About Me
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Education
Sep. 2016 – Sep. 2019 (Overall GPA: 3.47/4, Last Year’s GPA: 3.68/4)
University of Tehran
M.Sc. in MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems), Department of Interdisciplinary Technology, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, Tehran, Iran
Thesis: Design and Fabrication of Lab on a Disc microfluidic system for blood components separation and pathogens monitoring
Sep. 2009 – Feb. 2014 (Overall GPA: 2.94/4, Last Year’s GPA: 3.64/4, GPA of the last 3 semesters: 3.45/4, Last Two Years’ GPA: 3.38/4.0)
Islamic Azad University of Eslamshahr
B.Sc. in Mechanics Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tehran, Iran
Sep. 2004 – Jun. 2007(Overall GPA: 17.10/20)
Modarres High School, Tehran, Iran
Diploma in Mathematics and Physics
RESEARCH INTERESTS
MEMS/NEMS Engineering
- PMMA/PDMS Devices
- Lab on a Chip
- Microfabrication
- Design and Fabrication of Microfluidic Devices
- Lab on a Disc
Biomedical Engineering (BME)
- Cancer Research
- Particle Separation
- BioMEMS
- Circulating Tumor Cells (CTC) Isolation
- Blood Analysis
PUBLICATIONS
Preprints
Madadi, M., Madadi, A., Zareifar, R., & Nikfarjam, A. (2025). High-efficiency centrifugal microfluidic device for label-free isolation of HT29 human colorectal cancer cells from whole blood.
Madadi, M., Madadi, A., & Nikfarjam, A. (2025). A new geometric pattern based on the Boycott effect to accelerate blood
sedimentation and processing in the Lab on Disc devices.
Journal papers
Madadi, M., Madadi, A., Zareifar, R., & Nikfarjam, A. (2023). A simple solvent-assisted method for thermal bonding of largesurface, multilayer PMMA microfluidic devices. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 349, 114077.
Mousavi, M., Moradian, S., Pourhakkak, P., Zhang, G., Habibi, M. M., Madadi, M., & Ghasemi, J. B. (2022). Fabrication of Sscheme heterojunction g-C3N4-nanosheet/ZnMoO4 nanocomposite with high efficiency in photocatalytic N2 fixation and Cr.
(VI) detoxification. Journal of Materials Science, 57(20), 9145-9163.
Madadi, M., Fathipour, M., & Ghasemi, J. B. (2021). Separation of human granulocytes and mononuclear cells from whole blood using percoll on a centrifugal microfluidic disc. Microchemical Journal, 167, 106316.
Conference papers
Esmaeilzadshali, H., Koohsorkhi, J., Madadi, M., Ghasemi Kordlar, A., (2022), Patterned Synthesis of Titanium Dioxide Nanorods, 3th OGP International Conference on the new technologies in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries (NTOGP), pp
.163-170
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Fall 2019 – Summer 2021
MEMS and NEMS Laboratory – Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Under supervision of Prof. Morteza Fathipour
- Research on microfluidic chips
- Design and implement integrated microfluidic networks on 'Lab on a Disc' systems
- Manufacturing of an experimental centrifuge stand using a rotor as a set-up to implement disc spin protocols
- Research on blood cells and studying on-disc methods for cell separation
- Study of cell preparation and staining protocols for working on human blood samples
Fall 2021 – Up to now
MEMS and NEMS Laboratory – Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Under supervision of Prof. Alireza Nikfarjam.
- Studying different fabrication methods of bioMEMS devices
- Research on direct bonding methods of PMMA-PMMA and PMMA-PDMS substrates
- Analysis and testing of polymer chips fabricated with Pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA)
- Testing different methods of polymer surface treatment (solvent-assisted and oxygen plasma methods)
- Research on different methods of CTC isolation
- Carrying out standard methods of cell culture, preparation, and fluorescent staining
- Investigating the inertial forces affecting the movement of particles in a micro-channel
- Numerical simulation of microfluidic and particle movement behavior
- Carrying out standard soft lithography techniques using SU photoresist mold to fabricate PDMS chips
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
- Evaporation systems (EBeam, Thermal)
- DC-Sputtering
- Mask producing and reduction
- Lithography
- Methods of Si and SiO2 Etching (Wet Etch, RIE)
- Methods of Diffusion
- Working with Thermal and Field emission SEM instruments
- Micromachining with CO2 laser cutting machine
HONORS
- One of the top two MEMS students of 2016 entries who achieved an excellent grade (20/20) for the master's thesis
SKILLS
Computer
- COMSOL Multiphysics/ CorelDRAW/ Auto CAD®
Language
- English: Fluent
- Persian: as a native language
- Turkish (Azerbaijani): Fluent (Second Language)
- Arabic: Familiar (High-school knowledge in addition to the similarities with Persian)
EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS
- Reading, Music, Movie, photographing, Hiking, Football
REFERENCES
Prof. Alireza Nikfarjam
Associate Professor, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, University of Tehran
Email address: a.nikfarjam@ut.ac.ir
Web page: https://cist.ut.ac.ir/~a.nikfarjam
Prof. Morteza Fathipour
Professor, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran
Email address: mfathi@ut.ac.ir
Web page: https://ece.ut.ac.ir/~mfathi
More references will be available on request