Diran Apelian
American materials scientist
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Diran Apelian (born in Cairo, Egypt, in October 1945) is an American materials scientist, educator and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He currently serves as a Distinguished Professor at University of California, Irvine's Samueli School of Engineering. He is also Chief Strategy Officer and leads the Advanced Casting Research Center. Earlier in his career, he served as Provost at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he established the Metal Processing Institute.[1][2][3][4][5]
Research
Apelian's research has spanned materials processing, with sustained contributions to solidification science, casting technology, and—more recently—materials recovery and recycling. According to his UC Irvine faculty profile, his research areas include solidification processing, aluminum metallurgy, clean metal and melt refining, plasma processing and spray forming, powder metallurgy, nanostructured materials, semi-solid processing, thermal processing, and resource recovery and recycling.[1]
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