Mohammad Umar Farooq Khan

Dr. Khan is currently a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan at the department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. He is continuing to work in the same lab with his advisor who was previously faculty at Texas A&M University. His current work area includes Material development and testing in extreme environment for nuclear and solar power technologies such as molten salts at high temperatures and purification of salts .

Prior to postdoc he spent few months as Visiting Researcher at North Carolina State University where he worked on cold sprayed metallic coating on commercial Magnesium alloys for improved wear and corrosion resistance.

He received hi Ph.D. in Chemical and Corrosion Engineering from the University of Akron in 2020. His Ph.D. work involved development of nanocrystalline Magnesium alloys with high hardness and corrosion resistant for light weight applications. However apart from PhD work he had industrial collaboration for corrosion testing of cold sprayed metallic coatings.

He completed his bachelors Metallurgical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Raipur and masters from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in Corrosion Science and Engineering. After masters he continued at the same institute as Senior Research Fellow where he worked on Stress Corrosion Cracking and hot salt stress corrosion cracking, corrosion testing for industrial consulting service and polymer coating additive modification for improved corrosion resistance.