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Group leader

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MQ early career felowship

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Dr. Mohsen Asadnia is a senior lecturer, ARC DECRA fellow and group leader at the School of Engineering , Macquarie University.  He is also MRes Director & Deputy Associate Dean, HDR, at Faculty of Science & Engineering.
He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU)-Singapore, and undertook his postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SMART center) and the University of Western Australia (UWA).  His research interest are 

1) Robotics, Robotic Surgery, Control and Automation
2) Auditory and vestibular systems 
2) MEMS/ NEMS bio-inspired sensory systems:  flow/pressure/tactile sensors, artificial  hair cells of the vertebrate inner ear
3) Chemical sensors: water contamination detection, explosive gas detectors
4) Microfluidic devices: cell sorting, particle separation  3D printing: Micro-mixers, sensors

 Dr Christopher Pastras is an early career researcher and 2022 Macquarie University Research Fellow. His main area of research is inner ear physiology and mechanics, with a particular focus on the mammalian vestibular system and Meniere’s disease. His work involves specialized electrophysiological and mechanical recordings from the inner ear of anaesthetized rodents, as well as various experimental manipulations, mathematical modelling, and morphological techniques. 
 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher-Pastras
‪https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QXI5vWAAAAAJ
https://gprwmf.org.au/awardees/dr-christopher-pastras/

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Lecturer

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Andrew Belford  is a lecturer and Research Associate at Macquarie University in the School of Engineering. He received his Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering degree from the University of Adelaide in 1985, and has worked in industrial automation and process control for more than 30 years. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a Fellow of Engineers Australia, and a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng). He is currently working with the Mechatronics Group at Macquarie. His research interests include robust and adaptable automated systems, and instrumentation and measurement for MEMs devices. He is currently undertaking a PhD in structural health monitor of ships, using sensors and machine learning.


Postdoctoral Associate

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Dr Salman Jalalifar obtained his PhD in Maritime Engineering from Australian Maritime College, the University of Tasmania. His PhD research focuses on the operational management of the fast pyrolysis process using numerical modeling. Besides several years in the energy-related industry, he has a scholarly track record in heat transfer, energy conversion, fluid mechanics, numerical modelings, and multi-phase flow dynamics. Dr Jalalifar is currently working on designing and fabricating a smart device for a drowning detection and tracking system that would continuously monitor the wearer’s swimming pattern, depth, and heartbeat and send a signal to emergency services and lifeguards in case of a potential drowning event.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Salman-Jalalifar
https://www.linkedin.com/in/salman-jalalifar-89542a52/
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=yu53JFQAAAAJ

Research Engineer

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​Peter Phuong Phan is an Electronics Engineer with passion in designing IoT systems. His main research is about embedded systems and wireless communication systems (LoRa, WiFi, BLE). His completed project include:
1) Embedded system for complex traffic light (train, bus, car and pedestrian) 
2) Embedded system to simulate musical instruments and precise motor controller for ventilator using Matlab
3) Automatic line follower and maze solver robot using C language
4) Automatic tennis ball collector robot
(https://github.com/Peter-Electronic)

Graduate Students

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Sajad A. Moshizi graduated from Amirkabir University of Technology, majoring in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in fluid dynamics. His PhD research aims to develop a biomimetic vestibular system to restore balance of body. Since vestibular disorders afflict 1 in 3 people throughout their lives, his project seeks to help elderlies to decrease the consequences of vestibular dysfunction, including chronic impairment of balance, posture, and/or gaze stability. He has fabricated several novel hair cell sensory systems using advanced materials and nanotechnology with high sensitivity, very low-frequency detection, and low response time. He has modeled a bioinspired vestibular system equipped with the hair cell sensor using 3D printing technology. This research paves the way for developing the next generation of vestibular implants, with the ultimate goal of restoring balance dysfunction. The research findings have been published in prestigious journals such as Nano-Micro Letters, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Advanced Materials Technologies.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lfD7aScAAAAJ&hl=en

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Mojtaba Abdollahzadeh graduated in Mechanical Engineering with a Bachelor degree from Shiraz University and a Master degree from Sharif University of Technology. His research interests are in the field of biomimetic sensors and microfluidics. His PhD research concerns the development of a chemical wearable sensor that can detect a wide range of molecules and biomarkers.

