Current project: Single Cell Manipulation

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PhD - Computer-Aided Engineering and Analysis of Inertial Microfluidic Devices

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Education/Employment

2018-present Research Associate, UNSW, Sydney

2016-present Software analyst and developer, Thermal Environmental Engineering Pty. Ltd., Sydney, Australia

2015-2018 PhD Mechanical Engineering, UNSW, Sydney

2012-2014 Researcher & Software Analyst & Architect & Senior Developer, Olgoo-Pardazan Co., Mashad, Iran

2010-2012 R&D Manager, Arsam Air-Conditioning Col., Tehran, Iran

2006-2009 MSc (Mechanical Engineering), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

2008-2010 Software Developer, Danesh Avaran Col., Mashhad, Iran

2001-2006 BSc (Mechanical Engineering), Azad University of Mashhad, Iran

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Publications​

 

Journal Articles

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Mahdi Motamedi, Chia-Yang Chung, Mehdi Rafeie, Natasha Hjerrild, Fan Jiang, Haoran Qu, Robert A. Taylor. “Experimental Testing of Hydrophobic Microchannels, with and without Nanofluids, for Solar Pv/T Collectors”,  Energies (2019).

 

Mehdi Rafeie, Shahin Hosseinzadeh, Jingrui Huang, Asma Mihandoust, Majid E. Warkiani, and Robert A. Taylor. “New insights into the physics of inertial microfluidics in curved microchannels. II. Adding an additive rule to understand complex cross-sections”, Biomicrofluidics (2019). DOI: 10.1063/1.5109012

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Mehdi Rafeie, Shahin Hosseinzadeh, Robert A. Taylor, and Majid E. Warkiani. “New insights into the physics of inertial microfluidics in curved microchannels. I. Relaxing the fixed inflection point assumption”, Biomicrofluidics (2019). DOI: 10.1063/1.5109004

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Samuel Sofela, Sarah Sahloul, Mehdi Rafeie, Taehong Kwon, Jongyoon Han, Majid E. Warkiani, and Yong-Ak Song “High-Throughput Sorting of Eggs for Synchronization of C. elegans in a Microfluidic Spiral Chip”, Lab on a chip (2018). DOI: 10.1039/ C7LC00998D 

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Maira S. Syed†, Mehdi Rafeie†, Dries Vandamme, Rita Henderson, Robert A. Taylor, and Majid E. Warkiani “Selective Separation of Microalgae Cells Using Inertial Microfluidics”, Bioresource Technology (2017). DOI: 10.1016/J.BIORTECH.2017.12.065

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Maira S. Syed, Mehdi Rafeie, Rita Henderson, Dries Vandamme, Mohsen Asadniad, and Majid E. Warkiani “A 3D-printed mini-hydrocyclone for high throughput particle separation: application to primary harvesting of microalgae”, Lab on a chip (2017). DOI: 10.1039/C7LC00294G

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Mehdi Rafeie, Marcel Welleweerd, Amin Hassanzadeh-Barforoushi, Mohsen Asadnia, Wouter Olthuis, Majid E. Warkiani “An easily fabricated three-dimensional threaded lemniscate-shaped micromixer for a wide range of flow rates”, Biomicrofluidics (2017). DOI: 10.1063/1.4974904

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Mehdi Rafeie†, Jun Zhang†, Mohsen Asadnia, Weihua Li, Majid E. Warkiani “Multiplexing slanted spiral microchannels for ultra-fast blood plasma separation”, Lab on a chip (2016). DOI: 10.1039/C6LC00713A

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Mehdi Rafeie, Ali Reza Teymourtash “Aerodynamic and dynamic analyses of three common 4.5 mm-caliber pellets in a transonic flow”, Scientia Iranica (2016). DOI: 10.24200/SCI.2016.392416.3924.

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Conference Papers

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Samuel Sofela, Sarah Sahloul, Mehdi Rafeie, Kwon Taehong, Jongyoon Han, Majid E. Warkiani, and Yong-Ak Song, “Synchronization of C. elegans through High-Throughput Separation of Eggs in a Microfluidic Spiral Chip”, The Fourth UAE Graduate Students Research Conference (GSRC), American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE (2018).

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Mehdi Rafeie, Guan Yeoh, Majid E. Warkiani, and Robert A. Taylor, “Computer Aided Engineering in Rare Cell Detection for Biomedical Applications”, Postgraduate Research Symposium, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2017).

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Maira S. Syed†, Mehdi Rafeie†, Dries Vandamme, Rita Henderson, Majid E. Warkiani, Robert A. Taylor, “Selective Separation of Microalgae Cells Using Inertial Microfluidics”, The 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (μTAS), Savannah, Georgia, USA (2017).

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Mehdi Rafeie†, Jun Zhang†, Mohsen Asadnia, Weihua Li, Majid E. Warkiani, “Multiplexing slanted spiral microchannels for ultra-fast blood plasma separation”, The 20th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (μTAS), Dublin, Ireland (2016).

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Mehdi Rafeie, Nona Farbehi, Robert Nordon, Majid E. Warkiani, “Applications of Microfluidic Devices in Rare Cell Analysis”, The IEEE Technologies of the Future (ITOF), University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2015).

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Alireza Gerami K. N., Peyman Mostaghimi, Ryan T Armstrong, Mehdi Rafeie, Majid E. Warkiani, “Using Microfluidics for Visualisation of Displacement Mechanisms on Pore Network Models”, American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (2015).

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Mehdi Rafeie, Ali Reza Teymourtash, Majid M. Jafarian, “Aerodynamic and Dynamic Analysis of Two Common Air Gun Bullets in a Transonic Flow”, The 8th International Conference of Iranian Aerospace Society (IAS), Isfahan, Iran (2009).

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Majid E. Warkiani, Mehdi Rafeie, Ali Reza Teymourtash, “Natural Convection over a Non-Isothermal Vertical Flat Plate in Supercritical Fluids”, The 16th International Conference on Mechanical Engineering (ISME), Kerman, Iran (2008).