STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Khashayar Khoshmanesh
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399252851
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
- Sutterby, E.,Thurgood, P.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Pirogova, E. (2022). Evaluation of in vitro human skin models for studying effects of external stressors and stimuli and developing treatment modalities In: View, 3, 1 - 19
- Concilia, G.,Lai, A.,Thurgood, P.,Pirogova, E.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2022). Investigating the mechanotransduction of transient shear stress mediated by Piezo1 ion channel using a 3D printed dynamic gravity pump In: Lab on a Chip, 22, 262 - 271
- Zhang, B.,Yin, P.,Hu, Y.,Szydzik, C.,Khan, M.,Xu, K.,Thurgood, P.,Mahmood, N.,Dekiwadia, C.,Afrin, S.,Yang, Y.,Ma, Q.,McConville, C.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Mitchell, A.,Hu, B.,Baratchi, S.,Ou, J. (2022). Highly accurate and label-free discrimination of single cancer cell using a plasmonic oxide-based nanoprobe In: Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 198, 1 - 10
- Mayyas, M.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Kumar, P.,Mousavi, M., et al, . (2022). Gallium-Based Liquid Metal Reaction Media for Interfacial Precipitation of Bismuth Nanomaterials with Controlled Phases and Morphologies In: Advanced Functional Materials, 32, 1 - 13
- Thurgood, P.,Chheang, C.,Needham, S.,Pirogova, E.,Peter, K.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2022). Generation of dynamic vortices in a microfluidic system incorporating stenosis barrier by tube oscillation In: Lab on a Chip, 22, 1917 - 1928
- Tang, J.,Kumar, P.,Scott, J.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Daeneke, T., et al, . (2022). Low Temperature Nano Mechano-electrocatalytic CH4Conversion In: ACS Nano, 16, 8684 - 8693
- Lai, A.,Thurgood, P.,Cox, C.,Chheang, C.,Peter, K.,Jaworowski, A.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Baratchi, S. (2022). Piezo1 Response to Shear Stress Is Controlled by the Components of the Extracellular Matrix In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 14, 40559 - 40568
- Cole, T.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Tang, S. (2021). Liquid Metal Enabled Biodevices In: Advanced Intelligent Systems, 3, 1 - 18
- Aguilera Suarez, S.,Chandra Sekar, N.,Nguyen, T.,Lai, A.,Thurgood, P.,Zhou, Y.,Needham, S.,Pirogova, E.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Baratchi, S. (2021). Studying the Mechanobiology of Aortic Endothelial Cells Under Cyclic Stretch Using a Modular 3D Printed System In: Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 9, 1 - 8
- Han, J.,Mayyas, M.,Tang, J.,Khoshmanesh, K., et al, . (2021). Liquid metal enabled continuous flow reactor: A proof-of-concept In: Matter, 4, 4022 - 4041
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
12 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions8 PhD Current Supervisions
Microfluidics, Lab-on-a-Chip, Dielectrophoresis, Manipulation of cells and micro-particles, Hydrodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Liquid metal enabled actuators.
- A Bioengineered Model of Calcific Aortic Valve Disease. Funded by: National Health and Medical Research Council Ideas Grants from (2023 to 2026)
- 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 2022)
- Harnessing properties of liquid metals for future devices. Funded by: 010-ARC Discovery Projects 2017 from (2017 to 2021)
- Analysing cell-cell communication mechanisms using microfluidic platforms. Funded by: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher from (2012 to 2015)