People
Principal Investigator
José MORÁN
José MORÁN obtained BSc and MSc engineering degrees from the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria in Chile in 2017. In November 2021, he received a PhD in Physics at INSA de Rouen in France by conducting research in the CORIA laboratory. He also conducted postdoctoral research at Carleton University, Canada, and notably at the University of Minnesota, USA for 2 years. He joined the University of Ottawa’s Department of Mechanical Engineering as an Assistant Professor in July 2024.
PhD students
Jahanbakhsh JAHANZAMIN
Co-supervised with Prof. M. Reza KHOLGHY (Carleton University).
Jahanbakhsh is a Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student at Carleton University, Ottawa. He received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (2016), focusing on using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) in simulating multiphase microfluidic systems. He further pursued an M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (2019) in which he utilized a Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) model of the left heart and mitral valve to study turbulence in cardiovascular flows in ADINA. Upon joining the National Research Council Canada (NRC) as a visitor researcher, he worked on developing CFD/FSI models for studying the interaction of nanoplastic particles for separating nanoplastics from environmental samples. He further explored the application of CFD in improving the sensitivity of microfluidic optical biosensors.
Undergraduate students
Markos BROWN
Markos is a senior in Biomedical Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. In addition to his studies, he has gained experience from internships at the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Space Agency. Outside of working and school, Markos is an avid member of the community and participated in a variety of roles. Evident by his time as Vice President of Academic Affair for the Engineering Students’ Society, Co-President of the National Society of Black Engineers uOttawa chapter and Let’s Talk Science Mentor. He consistently demonstrates leadership, as seen through his achievement as an Odgers Berndtson CEOx1Day finalist with Giatec and his ranking top 5 at Concordia University internationally recognized Engineering and Commerce Case Competition.