Introduction

Dr. Mirbod is currently an Assistant Professor in MAE department of Clarkson University. She received her PhD in February 2010 from City University of New York-Graduate Center and she was Postdoctoral Researcher at Benjamin Levich Institute-CCNY. Her honors include being selected to receive NIH Young Investigator award (IFPA 2016), NASA Glenn Faculty Fellowship (2014), Outstanding PhD student Fellowship (Fall 2009), a merit-based Outstanding Student Fellowship (Fall 2010), and  CUNY science Fellowship (Fall 2006). Her research interests lie on theoretical/computational and experimental bio-fluid mechanics, Complex fluids, Multi-phse flow and flow over porous media that are relevant to biomedical and environmental applications.

Patent

Propulsion vehicle which travels along a soft porous track: U.S. Patent SN 8,261,668, issued 9/11/2012.