Principal Investigator
Dr Warkiani is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Biomedical Engineering, UTS, Sydney, Australia. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and undertook postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SMART centre). He is also one of the group leaders at the Australian Center for NanoMedicine (ACN). Dr Warkiani is also a visiting scientist at the Garvan Institute for Biomedical Research.
Dr Warkiani’s current research activities focus on three key areas of (i) Microfluidics involving the design and development of novel platforms for rare cell sorting (e.g., circulating tumor cells, fetal cells & stem cells) and the development of novel 3D devices for investigation of angiogenesis and tumor formation, (ii) Bio-MEMS involving the fabrication and characterization of novel isopore membranes and the design and development of novel micro PCR chips, and (iii) Rapid prototyping and Tissue engineering involving novel filtration platforms and desktop tumor modelling for drug efficacy screening. Over the past 3 years, he is expanded also his research interest towards biomedical engineering and lab-on-a-chip systems.
Researcher ID: J-8838-2015
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-4184-1944
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Selected Honors/Awards
Dr Warkiani’s current research activities focus on three key areas of (i) Microfluidics involving the design and development of novel platforms for rare cell sorting (e.g., circulating tumor cells, fetal cells & stem cells) and the development of novel 3D devices for investigation of angiogenesis and tumor formation, (ii) Bio-MEMS involving the fabrication and characterization of novel isopore membranes and the design and development of novel micro PCR chips, and (iii) Rapid prototyping and Tissue engineering involving novel filtration platforms and desktop tumor modelling for drug efficacy screening. Over the past 3 years, he is expanded also his research interest towards biomedical engineering and lab-on-a-chip systems.
Researcher ID: J-8838-2015
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-4184-1944
Google scholar: Link
Selected Honors/Awards
- Nanyang Outstanding Young Alumni Award (2016).
- MIT TR35 young investigator, Asia-Pacific Region (2016).
- Fresh Science Program, Australia (2015).
- Students’ Design Gold Award, Biomedical Engineering Society, Singapore, (2014).
- SMART prestigious fellowship (2013).
- Best student paper award at AMN-APLOC 2011, 5-7 January, Singapore.
- Best research proposal award at NanoMemCourse 2010 at Netherlands.
- A*STAR prestigious scholarship for PhD study at NTU (2009)
PhD students
PhD students at UNSW
- Maira S. Syed (2014-2018) is a PhD candidate in the school of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW and recipient of the prestigious Australian Postgraduate Award (APA). She received her M.Sc. degree in Thermal Power Engineering from University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan. She is working under the supervision of Dr Warkaini and Dr Taylor on the design and development of 3D printed mini-cyclones for high throughput particle/cell sorting.
Mehdi Rafeie (2015-2018) is a PhD candidate in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW. He received his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Azad University of Mashhad, Iran, in 2006. Afterwards, he continued his education and received his M.Sc. degree in Energy Conversion from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, in 2009. He is working under the supervision of Dr Warkaini and Dr Taylor on the design and development of novel inertial microfluidic systems for high throughput particle/cell sorting.
Amin Hassanzadeh-Barforoushi (2016-2019) is a PhD candidate in the school of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW. He received both his BSc and MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran. In his MSc thesis, he investigated the fluid behavior within different types of microfluidic components including micromixers and micropumps. This includes unsteady pulsating flow in valve-less micropumps as flow rectifiers and combined passive and active (electroosmotic) methods to enhance micro-mixing efficiency. He joined UNSW as a PhD student in 2015. His research interests are micro/nanofluidics, biomedical microdevices, micro/nanofabrication and BioMEMS. His current research involves microfluidic co-culture systems.
Hanjie Wu (2017-2020) is a PhD candidate in the School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW. He received his B. Eng. degree from South China University of Technology, China. During his undergraduate study, he was enrolled in the joint training program of innovation genomics research. Afterwards, He joined BGI-Shenzhen and worked as a researcher in R&D Dept. His jobs focus on single tumor cell sequencing, and he published several articles in journals. He joined UNSW as a PhD student in 2017. His research interests lie in isolation and analysis of circulating tumor cells by microfluidics system, massive parallel bio-material testing platform, point of care monitoring and diagnosis devices for health care.
Alireza Gerami is a PhD candidate at the school of petroleum engineering of UNSW working under supervision of Dr. Mostaghimi & Warkiani. He is recipient of the prestigious Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) scholarship in 2014. He got his master degree in Mechanical Engineering and obtained professional work experiences in Oil & Gas and manufacturing industries too. He has valuable skills in 3D modelling using AutoCAD, Solidworks and ANSYS and currently exploring rapid prototyping using additive manufacturing and softlitoghraphy for his research.
Yara Alzahid is a PhD student at the school of petroleum engineering of UNSW working under supervision of Dr. Armstrong, Dr. Mostaghimi & Dr. Warkiani. She is a sponsored student from Saudi Aramco. Her main research focus is in Enhanced Oil Recovery, more specifically, in Alkaline Surfactant Polymer flooding. She received her Masters from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. She has 2 years experience working as a petroleum scientist in Saudi Aramco.
Mahdi Motamedi is a PhD candidate at school of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW working under supervision of Dr. Taylor & Warkiani. He received both his MSc and BSc degrees in Chemical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) in Iran. His current research involves solar thermal receivers.
