Hi! 

I am a postdoctoral researcher working with Charles Schroeder at Princeton University. Before this, I studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tabriz, Iran (undergraduate), and the University of Alberta, Canada (Master of Science), before obtaining my Ph.D. in Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany. I am broadly interested in soft and living matter. In my PhD, I worked on the physicochemical hydrodynamics of active droplets, exploring the interplay between nonlinear chemohydrodynamics and  memory effects. Until earlier this year, I was a postdoctoral researcher with Sujit Datta (now at Caltech) where I studied the collective behaviour of bacteria in confined environments and how microbes use metabolism to disperse in yield stress fluids. Currently, I am integrating model-predictive control (MPC) with high-precision microfluidics to assemble synthetic and biological particles with tunable interactions.