Behnam Pourdeyhimi, PhD

Associate Dean for Industry Research and Extension
William A. Klopman Distinguished Professor, Executive Director, The Nonwovens Institute

Dr. Pourdeyhimi Holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, UK. He is The William A. Klopman Distinguished Chaired Professor of Materials in the College of Textiles at North Carolina State University. He is also a Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is currently serving as the Associate Dean for Industry Research and Extension in the College of Textiles and is also the Founding Executive Director of the Nonwovens Institute. Prior to joining NC State, he was a professor at the School of Textiles and Fiber Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, he served for eleven years on the faculty in Textiles; and Materials & Nuclear Engineering at the University of Maryland. He spent two years at Cornell as a research scientist studying biomaterials. He is the recipient of the 1994-1995 Distinguished Achievement Award by the Fiber Society, The 2007 TAPPI Technical Achievement and Hollingsworth award and the 2008 INDA Lifetime Technical Achievement Award. He has served as the President of the Fiber Society and has also been elected as the Fellow of the Textile Institute in United
Kingdom.

Dr. Pourdeyhimi's research interests are in the area of nonwovens, responsive
fibrous systems, filtration, computational modeling, materials, failure
mechanisms, software algorithms, optics and image analysis. He has published
several books and monographs, has authored or co-authored over 200 refereed
publications, has more than 30 patents and has made over two hundred
presentations in his areas of interest.

Modeling Filtration Performance: Role of Structure