STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Khashayar Khoshmanesh
Position:
Discipline Leader
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
Phone:
99252851
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
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.,Alves De Castro, I.,Kuppe, P.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Bhargava, S.,Kalantar Zadeh, K. (2019). Atomically thin two-dimensional metal oxide nanosheets and their heterostructures for energy storage In: Energy Storage Materials, 16, 455 - 480
- Nguyen, T.,Thurgood, P.,Arash, A.,Pirogova, E.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2019). Inertial Microfluidics with Integrated Vortex Generators Using Liquid Metal Droplets as Fugitive Ink In: Advanced Functional Materials, , 1 - 10
- Uharek, S.,Baratchi, S.,Zhu, J.,Alshehri, M.,Mitchell, A.,Rebner, K.,Karnutsch, C.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2019). Water jacket systems for temperature control of petri dish cell culture chambers In: Applied Sciences, 9, 1 - 18
- Tovar Lopez, F.,Thurgood, P.,Gilliam, C.,Nguyen, N.,Pirogova, E.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Baratchi, S. (2019). A microfluidic system for studying the effects of disturbed flow on endothelial cells In: Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 7, 1 - 7
- Raju, R.,Hohn, H.,Karnutsch, C.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Bryant, G. (2019). Measuring volume kinetics of human monocytes in response to cryoprotectants using microfluidic technologies In: Applied Physics Letters, 114, 1 - 4
- Mohammed, M.,Thurgood, P.,Gilliam, C.,Nguyen, N.,Pirogova, E.,Peter, K.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Baratchi, S. (2019). Studying the Response of Aortic Endothelial Cells under Pulsatile Flow Using a Compact Microfluidic System In: Analytical Chemistry, 91, 12077 - 12084
- Thurgood, P.,Baratchi, S.,Arash, A.,Pirogova, E.,Jex, A.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2019). Asynchronous generation of oil droplets using a microfluidic flow focusing system In: Scientific Reports, 9, 1 - 11
- 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
- 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)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
9 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions9 PhD Current Supervisions and 2 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-Chip, Dielectrophoresis, Manipulation of cells and micro-particles, Hydrodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Liquid metal enabled actuators.