Elnaz Esmizadeh

Roles and responsibilities

Assistant Research Officer of Construction Material Evaluation and Durability team in Façade Systems and Products group focusing on research and performance assessments of a wide range of materials used in construction and retrofit application for buildings and infrastructure with the emphasize on durability and service life prediction.

Current research and/or projects

- Contributor to Outdoor Aging of Sealants project focusing on the assessment of the performance and durability of sealants under real climate for 10 years.

- Contributor to a CRBE project of Decision support tools for building envelope performance assessment working on the development of the database for water ingress on building envelope components

- Contributor to ORED project of Accelerated ex-situ CO₂ mineralization using industrial solid wastes for production of long-live products focusing on using industrial solid wastes as feedstocks for developing a mineralization technology for post combustion CO2 capture.

- Contributor to Long-term durability assessment of building membranes in contact with low embodied carbon hempcrete focusing on performance evaluation of building membranes in contact with hempcrete

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, in Polymer Engineering, Iran Polymer and petrochemical Institute, Iran (2015)
Master of Science, in Polymer Engineering, Iran Polymer and petrochemical Institute, Iran (2010)
Bachelor of Science, in Polymer Engineering, Amirkabir University, Tehran, Iran (2008)

Affiliations

Guest Editor of Special issue « Effect of Fillers in Polymer Blends» and "Reinforced Rubber Composites: Synthesis and Application" in « Polymers »

Link : https://www.mdpi.com/journal/polymers/special_issues/magn_mater

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/polymers/special_issues/862C6ZN1WP

Awards

2022 Construction Research Centre Director General Innovation Award for your original research proposal Long-term durability assessment of building membranes in contact with low embodied carbon hempcrete (2023)
University of Bonab’s Top lecturer award (2018)
Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran scholarship for Ph.D. thesis (2012-2014)
Iran National Science Foundation Award for MSc thesis (2009)
Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC) grant for MSc and Ph.D. thesis (2008-2015)

Key publications

F. Kouhi, A. Vahidifar, G. Naderi, E. Esmizadeh, Tire-derived reclaimed rubber as a secondary raw material for rubber foams: in the framework of circular economy strategy, Journal of Polymer Research, 2023, 30, 97
J-F Masson, I. Lopez–Carreon, J. Wu, O. Obukohwo, P. Collins, M. Riahinezhad, E. Esmizadeh, Degradation and service-life prediction of silicone rubber in a highly alkaline environment simulating concrete, Engineering Failure Analysis, 2022, 138, 106305
E. Esmizadeh, B. Peng Chang, D. Jubinville, C. Seto, E. Ojogbo, C. Tzoganakis, T. H. Mekonnen Stability of nitrile and vinyl latex gloves under repeated disinfection cycles, Materials Today Sustainability, 2021, 11, 100067.
D. Jubinville, E. Esmizadeh, C. Tzoganakis, T. Mekonnen, Thermo-mechanical recycling of polypropylene for the facile and scalable fabrication of highly loaded wood plastic composites, Composites Part B: Engineering, 2021, 219, 108873.
D. Jubinville, E. Esmizadeh, S. Saikrishnan, C. Tzoganakis, T. Mekonnen, A comprehensive review on global production and recycling methods of polyolefin-based products and their post-recycling applications, Sustainable materials and technologies, 2020, 25, e00188.

Previous work experience

R&D engineer and rubber chemist, AirBoss Rubber Solution, (Sep. 2020-May 2021)
Postdoctoral researcher at university of Waterloo, Canada, (Oct. 2019-Sep. 2020)
Assistant professor, Polymer science and engineering department, University of Bonab, Iran, (Sep. 2016- Sep.2019)
Vice president of Iran Polymer Technology Incubator (2012-2013)