Dr. Said Ahzi is Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University and Acting Research Director at Qatar Environmental and Energy Research Institute (QEERI/HBKU). Prior to joining QEERI/HBKU, he held a a Distinguished Professor position at the University of Strasbourg – France, where he also served as Associate Dean for the Professional Institute of Science & Technology, Director of the Industrial Engineering Program, Coordinator of the Master Program in Mechanics and Associate-Coordinator for the Master of Computational Engineering. He also served as the founding Leader for the Research group in Materials-Processing-and-Microstructure at the Institute of Mechanics of Fluids and Solids/CNRS.

Development of multiscale and multiphysics approaches, Microstructure sensitive design of materials, Bridging microstructure, properties and processing, Integrated Computational Materials Engineering, Modeling of manufacturing processes including Additive Manufacturing, Development of physically-based constitutive laws for thermo-mechanical and physical behavior of heterogeneous materials (metals, polymers, biopolymers, thin films, nanocomposites) and Thermal & thermo-mechanical analyses of materials, structures & devices.