Postdoctoral Fellow, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Department, University of Waterloo.Dr. Roostaei works in the field of cyclic plasticity of metals, specifically magnesium alloys. He has developed a new cyclic plasticity model applicable to wrought magnesium alloys, which exhibit unusual plastic flow characteristics under cyclic conditions. During the model development process he completed a comprehensive review of these models into numerical code for the purpose of comparing the results of his model in similar loading cases. He has published over a dozen articles in peer-reviewed internationally renowned journals.