Maziar Montazerian
Maziar Montazerian, Ph.D., is an assistant research professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MatSE) at Penn State and serves as managing director of the Center for Glass Research. He is the recipient of the Tadashi Kokubo Award from the American Ceramic Society and the Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research at Penn State.
Montazerian’s research focuses on bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, with particular emphasis on understanding how composition and structural modifications influence the properties. His work advances fundamental knowledge of structure–property relationships while developing methodologies for the design, evaluation, and performance optimization of bioactive glasses, dental glass-ceramics, and glassy materials. His research has been published in leading journals, including Progress in Materials Science, Acta Biomaterialia, and the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.
Before joining Penn State, he served as a visiting professor at the Northeast Laboratory for the Evaluation and Development of Biomaterials at the Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil. He currently serves as associate editor of both the Journal of the American Ceramic Society and the International Journal of Applied Glass Science. Montazerian is a member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Tissue Engineering.
- F. Baino, M. Montazerian, Porous Bioceramics for Biomedical Applications, 1st Edition; Elsevier, 2026.
- G.R.C. Cerqueira, J.F.B. Rodrigues, A. Shearer, J.F. Schneider, M.V.O. Dantas, F.C. Sampaio, P.L. Nogueira, R.D. Castro, J.C. Mauro, M.V.L. Fook, Maziar Montazerian, Cytocompatible, radiopaque, and antibacterial bismuth‐doped gel‐derived 58S bioactive glasses, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2025, 108(7), e20516.
- A. Shearer, A.M. Bossen, B. Kheilnezhad, J. Du, F. Baino, J.C. Mauro, M. Montazerian, Modeling the Structural and Functional Properties of Bioactive Glasses: Atomic to Macro-Scale Perspectives, Acta Biomaterialia, 2025, 202, 45–65.
- H. Kim, M. Montazerian, N. Clark, A. Schöch, T. Senti, A. Frey, M. Rampf, J.C. Mauro, Machine learning‐based microstructure identification in lithium silicate dental glass‒ceramics, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 2025, e70089.
- M. Montazerian, F. Baino, E. Fiume, C. Migneco, A. Alaghmandfard, O. Sedighi, A.V. DeCeanne, C.J. Wilkinson, J.C. Mauro, Glass-ceramics in dentistry: Fundamentals, technologies, experimental techniques, applications, and open issues, Progress in Materials Science, 2023, 132, 101023.
- M. Montazerian, M. Mancini, J.C. Mauro, Advanced tools for unveiling nucleation in nanostructured glass-ceramics, Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences, 2022, 48(3), 411–439.
- M. Montazerian, E.D. Zanotto, J.C. Mauro, Model-driven design of bioactive glasses: from molecular dynamics through machine learning, International Materials Reviews, 2020, 65(5), 297–321.
- M. Montazerian, B. EftekhariYekta, V.K. Marghussian, C.F. Bellani, R.L. Siqueira, E.D. Zanotto, Bioactivity and cell proliferation in radiopaque gel-derived CaO−P2O5−SiO2−ZrO2 glass and glass-ceramic powders, Materials Science and Engineering C: Materials for Biological Applications, 2015, 55, 436-447.
- M. Montazerian, J.F. Schneider, B. EftekhariYekta, V.K. Marghussian, A.M. Rodrigues, E.D. Zanotto, Sol-gel synthesis, structure, sintering and properties of bioactive and inert nano-apatite−zirconia glass-ceramics, Ceramics International, 2015, 41, 11024-11045.
- Tadashi Kokubo Award from the American Ceramic Society
- Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award at Penn State
- Ph.D. scholarship from The World Academy of Science (TWAS)
- Post-doctoral fellowship from the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)