Contact
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering Dept
- pezeshkp@ualberta.ca
- Address
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5 263 Donadeo Innovation Centre For Engineering
9211 116 StEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
MEMS Liquid Metal Microsystems Microfluidics High-resolution 3D printing Printed Electronics Hand Gesture Recognition on Tactile Displays Health Technologies Advanced Manufacturing Sustainable Energy Fluid Mechanics High-Performance Materials
About
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Alberta (since July 2025)
- Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Group Leader, NeptunLab, Microsystems Engineering Department (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Germany (2020-2025)
- Visiting Scholar, Division of Micro and Nanosystems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2019)
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics, University of Waterloo, Canada (2013-2018)
- BSc and MSc, Mechanical Engineering-Fluid Mechanics, Iran University of Science & Technology (2008)
Research
Research Interests:
- Liquid Metal Microsystems
- Microfluidics
- High-resolution 3D printing (photocurable materials)
- Sustainable Printed Electronics
- Cell separation microfluidics for cancer studies
Announcements
PhD and MSc positions are available in my group!
Undergrad students are welcome to join the research in my lab!
Courses
ENG M 508 - Energy Auditing and Management
Concepts and value of energy management and conservation. Methodologies for energy management in energy intensive systems in various industries. Energy auditing methods and implementation. Energy accounting and economic analysis. Energy audits and maintenance. Exposure to software for energy auditing.
MEC E 240 - Fundamentals of Thermodynamics
Energy and energy transfer. Properties of pure substances. Energy analysis of closed systems and control volumes. The second law of thermodynamics, entropy, and exergy. Prerequisite: MATH 101. Credit can only be granted for one of CH E 243 or MEC E 240.
Featured Publications
Sharaj Hegde Sharavu, Sagar Bhagwat, Sebastian Kluck, Büsra Merve Kirpat Konak, Barbara Di Ventura, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Bastian E Rapp
Spinger Nature-Biomedical Microdevices. 2025 September; 27 (4):42
Ahmed Hamza, Santosh Kumar Prabhulingaiah, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Bastian E. Rapp
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2025 February; 10.1002/aisy.202400663
Ahmed Hamza, Santosh Kumar Prabhulingaiah, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Bastian E. Rapp
Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2025 February; 10.1002/aisy.202570009
Ahmed Hamza, Sara Alzalabny, Priyanka Buduru, Sagar Bhagwat, Ali Usama, Santosh Kumar Prabhulingaiah, Qingchuan Song, Sebastian Kluck, Gerhard Jaworek, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Bastian E. Rapp
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2024 December; 10.1002/admt.202401029
Ahmed Hamza, Sara Alzalabny, Priyanka Buduru, Sagar Bhagwat, Ali Usama, Santosh Kumar Prabhulingaiah, Qingchuan Song, Sebastian Kluck, Gerhard Jaworek, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Bastian E. Rapp
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2024 December; 10.1002/admt.202470116
Christof Rein, Keynaz Kamranikia, Raymonde Council, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Frederik Kotz‐Helmer, Bastian E. Rapp
Advanced Materials Technologies. 2024 October; 10.1002/admt.202400047
Ahmed Hamza, Anagha Navale, Qingchuan Song, Sagar Bhagwat, Frederik Kotz-Helmer, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Bastian E. Rapp
Biomedical Microdevices. 2024 June; 10.1007/s10544-024-00697-z
Sagar Bhagwat, Leonhard Hambitzer, Richard Prediger, Pang Zhu, Ahmed Hamza, Sophia K. Kilian, Sebastian Kluck, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Frederik Kotz-Helmer, Bastian E. Rapp
Sensors. 2024 January; 10.3390/s24020416
Sagar Bhagwat, Andreas Goralczyk, Manuel Luitz, Lathif Sharieff, Sebastian Kluck, Ahmed Hamza, Niloofar Nekoonam, Frederik Kotz-Helmer, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Bastian E. Rapp
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2023 February; 10.1021/acsami.2c17906
Sagar Bhagwat, Ciarán O'Brien, Ahmed Hamza, Shatakshi Sharma, Christof Rein, Mario Sanjaya, Dorothea Helmer, Frederik Kotz‐Helmer, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Bastian E. Rapp
Advanced Materials. 2022 June; 10.1002/adma.202201469
Ahmad Sherbaz, Büşra M. K. Konak, Pegah Pezeshkpour, Barbara Di Ventura, Bastian E. Rapp
Micromachines. 2022 February; 10.3390/mi13030365
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