2020 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award winner, Ali Farghadan, hails from Tehran, Iran where he studied at the Sharif University of Technology and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. During his undergraduate program, he observed the growing significance of engineering in biology and human health and decided to focus on this area of research for his graduate studies. As a student in the Master of Science Mechanical Engineering program at NAU, he joined Dr. Amirhossein Arzani’s Cardiovascular Biomechanics Lab whose focus is on interdisciplinary research of biology and engineering combined with programming and computer simulations. He will be graduating in May 2020 and, having gained extensive research experience while at NAU, he will be continuing on with doctoral studies at the University of Michigan in the fall.
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“The tools and novel concepts that I have developed are going to be the very early steps along the long path of fully understanding, controlling, and estimating the physiological phenomena occurring inside the human lungs. I have dedicated the current academic year to realizing the importance of fluid mechanics in the respiratory system and demonstrating its significance to a broader audience rather than targeting only the mechanical engineering community.”