Dr Majid Ebrahimi Warkiani

Professor | School of Biomedical Engineering, UTS, Australia

Dr Warkiani is a Professor and CINSW Fellow in the School of Biomedical Engineering, UTS, Australia. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore), and undertook postdoctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, USA). Dr Warkiani is co-director of the Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Point of Care Testing and a core-member of Institute for Biomedical Materials & Devices (IBMD) and Center for Health Technologies (CHT) at UTS. Dr Warkiani’s current research activities focus on three key areas of (i) Microfluidics involving the design and development of novel microfluidic systems for cell sorting (e.g., circulating tumor cells, fetal cells & stem cells) for diagnostic and therapeutic applications, (ii) Organ-on-a-chips involving the fabrication and characterization of novel 3D lab-on-a-chip systems (e.g., Tumour-on-a-chip) to model physiological functions of tissues and organs, and (iii) 3D micro-printing involving the design and development of novel miniaturized systems (e.g., micromixers, micro-cyclones) for basic and applied research.