Samaneh Farokhirad

Dr. Samaneh Farokhirad is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. Prior to joining NJIT, she was an NIH Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Penn Institute for computational science at University of Pennsylvania and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Computational Multiphase Flow Dynamics Group at City College of New York (CCNY). She received her Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from CCNY, and B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology.

Her research focus is in the areas of fluid mechanics and soft matter physics. Her research group will employ novel computational and theoretical models to explore the dynamics and transport of soft materials at surfaces and interfaces. Dr. Farokhirad has been funded by National Science Foundation and Oracle, and she serves on the editorial board of Computational Physiology and Medicine, Frontiers in Physiology & Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

Ph.D.; City College of New York; Mechanical Engineering; 2015

M.Phil.; City College of New York; Mechanical Engineering; 2013

M.S.; Iran University of Science and Technology; Mechanical Engineering; 2009

B.S.; Sharif University of Technology; Mechanical Engineering; 2006

2023 Oracle for Research Project Award, Oracle

2021 Early Career Reviewer at the NIH Center for Scientific Review,

https://farokhirad.com

ME 490 - MECH ENGR PROJECT A

ME 407 - HEAT TRANSFER

ME 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

ME 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

ME 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

ME 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

ME 790A - DOC DISSERTATION & RES

ME 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

ME 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

Theory and Simulation of Soft Biological Materials
Computational Physical Biology
Membrane and Polymer Biophysics
Colloid and Interface Science

Adhesive Interactions of Flexible Nanofilaments Versus Nanogels with Biological Cell Membranes
AICHE,

Enhancing Nanocarrier Targeting: Role of Cell Morphology, Mechanics, and Receptor-Ligand Interactions
AICHE,

Hydrodynamic Behavior of Droplet Pair Collision in Confined Shear Flow, and the Role of Physical and Geometric Parameters
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, September 2023

Impact of interfacial adsorption of nanoparticles on transport properties of two-phase flow in porous media
APS March Meeting, March 2023

Effect of critical geometric and physical parameters on the coalescence dynamics of droplet pairs in confined shear flows
American Institute of Chemical Engineers,, November 2022

Interplay between membrane and nanoparticle mechanical properties during cellular targeting and uptake of flexible nanoparticles
APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2021,

Al Mamun, SM Abdullah, & Farokhirad, Samaneh ConvNet-Based Prediction of Droplet Collision Dynamics in Microchannels. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.05840v1,

Al Mamun, S M Abdullah , & Farokhirad, Samaneh (2024). Hydrodynamic collision and deformation of compound droplet pairs in confined shear flow. Physics of Fluids, 36, 022121.

Al Mamun, S M Abdullah , & Farokhirad , Samaneh (2022). Probing the influence of inertia, viscosity, and initial offset on the hydrodynamic interaction of droplet pairs in confined shear flow. Physical Review Fluids ,

Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Solanky, Priyanjali, & Mohammadi-Shad, Mahmood (2023). Spreading, breakup, and rebound behaviors of compound droplets impacting on microstructured substrates. Langmuir,

Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Kutti Kandy, Sreeja, & Tsourkas, Andrew, & Ayyaswamy, Portonovo, & Eckmann, David M, & Radhakrishnan, Ravi (2021). Biophysical considerations in the rational design and cellular targeting of flexible polymeric nanoparticles. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 8, 2101290.

Radhakrishnan, Ravi, & Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Eckmann, David M, & Ayyaswamy, Portonovo S (2019). Nanoparticle transport phenomena in confined flows, Elsevier. (pp. 55-129). Elsevier

Farokhirad, Samaneh, & Bradley, R P, & Sarkar, A, & Shih, A, & Telesco, S, & Liu, Y, & Venkatramani, R, & Eckmann, D M, & Ayyaswamy, P S, & Radhakrishnan, R (2017). Computational methods related to molecular structure and reaction chemistry of biomaterials, P. Ducheyne, K.E. Healy, D.W. Hutmacher, D.W. Grainger, C.J. Kirkpatrick (Eds.), Elsevier. (pp. 245-267). Elsevier

NSF-CBET Program
Reviewer, Grant Proposal, 2023

NIH Grant Reviewer, Study Section - Bioengineering Sciences & Technology (ZRG1 BST-M80)
Reviewer, Grant Proposal, 2022

NSF-Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Program
Reviewer, Grant Proposal, 2020