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
- Moradi, H.,Hourani, A.,Concilia, G.,Khoshmanesh, F.,Nezami, F.,Needham, S.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2023). Recent developments in modeling, imaging, and monitoring of cardiovascular diseases using machine learning In: Biophysical Reviews, 15, 19 - 33
- Chandra Sekar, N.,Aguilera Suarez, S.,Nguyen, N.,Lai, A.,Thurgood, P.,Zhou, Y.,Chheang, C.,Needham, S.,Pirogova, E.,Peter, K.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Baratchi, S. (2023). Studying the Synergistic Effect of Substrate Stiffness and Cyclic Stretch Level on Endothelial Cells Using an Elastomeric Cell Culture Chamber In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15, 4863 - 4872
- Thurgood, P.,Needham, S.,Pirogova, E.,Peter, K.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2023). Dynamic Vortex Generation, Pulsed Injection, and Rapid Mixing of Blood Samples in Microfluidics Using the Tube Oscillation Mechanism In: Analytical Chemistry, 95, 3089 - 3097
- Hourani, T.,Perez-Gonzalez, A.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Luwor, R.,Achuthan, A.,Baratchi, S.,O'Brien-Simpson, N.,Hourani, A. (2023). Label-free macrophage phenotype classification using machine learning methods In: Scientific Reports, 13, 1 - 14
- Zizhou, R.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Wang, X.,Houshyar, S. (2023). Fabrication of Nanocomposites with High Elasticity and Strength for the Load-Bearing Layer of Small-Diameter Vascular Grafts.pdf In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15, 35411 - 35421
- Hawke, A.,Concilia, G.,Thurgood, P.,Ahnood, A.,Baratchi, S.,Khoshmanesh, K. (2023). A 3D printed flow sensor for microfluidic applications In: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 362, 1 - 8
- 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
- Sutterby, E.,Chheang, C.,Thurgood, P.,Khoshmanesh, K.,Baratchi, S.,Pirogova, E. (2022). Investigating the effects of low intensity visible light on human keratinocytes using a customized LED exposure system In: Scientific Reports, 12, 1 - 11
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.
- Microfluidics to explore the uptake of nanoparticles by endothelial cells. Funded by: ARC-Discovery Projects from (2024 to 2026)
- A Bioengineered Model of Calcific Aortic Valve Disease. Funded by: NHMRC-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)