Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini is an assistant professor in the School of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of Iran University of Science and Technology in the field of Welding/Additive Manufacturing.

He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in Welding Metallurgy in 2018. His Ph.D. research topic was “The Processes and Mechanisms for the Enhancement of Laser-Welded Joint Strength of Dissimilar Ti6Al4V-304 Stainless Steel”. Meanwhile, he has some publications in the field of laser additive manufacturing. He finished his postdoctoral study at the University of Aveiro in Portugal in the field of simulation of the welding process.

He has studied at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad for B.Sc. and at Iran University of Science & Technology for M.Sc. education. Both Universities are among the high-ranking Iranian technical universities. 

He also has some great professional experiences in industrial companies in Iran. Meanwhile, he was working as a faculty member at a national university in Iran for 8 years before starting his Ph.D. at SJTU. He taught different courses for bachelor students at this university. He published more than 50 journal papers, 20 conference papers, and 4 books by now, one of which was published in the United States.

Dr. Elmi Hosseini was known as an Excellent International Student in SJTU each year while studying for a Ph.D. He performed successfully different industrial projects while working in his home country.

Dr. Elmi is very specialized in the Characterization methods such as SEM-EBSD, SEM-EDS, XRD, etc. Also, he majored in the Calculation of Phase Diagrams (CALPHAD) with Thermo-Calc, as well as the Knowledge of modern numerical techniques in materials science and engineering.

Altogether, he is pleased with his academic records, especially practical courses, laboratory skills, and teamwork activities.

• Welding (Technology, Metallurgy, and Simulation)
• Additive manufacturing
• Physical and Mechanical Properties of Alloys