​Hadi Ahmadi received his master degree in Mechanical Engineering-Energy Conversion branch from Semnan University. Besides spending several years in automotive industry, he has academic background in the field of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, turbulence modelling and CFD. His PhD research focuses on the numerical and experimental investigation of cochlea and basilar membrane in mammalian auditory system.

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Masoud Mohseni Dargah is a joint PhD candidate in the Cotutelle PhD program between Macquarie University and Tarbiat Modares University, Iran. He obtained his BSc in laboratory medicine and worked as a medical technologist in clinical laboratories. Masoud also pursued his master's degree in biological chemistry. His research interests include cancer pathobiology, nanomedicine, and medical diagnostics. His PhD project is on designing medical diagnostic devices and microfluidics.

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Sujan Shrestha received his Bachelor degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 2010. Author persuaded his Master study in Information and Communication Engineering from Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea, in 2017. He has worked as an Engineer in companies as such Huawei, Broadcasting firms. His research interest includes antenna design and wave propagation, rain attenuation, microwave and satellite communication. His PhD project is focused on development of novel Antennas for Biomedical applications.

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Huan Xiao received her master degree from Nanjing Tech University. Her current research interests are focus on innovative metal-organic framework-based membrane materials for environmental remediation.

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Ivan Bakhshayeshi is an HDR student at the school of engineering, Macquarie University. He is also a member of the Data Analytics Lab (data-science-group.github.io) and Engineering Australia. His research interests are in the areas of data science and artificial intelligence. Ivan has conducted several industrial and academic projects related to data analytics, computer vision, GIS.
He is currently working on the project titled: “AI-enabled livestock recognition in transport”, funded by the industry (ITIC-Systems, Education, and Research). This study aims to assist the agriculture sector with developing a computer vision model to identify farm animals based on their visual biometrics.


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Rockson Kwesi Tonnah graduated from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana) and Hanbat National University (South Korea) with a B.Sc. Chemical Engineering and MEng in Chemical and Biological Engineering, respectively.
For his master’s program, Rockson worked on the functionalization of silicon dielectric materials to modulate the interfacial Chemistry to enhance charge mobility and gold electrodes to optimize the charge injection and extraction characteristics to improve the performance of organic field-effect transistors for the next-generation flexible electronics.
Rockson is currently working on chemical sensors and innovative metal-organic framework-based membrane materials for ion sensing and extraction. Rockson enjoys reading about socioeconomics, geopolitics, and philosophical thought experiments during his spare time.
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LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/in/tonnah-rockson-172920a3
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rockson-Tonnah

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Maryam Shahriari received her bachelor’s degree in Medical Laboratory Science from Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. She worked as a Medical Laboratory Scientist in accredited Laboratories in Iran. Meanwhile, she focused on treating Acute Myeloid Leukemia through Drug Delivery methods. She has been qualified as a Medical Laboratory Scientist by the Australian Institute of Medical Laboratory Scientists (AIMS). She is currently undertaking a master’s degree at Macquarie University, and her master’s degree is focused on the treatment of vestibular disorders by developing biomimetic biocompatible piezo-resistive flow sensors.

Visiting Students

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Fatemeh Ezheian is a PhD candidate in Nano-biotechnology in the factuality of advanced science and technology at University of Isfahan, Iran. Her current project is on design particular geometrical patterned substrates for regulation of MSCs behavior.

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Marzieh Souzanipour is a PhD student in Nanobiotechnology at University of Isfahan. Her thesis concerns the design and functionalization of enzyme-conjugated dendrimer nanocarriers conjugated for targeted delivery of anticancer drug.

Dr. Rajni (Sharma) Pathak is working as a volunteer at asadnialab in the School of Engineering. She completed her PhD in Biotechnology from Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab, India. Her research interests are fabrication of Biosensors/Sensors for heavy metals and ions detection, Biosurfactant production and Bioremediation.
She is currently assessing the state of the art in semicircular canals and green membranes, in order to  produce comprehensive reviews of each field.  


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    • Robotic
    • Meniere's Disease Research
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    • Auditory sensing systems
    • Ion selective membranes, surface chemistry and chemical sensors
    • Instrumentation and Mechatronic systems
    • ​Microfluidics cell sorting
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  • Publications
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