Sal Nimer

Dr. Sal Nimer is an assistant program manager for Science of Extreme and Multifunctional Materials in APL’s Research and Exploratory Development Mission Area, supporting a broad portfolio of materials research projects ranging from materials for expeditionary missions to artificial-intelligence-enabled materials discovery. He has a background in solid mechanics, materials characterization, advanced manufacturing, autonomous experimentation, and materials discovery. Dr. Nimer’s expertise includes developing and validating custom experimental approaches to accelerate alloy and process development cycles, as well as understanding process–structure–property relationships in advanced manufacturing methods such as additive manufacturing, castings, forgings, friction stir welding, and spark plasma sintering.