• “In-situ amorphous/crystalline heterostructure enables high strength and ductility in laser powder bed fused AlMgErZr alloys via 316L functional alloying”, Materials Science and Engineering A, Submitted.
• Xiangxiang Zhang, Yu Wang, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Donglai Chen, Shasha He, Weimin Wu, Dingjian Peng, Hua Luo, Yanhu Wang, “Study on microstructure and mechanical properties of Ti-xCu alloys prepared by in-situ wire-powder synergistic arc additive manufacturing”, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Submitted.
• Chen Donglai; Wang Yanhu; Chen Xiaolin; Zhang Chao; Wu Weimin; Fang Tiehui; Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, "Study on mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of TC4-(Ti-xCu) functionally graded alloy fabricated by arc wire-powder synergistic additive manufacturing", JOM, Submitted.
• Lei Qin, Shengfeng Zhou, Jianbo Jin, Huan Yang, Kunmao Li, Cheng Deng, Yujie Yuan, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseinig, Lai-Chang Zhang, “Effect of molybdenum content on the microstructure and tribological properties of Ti-Nb-Cu alloys produced by LPBF additive manufacturing” Metals Advances 39 (2026) 13–25.
• Yue Sun, Yuanming Huo, Zhijun Wang, Zhiwei Li, Zhaozhao Wang, Xiaoguang Yue, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Anqi Jiang, Xinyu Wang, “High-throughput nanoindentation study on annealing-induced microstructural evolution and local creep behavior of NiAlCrFeMo high-entropy alloy”, Intermetallics 191 (2026) 109196.
• Mohaddeseh Tebianian, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Seyed Ali Mousavi Mohammadi, Mojtaba Farbakhti, Bagher Mohammad Sadeghi, Nazanin Sadat Razavi Jafari, Huo Yuan-ming, Ruifeng Li, “Mechanical Properties of Titanium Alloys Produced by Additive Manufacturing: A Review”, Metals and Materials International, (2025).
• Hao Chen, Yuanming Huo, Zhijun Wang, Zhenrong Yan, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Hongchao Ji, Wenhan Yu, Zhaozhao Wang, Zhiwei Li, Xiaoguang Yue, “An Unified Viscoplastic micro-damage Constitutive Model for NiAlCrFeMo High-Entropy Alloys at Elevated Temperatures Considering Triaxiality stress”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 1038 (2025) 182707.
• M. Farbakhti, S. R. Elmi Hosseini, S. A. Mousavi Mohammadi, “The effect of current intensity on liquid metal embrittlement in resistance spot welding of QP1180 steel”, Journal of Welding Science and Technology of Iran, Volume 11, Number 1, 2025.
• Yan Li, Qing Su, Guojun Sheng, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Bassam Edmond Badran, Ping Gong, Chenxing Xin, Huasheng Wang, “Recent advances in artificial-intelligence enhanced additive manufacturing of heat exchangers for thermal management: a review”, Materials & Design 256 (2025) 114339.
• Mojtaba Farbakhti, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Seyed Ali Mousavi Mohammadi, Sadaf Sadatabhari, Huo Yuan-ming, Ruifeng Li, “Similar and Dissimilar Rotary Friction Welding of Steels: A Review of Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Properties”, Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 36 (2025) 8777-8803.
• V. Foroughi, S. R. Elmi Hosseini, “A Critical Review on Dissimilar Welding of Stainless Steels To Titanium Alloys: Technology and Metallurgy”, International Journal of ISSI, Vol. 21 (2024), No. 2, pp. 93-117.
• Mingjun Yan, Ruifeng Li, Jiajunqi Guo, Bin Liu, Xiaoqiang Zhang, Yue Zhao, Taotao Li, Lei Qiao, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, "Microstructure and Hardness of Nickel-Based Coatings Prepared by Laser Additive Manufacturing on Water-Cooled Substrate: An Experimental and Numerical Study", Materials 2024, 17, 5692.
• Wenhan Yu, Yuanming Huo, Zhijun Wang, Zhenrong Yan, Tao He, Seyed Reza ElmiHosseini, Hongchao Ji, Hao Chen, "Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties of NiAlCrFeMo High Entropy Superalloy after Different Annealing Treatment", Intermetallics 175 (2024) 108494.
• Hao Chen, Yuanming Huo, Tao He, Zhenrong Yan, Zhiwei Li, Hongchao Ji, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Zhaozhao Wang, Zhiyuang Bian, Wenhan Yu, Zixin Zhou, "Establishing a unified viscoplastic constitutive equation for EA4T steel: Comparative analysis with Arrhenius model", International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Vol. 166, Nov. 2024,104835
• Yuanming Huo, Changyuan Jia, Tao He, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Wangqing Wu, Cunlong Huo, Baoyu Wang, "Corrigendum to ‘Numerical prediction of ductile damage evolution of 40CrNiMo railway axle steel during hot cross wedge rolling’", Materials Today Communications, Volume 34, March 2023, 105067.
• Mohaddeseh Tebianian, Sara Aghaie, Nazanin Sadat Razavi Jafari, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, António B. Pereira, Fábio A. O. Fernandes, Mojtaba Farbakhti, Chao Chen and Yuanming Huo, "A Review of the Metal Additive Manufacturing Processes", Materials 2023, 16, 7514.
• Xu Ren, Yuanming Huo, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Tao He, Zhenrong Yan, Fábio A.O. Fernandes, António B. Pereira, Hongchao Ji, Jie Bai, Zhiyuan Bian, Xiangyang Du, "A Multi-scale Modelling by Coupling Cellular Automata with Finite Element Method and Its Application on Cross-Wedge Rolling", Materials Today Communications, 2023, 106976.
