Fatemeh Mokhtari

Research fellow, KU Leuven University,Belgium.

Dr. Fatemeh Mokhtari is a materials scientist and engineer focused on developing novel materials for sensors and generators. She graduated from the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute at the University of Wollongong in 2020. Her PhD research addresses one of the grand challenges of smart wearable technology, specifically being able to achieve a balance between the ideal properties of piezoelectric materials for energy harvesting and their manufacturing processes. She emphasizes flexibility, ease of fabrication, and mass producibility, which are crucial for the commercialization of smart textiles.

In 2022, Dr. Mokhtari was awarded the prestigious Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowship from Deakin University, where she has been conducting research at Carbon Nexus and the Institute for Frontier Materials. Her work explores 2D materials, including MXene, in piezoelectric nanocomposite structures for fabricating sound energy harvesters and sensors for carbon fiber composite health monitoring.

In 2023, Dr. Mokhtari received funding from the European Commission's Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions fellowship. During this two-year fellowship, she will continue her research at the department of surface and interface engineered materials at KU Leuven university in Belgium, focusing on smart biomaterials.