Meet Dr. Mehdi Salek

NEET Lecturer and Lead Instructor, Living Machines

Mehdi Salek, Ph.D., is the Lecturer and Lead Instructor of the NEET Living Machines thread at MIT. Prior to this position, Dr. Salek was a Postdoctoral Associate and working with Professor Roman Stocker at MIT and ETH Zurich. Before starting his Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT, Dr. Salek worked in the industry for 1.5 years where he focused on different research and development projects.

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Dr. Salek received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in fluid mechanics and biomedical engineering from the University of Calgary in 2011, under the supervision of Professor Robert Martinuzzi.
During his Ph.D., Dr. Salek studied the influence of hydrodynamics of flow on bacterial biofilm formation and behavior, a multidisciplinary topic including fluid dynamics and microbiology, to develop more effective strategies to control biofilms in medical and industrial devices.

Dr. Mehdi Salek's latest research, "Multiscale Porosity Microfluidics to Study Bacterial Transport in Heterogeneous Chemical Landscapes," was featured on the front cover of Advanced Science (Volume 11, Issue 20).

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