​Principal Investigator
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Nader Taheri-Qazvini

B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., Polymer Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology

Postdoc, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago

Nader Taheri Qazvini is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. He received his BS and MS degrees and PhD (2006) in polymer engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran where he worked on the glass transition behavior of glassy polymer networks. Then, he began his career as Assistant Professor in the College of Science at the University of Tehran, focusing on the dynamics of polymer chains under different one-dimensional, two-dimensional and random nano-confinements. In 2011, he was awarded a sabbatical leave from the University of Tehran to collaborate with the Laboratory of Food and Soft Materials (Mezzenga group) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Zurich (ETHZ) on self-healing soft materials based on electrostatic interactions. He then joined the Fredberg Lab at Harvard University as a visiting scientist. During his stay at Harvard, working with an interdisciplinary team, he tried to expand the physics of soft glassy materials into the collective motion of cells within well-characterized endothelial and epithelial cell monolayer systems. In September 2015, he moved to Chicago to join Professor Juan de Pablo's and Professor Matthew Tirrell's groups in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. His  work there focused on designing injectable soft materials for tissue engineering applications.

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Graduate Students
Farivash Gholamirad
Gelareh Rezvan


Undergraduate Students
Sophie Greenwell
Alexa Dillon
Alexandra Grant
Kayla Cornwell
​Mary Walden

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Alumni

PhD students:
Nasser Nikfarjam, PhD (Assistant Prof., Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran) 
Hoda Nassira, PhD (Assistant Prof., Zanjan University, Iran)
Amir Zamani-Zeinali, PhD (Iran Petrochemical Company)

MS students:
Kazem Jeddi, PhD (R&D Scientist at IPEX Technologies Inc, Canada) 
Mahdi Ghelichi, PhD (Data Scientist at TD, Toronto, Canada) 
Sharareh Asiaee-Sahneh, PhD (University of Freiburg, Germany) 
Rafiehsadat Norouzian-Amiri, (PhD student,University of Mazandaran, Iran) 
Akhtar Bayat, PhD (Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institut d'Optique, Talence, France)
Zeynab Zangane (Industry, Iran) 
Ehsan Chehrazi, (Assistant professor, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran) 
Elham Farhangnia (Industry, Iran) 
Sahar Zinatloo, PhD (Assistant professor, University of Bonab, Iran)
Sajad Pour-Esmaeil (PhD student, University of Tehran, Iran) 
Rasoul Rakhshaei (PhD student, University of Tabriz, Iran) 
Zahra Shakouri (PhD student, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran) 
Yaser Farajollahi (Industry, Iran) 
Fatemeh Karimi, PhD (Postdoc, UNSW Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Sydney, Australia) 
Farnaz Refahi (Industry, Iran) 
Mohammad Nazarzadeh (PhD student, University of Mashhad, Iran)
Zabihollah Zarghami (PhD student, University of Kashan, Iran) 
Reza Bafkari, PhD (Postdoc, University of Tehran, Iran) 
Pouyan Makvandi, PhD (postdoc, National Research Council of Italy, Italy) 
Ali Ghadami (Industry, Iran),
Sajad Rezaee (Industry, Iran) 
Rashin Namivandi-Zanganeh (PhD student, Australia)
Azar Shamloo (PhD student, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada) 
Soodeh Soleiman-Farhani (Industry, Iran)
Seyed Mohammad Mir (Industry, Iran) 
Sara Naderizadeh, PhD (Postdoc, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy) 
Bita Mohammadi (Industry, Iran) 
Kimia Nankali (Industry, Iran)