STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Khashayar Khoshmanesh
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Campus:
City Campus
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Research supervision
Research overview
Research interests
My research interests include: Microfluidics, Lab on a Chip, Dielectrophoresis, Hydrodynamics, Liquid Metal Enabled Actuators, and Computational Fluid Dynamics, as summarised below:
- Development of microfluidic systems for biomedical and engineering applications;
- Separation, immobilisation, chemical stimulation and microscopic imaging of cells and multi-cellular organisms under the effect of electrical and hydrodynamic forces;
- Development of liquid metal enabled actuators using continuous electrowetting;
- Modelling of fluidic/thermal systems using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Awards
- 2012-2015 Australian Research Council-Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2011 Australia to USA Fellowship, Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory, Stanford University, USA
- 2010 Australian Endeavour Fellowship, June-November 2010, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- 2007-2010 PhD Scholarship, Centre for Intelligent Systems Research, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Australia
- 2001 Award for conducting the Best Master Degree Thesis in Mechanical Engineering, Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers, Tehran, Iran
Reviewer of scientific journals
- Lab on a Chip
- Sensors and Actuators-B
- Electrophoresis
- Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
- Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
Media experience
- Nature Research Highlights
Micro-pump with no moving parts - PNAS First Look Blog
Liquid metal powers a microfluidic pump - RMIT NEWS
- Australian Research Council Research Fellow under Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) scheme
- Supervising post-graduate students
- Presenting ’Paper Writing Workshops’ for post-graduate students
- PhD (Biomechanical Engineering), 2010, Deakin University, Waurn Ponds, Australia
- Master of Science (Mechanical Engineering), 2000, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Bachelor of Science (Mechanical Engineering), 1997, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
- Nov 2005-Dec 2006: Chief Researcher, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, “Thermal Analysis of Industrial Glass Melting Furnaces for Energy Saving”;
- Sep 2004-Sep 2005: Senior Designer, Mangan Industrial Group, Tehran, Iran, “Design of 1.5 MW Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines”;
- Sep 2003-Sep 2004: Designer, Mangan Industrial Group, Tehran, Iran, “Reduction of Wind-induced Vibrations of Khangiran Gas Refinery Steel Stacks”;
- Aug 2001-Sep 2003: Head of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer Department, Mangan Industrial Group, Tehran, Iran
- Mahmood, N.,Khan, H.,Tran, K.,Kuppe, P.,Zavabeti, A.,Atkin, P.,Ghasemian, M.,Yang, J.,Xu, C.,Abbas, S.,Spencer, M.,Ou, J.,Khoshmanesh, K.,McConville, C.,Li, Y.,Kalantar Zadeh, K. (2021). (In Press) Maximum piezoelectricity in a few unit-cell thick planar ZnO – A liquid metal-based synthesis approach In: Materials Today, , 1 - 9
- Baratchi, S.,Zaldivia, M.,Wallert, M.,Loseff-Silver, J.,Al-Aryahi, S.,Thurgood, P.,Vahidi, P.,Jaworowski, A.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Karlheinz, P., et al, . (2020). TAVI Represents an Anti-Inflammatory Therapy via Reduction of Shear Stress Induced, Piezo-1-Mediated Monocyte Activation In: Circulation, 142, 1 - 34
- Sutterby, E.,Thurgood, P.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Pirogova, E. (2020). Microfluidic Skin-on-a-Chip Models: Toward Biomimetic Artificial Skin In: Small, 16, 1 - 17
- Yi, P.,Thurgood, P.,Nguyen, N.,Abdelwahab, H.,Petersen, P.,Gilliam, C.,Ghorbani, K.,Pirogova, E.,Tang, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2020). Oscillation and self-propulsion of Leidenfrost droplets enclosed in cylindrical cavities In: Soft Matter, 16, 8854 - 8860
- Thurgood, P.,Aguilera Suarez, S.,Pirogova, E.,Jex, A.,Peter, K.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2020). Tunable Harmonic Flow Patterns in Microfluidic Systems through Simple Tube Oscillation In: Small, 16, 1 - 10
- Ruvalcaba Cardenas, A.,Ramirez Gomez, R.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Tovar Lopez, F. (2020). Magnetic actuation and deformation of a soft shuttle In: Biomicrofluidics, 14, 1 - 10
- Messalea, K.,Zavabeti, A.,Mohiuddin, M.,Syed, N.,Jannat, A.,Atkin, P.,Ahmed, T.,Walia, S.,McConville, C.,Kalantar Zadeh, K.,Mahmood, N.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Daeneke, T. (2020). Two-Step Synthesis of Large-Area 2D Bi2S3 Nanosheets Featuring High In-Plane Anisotropy In: Advanced Materials Interfaces, 7, 1 - 8
- Thurgood, P.,Aguilera Suarez, S.,Chen, S.,Gilliam, C.,Pirogova, E.,Jex, A.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2019). Self-sufficient, low-cost microfluidic pumps utilising reinforced balloons In: Lab on a Chip, 19, 2885 - 2896
- Ruvalcaba Cardenas, A.,Thurgood, P.,Chen, S.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Tovar Lopez, F. (2019). Droplet on Soft Shuttle: Electrowetting-on-Dielectric Actuation of Small Droplets In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11, 39283 - 39291
- Zhu, J.,Aguilera Suarez, S.,Thurgood, P.,Nguyen, N.,Mohammed, M.,Abdelwahab, H.,Needham, S.,Pirogova, E.,Ghorbani, K.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2019). Reconfigurable, Self-Sufficient Convective Heat Exchanger for Temperature Control of Microfluidic Systems In: Analytical Chemistry, 91, 15784 - 15790
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions9 PhD Current Supervisions
Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-Chip, Dielectrophoresis, Manipulation of cells and micro-particles, Hydrodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Liquid metal enabled actuators.
- Microfluidic platforms for studying foam cell formation in vessels. Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grants 2019 from (2021 to 2024)
- Chemosensation in Ascaris infection (administered by University of Melbourne). Funded by: ARC Discovery Project via Other University from (2018 to 2020)
- Harnessing properties of liquid metals for future devices. Funded by: 010-ARC Discovery Projects 2017 from (2017 to 2020)
- Analysing cell-cell communication mechanisms using microfluidic platforms. Funded by: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher from (2012 to 2015)