I am a Mechanical Engineer by training. I am specialized in the area of fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and soft matter. I obtained my B.Sc. from Sharif University of Technology, Iran, and my Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. After 9 years of academic life, in 2023 I decided to take on a new challenge and enter the industrial world; product development specifically. I am now a Senior ME at SharkNinja R&D where I lead fluid flow system investigations via CFD, Fluid Visualization techniques, rapid prototyping, and design.

Prior to this I was the Hibbitt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Fluid Mechanics at Brown University School of Engineering where I was also a visiting postoc at MIT Pattern Formation lab in the Mechanical Engineering Department (2022-23). Before joinging Brown, I was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University (2020-22).

Over nearly a decade in academia through graduate and post graduate studies, I enjoyed interacting with many brilliant minds in fluid dynamics and soft matter community. I find myself exteremly lucky to have found a home in communities such as APS DFD, APS DSoft, and ASME. Being an academic is now a part of me, and I will continue to publish in peer-reviewed journals, provide review for journals, serve on proposal panels, and help organize academic events.

Latest News

• Olfa D'angelo and I will be chairing the GRS meeting on Granullar Matter in Stonehill College June 22-23 2024. For registration and more information visit GRS page..
• Our new manuscript "Mermaid Cereal: Interactions and Pattern Formation in a Macroscopic Magnetocapillary SALR System" is now on arXiv.
• I will give an invited talk at the APS March Meeting, Gallery of Soft Matter Session in Minneapolis. Link
• Our Editorial article "Second Annual APS DSOFT Gallery of Soft Matter" is out! Link
• Our new paper, "Effect of angle in removing proteins or bacteria on a tilted surface using air bubbles", has been chosen as editor's suggestion in Physical Review Fluids. Link Press
• Our video "Mermaid Cereal" won the Gallery of Soft Matter Award from APS DSOFT! Video Press
• I will be visiting WPI to give a Department Seminar in the Mechanical Engineering Department on March 17th.
• I will be chairing the session "Fluids IX" on Wednesday, March 8, at the APS March Meeting 2023 in Las Vegas, NV.
• I will be visiting MIT to give a Soft Matter Seminar in the Mechanical Engineering Department on Feb 16th.
• I will be giving a virtual fluids seminar in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on Jan. 27.
• I will be visiting the Center for Computational Biology at Flatiron Institute on Dec. 9th.
• I will be visiting the ME Department at the City College of New York for a seminar on "Sustainable cleaning of surfaces with drops and bubbles" on Dec. 8th.
• I will be presenting "Dynamics of air bubbles in removing proteins or bacteria on a tilted surface"" at APS DFD Annual Meeting in Indianapolis on Nov. 21.
• I will be presenting "Surface Tenion Driven Phenomena across Scales in the Meet the Faculty Candidates Session at AICHE meeting in Pheonix on Nov. 13.
• I will be visiting Princeton to give a talk about "vibration-induced fog harvesting" at SMatCH on Oct. 27.
• I have been elected as the Early Career Member-at-Large on the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (APS DFD) Executive Committee. Looking forward to serving.
• I will be visiting the ME Department at Penn State University on Sep. 15 to give a fluid seminar on "Sustainable cleaning of surfaces using air bubbles". Looking forward to the visit.
• Our work on "Backflipping bubbles" has been featured in articles by newscientist and fyfluiddynamics.
• Our new manuscript "Backflipping motion of air bubbles colliding with a tilted wall" is now accessible on arXiv.
• I will be leading an activity in the Girls Get Math outreach program to introduce "Surface Tension" to the participants.
• Our new manuscript "Removing proteins or bacteria on a tilted surface using air bubbles" is now accessible on arXiv.
• I've been nominated as the Early Career Member-at-Large for the APS DFD Executive Committee for 2022-2023.
• I've been elected as the co-chair of the upcoming Gordon Research Seminar on Granular Matter in 2024.
• I won the honorable poster award at the Gordon Research Conference on Granular Matter in Stonehill College.
• Our paper "Droplet dynamics under an impinging air jet" is published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
• Our paper "Gravity-induced double encapsulation of liquids using granular rafts" is published in Physical Review Fluids.
• I will be a discussion leader in the upcoming Gordon Research Seminar on Granular Matters in June 2022.
• Starting May 2022, I will be the Hibbitt postdoctoral fellow in center for fluid mechanics at Brown University.
• Our work on "Dynamics of a partially wetting droplet under wind and gravity" has been featured on many news outlets including ScienceNews and fyfluiddynamics.
• Our paper "Dynamics of a partially wetting droplet under wind and gravity" is published in Physical Review Fluids.
• I will be giving a seminar at Brown Fluids Seminar on 04/05/2022.
• Our paper "Buoyancy-Marangoni fingering of a miscible spreading drop" is published in Symmetry.
• I will be chairing the session "Bubbles: rupture and breakup" at APS DFD meeting in Phoenix.
• I have been nominated for candidacy for Junior Scientist Member of DfD executive committee (2021-2022). The ballot will be open September 14-28.
• I will be organizing Cornell Fluid Seminars in fall 2021. For any seminar inquiries contact me via email.
• I will be presenting "Droplet Dynamics on a Vibrating Vertical Wire" at APS virtual March meeting 2021.
• I presented "Gravity-induced encapsulation of an armored droplet" at 73rd annual DFD virtual meeting hosted by Chicago.
• We submitted our manuscript on "Forcing-dependent droplet depinning in the high-Reynolds-number regime".
• Our paper "Droplet breakup in a stagnation-point flow" is published in the journal of Fluid Mechanics.
• I will be presenting "droplet depinning in the wake of a solid hemisphere" at IPRIME in August 2020.
• I will be joining Prof. Sunny Jung's lab starting August 2020.
• I defended my Ph.D. via Zoom in May 2020!
• I gave a Zoom seminar on "an armored droplet approaching a fluid-fluid interface" at Northwestern physics department in April 2020.
• I presented "Droplets in Wind" at Courant Institute AML seminar in January 2020.
• I presented "Droplet Depinning under Forcing by Wind and Gravity" at 72nd annual DFD meeting in Seattle.
• I presented "an Armored Droplet Approaching a Fluid-Fluid Interface" at 72nd annual DFD meeting in Seattle.
• We presented a poster on "Particle enrichment and instability on a fluid interface" at 72nd annual DFD meeting in Seattle.
• I presented "Droplet depinning under effects of wind and gravity / Armored droplet approaching a fluid-fluid interface" at CPFP seminar in November 2019.
• I presented "breakup of a droplet under a stagnation-point flow" at SMatCH in July 2019.
• I have received the graduate teaching fellowship from the department of mechanical engineering at university of Minnesota to teach undergraduate heat transfer for spring 2020.
• Our paper "Stability analysis of a particle band on the fluid–fluid interface" is published in JFM