Syed Idrees Afzal Jalali

I am an experimental mechanician and materials scientist focused on structural reliability under extreme thermal,
mechanical, and environmental conditions. My group integrates high-temperature micromechanics, in-situ multimodal
testing, accelerated protocols, and high-throughput measurements to rapidly qualify alloys, ceramics, composites, and
barrier systems. 

Education History

• Ph.D, Materials Engineering, IISC Bangalore

Work Experience

Assistant Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Publications

[21] Syed I.A. Jalali and Kevin Hemker, Measuring the mechanical response of materials at extreme temperatures
with localized heating, Accepted Dec. 2025: Annual Reviews of Materials Research
[20] Hailong Huang, Prashant Singh, Duane Johnson, Dishant Beniwal, Pratik Ray, Gaoyuan Ouyang, Luke
Gaydos, Trevor Riedemann, Tirthesh Ingale, Vishal Soni,Rajarshi Banerjee, Thomas Scharf, Ping Lu, Frank
DelRio, Andrew Kustas, John Sharon , Ryan Deacon , Syed I.A. Jalali, Michael Patullo, Sharon Park ,
Kevin Hemker, Ryan Ott, Achieving High Tensile Strength and Ductility in Refractory Alloys by Tuning
Electronic Structure, Nature Materials, Accepted, Dec 2025.
[19] Syed I.A. Jalali , Carolina Frey, Kaitlyn M. Mullin, Leah H. Mills, Velat Kilic, Colin Goodmane, Mark
Foster, Tresa M. Pollock, Kevin J. Hemker, The Thermal and Mechanical Response of Refractory Alloys at
Ultrahigh Temperatures, Acta Materielia, Accepted, Dec 2025.
[18] Kaitlyn M. Mullin, Carolina Frey, Syed I.A. Jalali, Michael Patullo, Collin S. Holgate, Kevin J. Hemker,
Tresa M. Pollock, Solidification behavior and cracking mechanisms of Ru-containing BCC-B2, Scripta Materialia.
Volume 267, Article number: 116731, Oct. 2025.
[17] Syed I. A. Jalali, Michael S. Patullo, Noah Philips, Kevin J. Hemker, Capturing the ultrahigh temperature
response of materials with sub-scale tensile testing, Materials Today, Volume 80, pp. 87-100, Nov. 2024.
[16] Syed I. A. Jalali, Alejandro F. Manch´on-Gord´on, Ricardo Chacartegui, Pedro E. S´anchez Jim´enez, Javier
S. Bl´azquez, Antonio Perej´on, Rishi Raj, Luis A. P´erez-Maqueda, Touch-free reactive flash sintering of dense
strontium hexaferrite permanent magnet, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Volume 106, Issue 12,
pp.7202-7208, Dec. 2023.
[15] Emmanuel Bamidele, Syed I.A. Jalali, Alan Weimer and Rishi Raj, Flash sintering of tungsten at room temperature
in < 1 min by injection of electrical currents at different rates, Journal of the American Ceramic Society,
Volume 107,Issue 2, pp. 817-829, Nov. 2023.
[14] Susmita Roy, Feng Ye, Zachary Morgan, Syed I. A. Jalali, Yu Zhang, Gang Cao, Nobu-Hisa Kaneko,
Martin Greven, Rishi Raj, Dmitry Reznik, Structural changes induced by electric currents in a single crystal
of Pr2CuO4, Physical Review Materials, Volume 7, Issue 8, Article Number: 083803, August 2023.
[13] S. Jo, Syed I. A. Jalali, D. Sebold, Olivier G., and Rishi Raj, Flash in argon atmosphere yields electronically
conducting yttria stabilized zirconia at ambient temperature, Journal of the American Ceramic Society,
Volume 106, Issue 9, pp. 5133-5139, May 2023.
[12] Syed I. A. Jalali, Sanjit Bhowmick, V. Jayaram, & P.Kumar, Sample Size Effect on Creep in Bending: An
Interplay between Strain Gradient and Surface Proximity Effects, Journal of Material Research, Volume 38,
pp. 3059–3077, June 2023.
[11] Syed I. A. Jalali, Mainak Sen and Dipankar Banerjee, Strain mapping in fine scale multivariant α structures
in titanium alloys, Materials Characterization 2022, Volume 193, Article number: 112260, Nov. 2022.
[10] Syed I. A. Jalali and Rishi Raj, Touch Free Flash Sintering with Magnetic Induction within a Reactor
Activated by the Usual Flash Method, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Volume 105,Issue 11,
pp.6517-6522, June 2022.
[9] Landen Cross, Rishi Raj, Syed I. A. Jalali On the Catalytic Effect of Zirconia on Flash Sintering of Alumina,
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Volume 105, Issue 6, pp. 3746-3752, Feb. 2022.
[8] Syed I. A. Jalali and Rishi Raj, New flash sintering process advances method toward commercialization,
Bulletin of The American Ceramic Society , Volume 101, Issue 3, pp. 18, April 2022.
[7] Syed I. A. Jalali and Rishi Raj, Reactive flash sintering in a bilayer of zirconia and lanthana: Measurement
of the diffusion coefficient in real time,Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Volume 106, Issue 2, pp.
867-877, Sept. 2022.
[6] Syed I. A. Jalali, P.Kumar & V. Jayaram,Creep Micromechanics at Meso-Length Scale,
Acta Materelia, Volume 205, Article number: 116535, Feb. 2021.
[5] Syed I. A. Jalali, P.Kumar & V. Jayaram, Customized High-Temperature Bending with DIC for High-
Throughput Determination of Creep Parameters: Technique, Instrumentation, and Optimization, Journal of Metals,
Volume 72, Volume 35, pp. 4522–4538, Nov. 2020.
[4] Syed I. A. Jalali, P.Kumar & V. Jayaram,Microstructural Equivalency between Bending and Uniaxial Creep
Scripta Materialia, Volume 186, pp. 99-103, Sept. 2020.
[3] Syed I. A. Jalali, P.Kumar & V. Jayaram,High Throughput Determination of Creep Parameters Using Cantilever
Bending: Part II – Primary and Steady-State through Uniaxial Equivalency, Journal of Material Research,
Volume 35, Issue 4, pp. 362-371, Feb. 2020.
[2] Syed I. A. Jalali, P.Kumar & V. Jayaram,High Throughput Determination of Creep Parameters Using
Cantilever Bending: Part I – Steady-State, Journal of Material Research, Volume 35, Issue 4, pp. 353-361
Feb. 2020.
[1] Syed I. A. Jalali, P.Kumar & V. Jayaram,Creep of Metallic Materials in Bending, Journal of Metals, Volume
71, Issue 10, pp. 3565–3583, Aug. 2019.