**Meet the editor**

Dr. Farzad Ebrahimi was born in Qazvin, Iran, in 1979. He graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2002. He received his MSc and PhD in mechanical engineering, with a specialization in applied design, from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2009. Since 2002, he has been working at the "Smart Materials and Structures Lab" Research Center of the

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tehran, where he is a researcher of smart functionally graded materials and structures. He joined the department of mechanical engineering of Imam Khomeini International University as an assistant professor in 2010.Dr. Ebrahimi is involved in several international journals as editor and reviewer and serves on the editorial board of the SAGE publication *Journal of Advances in Mechanical Engineering*. He is the author of the books *Smart Functionally Graded Plates* and *Progress in Analysis of Functionally Graded Structures*, published by Nova Science Publishers, NY. He also served as the editor of the book *Nanocomposites - New Trends and Developments*, published by In-Tech - Open Access Publisher. His research interests focus on the areas of smart materials and structures, nanostructures, vibration nanocomposites, composite materials and structures, and he has published several researches in these fields. His research in these areas has been presented at international conferences and appeared in academic journals such as *Composite Structures*, *Composites Part B*, *Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology*, *Smart Materials and Structures*, *European Journal of Mechanics*, and *Archive of Applied Mechanics*. Dr. Ebrahimi also has strong collaboration with Iranian industries on gas and oil projects, and he serves as an ad hoc referee in several top academic journals.
