microscopy for real-time material behavior insights
• Additive manufacturing of soft magnetic composites for electric vehicles
• Biomedical hydrogels for tissue engineering

Her team develops novel materials and tools to probe structural, functional, and biological systems across scales, with an emphasis on sustainability and extreme environment applications.