Dr. Ing. Majid Farajian

Dr.-Ing.Majid Farajian, born in 1976, received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic, Iran, and his MSc in Mechanics of Materials from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2011, he received his PhD from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Braunschweig, Germany, at the Institute of Joining and Welding IFS. After two years of postdoctoral work at IFS, he continued his work in the field of fatigue and residual stresses at the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM in Freiburg, Germany, and headed the "Fatigue" group at Fraunhofer IWM until 2020. Since September 2020, he has been a member of staff at GSI SLV in Duisburg and heads the Design and Construction department.