All undergraduate Chemical Engineering students are welcome to a special undergraduate lecture, “Introduction to Proteins and their Application in Biomedical Engineering," by Dr. Hamed Shahsavan, NSERC post-doctoral fellow at the Physical Intelligence Department of Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany.
A pizza lunch will be provided.
Please RSVP at https://uwaterloo.ca/chemical-engineering/introduction-proteins-and-their-application-biomedical.
Biographical Sketch
Dr. Hamed Shahsavan is an NSERC post-doctoral fellow at the Physical Intelligence Department of Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany. He obtained his MASc and PhD in Chemical Engineering and Nanotechnology from the University of Waterloo. He was a visiting research scientist in Advanced Materials and Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University in the USA, and in Smart Photonic Materials group at Tampere University in Finland.
Dr. Shahsavan received the Early Stage Career Award from International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference in 2015. His research interests include biomimetic and smart materials, soft-robotics, bioinspired surfaces, contact mechanics and interfacial phenomena, at micro/nanoscales.
His current research focuses on the development of new generations of mobile robots and devices based on anisotropic stimuli-responsive materials, such as liquid crystal networks, at different scales for emerging biomedical technologies.