• Huo Yuan-ming, Huo Cun-long, He Tao, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Chen Gang, Jia Chang-yuan, Liu Ke-ran, Wang Bao-yu, and Du Xiang-yang, "A High-Temperature Strain-Compensated Arrhenius-Type Constitutive Model and an Improved Avrami-Type Dynamic Recrystallization Model of 40CrNiMo", Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-023-08600-2.
• Xiangman Zhou, Jingping Qin, Zichuan Fu, Min Wang, Youlu Yuan, Junjian Fu, Haiou Zhang and Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, "An Innovative Finite Element Geometric Modeling of Single-Layer Multi-Bead WAAMed Part", Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 2023. DOI: 10.32604/cmes.2023.029249.
• Yuanming Huo, Wenhan Yu, Tao He, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Hongchao Ji, Jie Bai, Hao Chen, Zixin Zhou, "Numerical Prediction and Experimental Investigation of Ductile Damage During Cold Upsetting of TC16 Titanium Alloy for Manufacturing Fasteners", Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals (2023) Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12666-023-03019-8.
• DeShui Yu, Yan Zhang, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, JianPing Zhou, DaQian Sun, "Element diffusion and microstructure evolution at interface of stainless steel/Ti alloy joint by laser welding with AgCuTi filler metal", Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2023; 24: 6463-6472.
• Xu Ren, Yuan-Ming Huo, Tao He, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Zhi-Yuan Bian, Jie Bai, and Xiang-Yang Du, "Constitutive Model and Cellular Automaton Simulation of the Dynamic Recrystallization of Railway EA4T-Grade Steel", steel research int. 2023, 94, 2200699.
• Yuanming Huo, Cunlong Huo, Xu Ren, Tao He, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Baoyu Wang, Yongliang Cui, Changyuan Jia, Keran Liu, Xiangyang Du, "Numerical prediction of microstructure evolution of high-speed railway axle formed using hot cross wedge rolling", Materials Today Communications 35 (2023) 105985.
• Changyuan Jia, Yuanming Huo, Tao He, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Wangqing Wu, Cunlong Huo, Baoyu Wang, “Numerical prediction of ductile damage evolution of 40CrNiMo railway axle steel during hot cross wedge rolling”, Materials Today Communications 33 (2022) 104942.
• Hualong Huang, Taomei Zhang, Chao Chen, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Jiaqi Zhang and Kechao Zhou, “Anisotropy in the Tensile Properties of a Selective Laser Melted Ti-5Al-5Mo-5V-1Cr-1Fe Alloy during Aging Treatment”, Materials 2022, 15, 5493.
• Mang Ni, Chao Chen, Ruifeng Xu, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Ruidi Li, Xiaoyong Zhang, Kechao Zhou, "Microstructure and mechanical properties of additive manufactured Inconel 718 alloy strengthened by oxide dispersion with 0.3 wt% Sc addition", Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 918, 2022, 165763.
• Taomei Zhang, Hualong Huang, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Wei Chen, Feng Li, Chao Chen, Kechao Zhou, "Obtaining heterogeneous α laths in selective laser melted Ti–5Al–5Mo–5V–1Cr–1Fe alloy with high strength and ductility", Materials Science and Engineering: A, Vol. 835, 2022, 142624.
• Kaiyu Luo, Shanhui Li, Gang Xu, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Jinzhong Lu, "Hot corrosion behaviors of directed energy deposited Inconel 718/Haynes 25 functionally graded material at 700 °C and 900 °C", Corrosion Science, Vol. 197, 2022, 110040.
• Yiyou Wu, Taomei Zhang, Chao Chen, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Xiaoyong Zhang, Kechao Zhou, "Microstructure and mechanical property evolution of additive manufactured eutectic Al-2Fe alloy during solidification and aging", Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 897, 2022, 163243.
• Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Kai Feng, Pulin Nie, Ke Zhang, Jian Huang, Zhuguo Li, Hiroyuki Kokawa, Baochao Guo, Song Xue, “Interlayer thickening for development of laser-welded Ti-SS joint strength”, Optics and Laser Technology, Vol. 112, 2019, 379–394.
• Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Kai Feng, Pulin Nie, Ke Zhang, Jian Huang, Yuan Chen, Da Shu, Zhuguo Li, Baochao Guo, Song Xue, “Fracture surface characterization of laser welding processed Ti alloy to stainless steel joints”, Welding in the World, Vol. 62, Issue 5, 2018, 947–960.
• Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Kai Feng, Pulin Nie, Ke Zhang, Jian Huang, Zhuguo Li, Hiroyuki Kokawa, Baochao Guo, Song Xue, “Enhanced strength of 304 SS-Ti6Al4V laser-welded joints containing composite interlayers”, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 27, Issue 11, 2018, 6135–6148.
• Yuan Chen, Fenggui Lu, Ke Zhang, Pulin Nie, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Kai Feng, Zhuguo Li, Paul K. Chu, “Investigation of dendritic growth and liquation cracking in laser melting deposited Inconel 718 at different laser input angles”, Materials and Design, Vol. 105, 2016, 133–141.
• Yuan Chen, Fenggui Lu, Ke Zhang, Pulin Nie, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Kai Feng, Zhuguo Li, “Laser powder deposition of carbon nanotube reinforced nickel-based superalloy Inconel 718”, Carbon, Vol. 107, 2016, 361–370.
