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About

Dr. Zoheir Farhat earned his PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, in 1996 for the fabrication and tribological behaviour of nano-laminated composite coatings. Since receiving his PhD, Dr. Farhat has held many positions in academia, industry and government research laboratories. In 2005, he joined Dalhousie University and was later appointed Chair of the Materials Engineering Program in 2007.

Dr. Farhat is the founder and Director of the Advanced Tribology Laboratory (ATL) and is a member of the Institute of Research in Materials (IRM) at Dalhousie University. To-date, his lifetime research has resulted in over 140 journal papers and conference contributions, and over 40 technical reports. With over 25 years of experience in the field of degradation and micro-mechanical characterization of advanced materials and coatings, Dr. Farhat's work has been published in some of the most prestigious international journals. He has attracted over $10M in research funding and trained over 60 graduate students (MASc, PhD), postdocs, senior undergrad students and research engineers.

Dr. Farhat has organized and chaired Corrosion and Wear of Materials symposia and he has established many national and international collaborations with industry and academia. Dr. Farhat is an active member of many professional societies and a former member of the board of review and key reader in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, TMS.

Recent Positions Held & Professional Activities

Chair of the Materials Engineering Program at Dalhousie University, 2007- present
Director, Advanced Tribology Laboratory (ATL), 2005-present
NSERC Research Tools and Instruments (RTI) 2017-2018 pear review committee member.
External examiner for a PhD candidate at McGill University, 2017.
Sessions Chair and Judge, Canadian Materials Science Conference, Halifax, 2015.
Founding member of an initiative to establish a national Academic Research Network in pipeline engineering, 2014
NSERC site visit for a renewal of a senior chair in Corrosion Control and Materials Performance in Nuclear Power Systems at the University of Toronto 2014
External examiner for a PhD candidate at McGill University, 2014
External examiner for a PhD candidate at the University of Windsor, 2011
Former Chair of the “Materials Integrity and Performance Section” of the Metallurgical Society (MetSoc) of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum (CIM), 2007-2010
Former Vice Chair of the “Materials Integrity and Performance Section” of the Metallurgical Society (MetSoc) of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy & Petroleum (CIM), 2005-2007
Member of the Board of Directors of MetSoc-CIM, 2005- 2010
Member of the Board of Review and Key Reader in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, TMS, 2006-2010
Member of Canadian Materials Engineering Education Council (comprising of Materials Engineering Chairs from all Canadian Universities), 2007-2010
Member of Killam proctorial scholarship committee, 2007-2010
Manager of XRD facility at Dalhousie University, 2006-2010
Chair, “Wear and Corrosion of Materials” Symposium, Conference of Metallurgist, COM 2008, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Member of the technical committee, COM 2008, Winnipeg, MT.
Editor for conference proceedings, COM 2008, Winnipeg, MT.
Co-Chaired a Symposium on “Materials Performance in Sulfur Plants” in COM 2009, the Conference of Metallurgists, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Aug. 2009
Editor, Corrosion and Wear of Materials, Conference Proceedings, COM 2008, Winnipeg, MT.
Member of the technical Committee for COM 2008 and COM 2009
Registered as Professional Engineer with the association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia (APENS)
Reviewer for many of the most prominent journals, such as, Wear, Metall, and Mat. Trans., Mat. Sci. and Eng. A and Trib. Trans. Also acted as reviewer for NSERC, CFI and others

Zoheir N. Farhat, Ph.D., P.Eng.

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Recent Positions Held & Professional Activities