PhD students in other universities
Reza Moloudi is a PhD student at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of Nanyang Technological University. He is a recipient of prestigious Singapore International Graduate Award (SINGA)-ASTAR in 2015 and pursuing his PhD research at SIMTech, one of the Research Institutes of Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A-STAR). He graduated in Mechanical Engineering-Thermo fluid from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, in 2010 with first class honors in bachelor degree; afterwards, he continued his education in Mechanical Engineering-Energy Conversion in modeling of gas pipeline rupture granted by Provincial Gas Company, and received his MSc degree from FUM, Iran, in 2013. He is currently working on large-scale cell separation from manufactured cell product by exploiting Inertial Microfluidic techniques under the supervision of Dr. Warkiani (UNSW), Dr. Steve Oh (BTI) and Dr. May Win (SIMTech).
Hossein Tavassoli received his Bachelor’s degree in materials engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran in 2011 and graduated with distinction from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Iran where he obtained his Master’s degree in Bioengineering in 2014. During his master studies he joined Pasteur Institute of Iran as a research assistant in National Cell Bank of Iran (NCBI) and Physiology and Pharmacology department from 2012 to 2015, wherein he investigated on tissue engineered constructs. Afterwards, Hossein moved to Australia for his PhD studies to work on development of new microfluidic systems for studying Mesenchymal stem cells heterogeneity under supervision of Dr. Peggy Chan (Swinburne University), Dr Vashe (UNSW) Dr. Warkiani (UTS).
Meysam Rezaeishahmirzadi is a PhD candidate in the school of Engineering - FII at University of South Australia (UNISA). He received his Bachelor's degree in Medical Laboratory of Science from Iran University of Medical Science (IUMS) in 2008.He graduated from Hormozgan University of Medical Science (HUMS) with a Master degree in Human Genetics at 2014. He has two accepted articles in Hormozgan Medical Journal (HMJ), a presentation & poster in International congress in Mashhad, Iran 2014 and two other papers proceeding.He has more than 6 years of professional experience in clinical, pathological and Genetic sciences consist of Molecular Biology& Molecular Genetic Techniques. He has been working as genetic counselor assistant for prenatal & premarital genetic counseling for 3 years.He was Executive Director of the Conference of HPV and cervical cancer, screening tests for fetal and prenatal genetic tests in 19th January 2015.For PhD he could win the University of South Australia President’s Scholarship (UPS) and School of Engineering - FII scholarship.As a PhD project he is studying and working on a new technology to isolate fetal cells in maternal blood for non-invasive prenatal diagnostic under the supervision of A/Prof. Benjamin Thierry (UNISA) and Dr. Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani (UTS).
Vy Thi Hoang Nguyen is a PhD student in the Future Industry Institute, University of South Australia (UNISA). She received her B.E. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Da Nang University of Technology, Vietnam and M.Sc. degree in Micro and Nanosystem technology from Buskerud and Vestfold University, Norway. She is currently working on development of a novel noninvasive prenatal diagnosis technology based on the isolation of circulating fetal trophoblast using inertial microfluidics under the supervision of Prof. Benjamin Thierry (UNISA) and Dr. Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani (UTS).
Master students (by research)
Shahin Hosseinzadeh is a M.Sc. student in the school of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW working under supervision of Dr. Warkiani and A/P Barber. He received B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Sahand University of technology, Iran, in 2014. He is currently working os design and development of novel microfluidic systems for particle and cell sorting.
Fangxu Du is a M.Sc. student in the school of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW working under supervision of Dr. Warkiani and A/P Barber. He received B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Dalian Jiaotong University, China, in 2016. His main research interests are focused on utility of 3D printing and softlithography for building functional microfluidic systems.
Undergraduate and graduate students (by course)
1- Benjamin Goodnow (TOR)
2- Menglu Liu
2- Menglu Liu
Lab Alumni (since 2014)
1- Raghav Lakshman (M.Sc.)
2- Anthony Shi (B.Sc.)
3- Saiful Anuar (B.Sc.)
4- Mathijs Bronkhorst (M.Sc.), Visiting Student, University of Twente
5- Shayla Carlin (B.Sc.)
6- Tejas Pitale (M.Sc.)
7- Ashik Kavanakudy (B.Sc.)
8- Anthony Zada (B.Sc.)
9- Adam Joffe (B.Sc.), Taste of Research
10- Marcel Welleweerd (M.Sc.), Visiting Student, University of Twente
11- Moses Lee (B.Sc.)
12- Danlin Zhao (M.Sc.)
13- Hanming Zhang (M.Sc.)
14- Lei Sun (M.Sc.)
15- Jayden W (M.Sc.)
16- Ahmad Firdaus Abu Hanipah (B.Sc.)
17- Ainol basyiruddin ahmad (B.Sc.)
18- Jingrui Huang (M.Sc.)
19- Muhammad Ikhlas (B.Sc.)
20- Derek Chung (M.Sc. by Research)
2- Anthony Shi (B.Sc.)
3- Saiful Anuar (B.Sc.)
4- Mathijs Bronkhorst (M.Sc.), Visiting Student, University of Twente
5- Shayla Carlin (B.Sc.)
6- Tejas Pitale (M.Sc.)
7- Ashik Kavanakudy (B.Sc.)
8- Anthony Zada (B.Sc.)
9- Adam Joffe (B.Sc.), Taste of Research
10- Marcel Welleweerd (M.Sc.), Visiting Student, University of Twente
11- Moses Lee (B.Sc.)
12- Danlin Zhao (M.Sc.)
13- Hanming Zhang (M.Sc.)
14- Lei Sun (M.Sc.)
15- Jayden W (M.Sc.)
16- Ahmad Firdaus Abu Hanipah (B.Sc.)
17- Ainol basyiruddin ahmad (B.Sc.)
18- Jingrui Huang (M.Sc.)
19- Muhammad Ikhlas (B.Sc.)
20- Derek Chung (M.Sc. by Research)