• Yuan Chen, Fenggui Lu, Ke Zhang, Pulin Nie, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Kai Feng, Zhuguo Li, “Dendritic microstructure and hot cracking of laser additive manufactured Inconel 718 under improved base cooling”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Vol. 670, 2016, 312–321.
• Yuan Chen, Ke Zhang, Jian Huang, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Zhuguo Li, “Characterization of heat affected zone liquation cracking in laser additive manufacturing of Inconel 718”, Materials and Design, Vol. 90, 2016, 586–594.
• Yanbing Guo, Zhuguo Li, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Min Wang, “Effect of chemical segregation on nanobainitic transformation in laser cladded coatings”,Materials and Design, Vol. 88, 2015, 781–789.
• Yanbing Guo, Kai Feng, Fenggui Lu, Ke Zhang, Zhuguo Li,Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Min Wan, “Effects of isothermal heat treatment on nanostructured bainite morphology and microstructures in laser cladded coatings”, Applied Surface Science Vol. 357, 2015, 309–316.
• W. Ren, F. Lu, R. Yang, X. Liu, Z. Li, S.R. Elmi Hosseini, “A comparative study on fiber laser and CO2 laser welding of Inconel 617”, Materials and Design, Vol. 76, 2015, 207–214.
• Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Ahad Zabett, Zhuguo Li, “Cooling Curve Analysis of Heat Treating Oils and Correlation with Hardness and Microstructure of a Low Carbon Steel”, Materials Performance and Characterization, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2014.
• Hamed Khosravi, Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Mohsen Mirzaee Sisan, Mohsen Askari Pakani, Zhuguo Li, “Modeling of Pack-Carburizing Route by General Factorial Design of Experiment”, International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT), Vol. 3, Issue 9, September 2014.
• S. Gholami Shiri, A. Sarani, S.R. Elmi Hosseini, G. Roudini, “Diffusion in FSW joints by inserting the metallic foils”, Journal of Materials Science & Technology, Vol. 29, No. 11, 2013, PP. 1091–1095.
• S.R. Elmi Hosseini, H. Khosravi, R. Sohrabi, Z. Hosseini, E. Zohour Karimi, M. Makarem, “Correlation between hardenability curves and microstructure of a cementation steel carburized in the presence of Na2CO3 as an energizer material”, ISIJ International, Vol. 53, No. 12, 2013, PP. 2213–2217.
• S.R. Elmi Hosseini, "Simulation of Case Depth of Cementation Steels According to Fick's Laws", Journal of Iron & Steel Research, International, Vol. 19, Issue 11, 2012, PP. 71–78.
• S.R. Elmi Hosseini, H. Arabi, "Change in mechanical properties by titanium addition in aged martensitic 18Ni-9Co-5Mo alloy", ISIJ International, Vol. 52, No.1, 2012, PP. 147–150.
• S.R. Elmi Hosseini, H. Arabi, "Study of mechanical behaviours and degassing of a high toughness steel during a double melting process", Journal of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tabriz, Vol. 40, No. 2, Autumn and Winter 2010, PP. 47–55 (ISC Cited).
• S.R. Elmi Hosseini, H. Arabi, "The effect of VAR process on the mechanical properties, the gas atoms and the inclusions content of 18Ni-9Co-5Mo alloy produced by VIM technique", Majlesi Journal of Materials Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 1, Spring 2010, PP. 11–20 (indexed in EBSCO and ISC).
• S.R. Elmi Hosseini, H. Khosravi, E. Ghaderi, "Comparison between the effect of excess air and the activator material on the hardenability of DIN 18CrNi8 steel in solid carburizing process", Majlesi Journal of Materials Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter 2010, PP. 49–57 (indexed in EBSCO and ISC).
• S.R. Elmi Hosseini, H. Khosravi, "The effect of sodium carbonate content as energizer material on the case depth of 1.5920 low carbon steel", Majlesi Journal of Materials Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 3, Autumn 2009, PP. 51–58 (indexed in EBSCO and ISC).
• S.R. Elmi Hosseini, H. Arabi, H. Razavizadeh, “Improvement in mechanical properties of C300 maraging steel by application of VAR process”, Vacuum, Vol. 82, 2008, PP. 521–528.
• S.R. Elmi Hosseini, H. Arabi, H. Razavizadeh, “A study on production of high performance alloys with vacuum arc remelting method”, Journal of Metallurgical Engineering, Iran, Vol. 9, No. 24, 2006.

• “The recognition, selection & application of materials”; 3rd Ed., Jahan Jam-e-Jam, Iran, 2014 (800 Pages).
• “English for Materials Science and Engineering”, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran, 2022.
• “Engineering materials, properties and applications of metals and alloys”, Iran University Press, Iran, 2023.
• “Metallurgy of steel for bladesmiths & others who heat treat and forge steel”, Under Preparation.
• Seyed Reza Elmi Hosseini, Fábio A.O. Fernandes, António B. Pereira, Zhuguo Li, "Welding of Dissimilar Materials in Aerospace Systems", Materials, Structures and Manufacturing for Aircraft, Springer, 2022.
• S.R. Elmi Hosseini, Zhuguo Li, “Pack Carburizing: Characteristics, Microstructure, and Modeling”, Encyclopedia of Iron, Steel, and Their Alloys, G.E. Totten, Rafael Colás, Editors, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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