Dr. Hani E. Naguib is a Professor at the University of Toronto, and the founding director of the Toronto Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and the Smart Materials and Structures Group. His major expertise is in manufacturing of smart and adaptive material systems including stimuli responsive materials, metamaterials, and biomaterials. Naguib is the recipient of many honors and awards such as the Canada Research Chair and the Premier’s Early Research Award of Ontario. He is a Professional Engineer in Canada, a Chartered Engineer in U.K. Naguib is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining IOM3, Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME, Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics SPIE, Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers SPE. He is the associate editor for the journal of Smart Materials and Structures, and the journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures and SPE Polymers. He has been serving on the technical divisions board of directors for various professional institutes and societies. Naguib is actively involved in collaborative research projects with academic institutions, hospitals and industrial partners in Canada and worldwide. 

Research Team: 20+ trainees
Facilities: Materials and composites manufacturing, prototyping and characterization labs