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Dr Amirpasha Moetazedian

Lecturer in Medical Engineering

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
  • School of Engineering

Qualifications

  • BSc (University of Birmingham)
  • MRes (University of Birmingham)
  • PhD / DPhil (Loughborough University)

Summary

Amirpasha is a lecturer in Medical Engineering at the University of Hull. His research activity is focused on biomanufacturing and biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In specific, his research group is involved in development of novel microfluidic devices for 3D bioprinting, wearable sensors and in vitro modelling and their characterisation using advanced techniques available at Harwell Campus.

Amirpasha has over 6 years of research experience in the field of additive manufacturing with >20 publications. Amirpasha has also disseminated his research findings over 10 national and international conferences of which 2 were invited. Throughout his career, his contribution to his research field has been extremely innovative; he produced the first micro-scale design approach for material extrusion additive manufacturing which has been used for a wide range of applications including tissue engineering, 3D printed electronics, microfluidics, prosthetics. He has also developed the first modular and versatile 3D-printed microfluidic chip nozzles for 3D bioprinting, and he is working on commercialising this technology.

He strives to use rigorous engineering research to drive additive manufacturing and medical manufacturing beyond the current state-of-the-art. His work is driven by multidisciplinary collaboration between clinicians, biologists and industry. He is working on several projects with universities in Italy, Japan and within the UK.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you think there may be scope for collaboration or if you’re considering postgraduate research.

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Versatile Microfluidics for Biofabrication Platforms Enabled by an Agile and Inexpensive Fabrication Pipeline

Moetazedian, A., Candeo, A., Liu, S., Hughes, A., Nasrollahi, V., Saadat, M., …Poologasundarampillai, G. (2023). Versatile Microfluidics for Biofabrication Platforms Enabled by an Agile and Inexpensive Fabrication Pipeline. Advanced Healthcare Materials, 12(26), Article 2300636. https://doi.org/10.1002/adhm.202300636

Extra-wide deposition in extrusion additive manufacturing: A new convention for improved interlayer mechanical performance

Allum, J., Moetazedian, A., Gleadall, A., Mitchell, N., Marinopoulos, T., McAdam, I., …Silberschmidt, V. V. (2023). Extra-wide deposition in extrusion additive manufacturing: A new convention for improved interlayer mechanical performance. Additive Manufacturing, 61, Article 103334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2022.103334

Fracture mechanisms of additively manufactured polylactide: Effect of in vitro hydrolytic degradation

Moetazedian, A., Gleadall, A., & V Silberschmidt, V. (2022). Fracture mechanisms of additively manufactured polylactide: Effect of in vitro hydrolytic degradation. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 269, Article 108572. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2022.108572

Bulk-Material Bond Strength Exists in Extrusion Additive Manufacturing for a Wide Range of Temperatures, Speeds, and Layer Times

Moetazedian, A., Allum, J., Gleadall, A., & Silberschmidt, V. V. (2023). Bulk-Material Bond Strength Exists in Extrusion Additive Manufacturing for a Wide Range of Temperatures, Speeds, and Layer Times. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, 10(3), 514-523. https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2021.0112

Discussion on the microscale geometry as the dominant factor for strength anisotropy in material extrusion additive manufacturing

Allum, J., Moetazedian, A., Gleadall, A., & Silberschmidt, V. V. (2021). Discussion on the microscale geometry as the dominant factor for strength anisotropy in material extrusion additive manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing, 48 part A, Article 102390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2021.102390

Research interests

Additive Manufacturing

Microfluidics

Tissue Engineering

In vitro models

Biomaterials

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

HIKE: M3D-BIO: Microfluidics-Enabled 3D Printing for Biofabrication

Funder

MRC Medical Research Council

Grant

£2,000.00

Started

26 May 2024

Status

Ongoing

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Moetazedian welcomes applications in his specialist areas:

- 3D printing Microfluidics for tissue engineering

- Wearable sensors for biomedical application

- Material Extrusion additive manufacturing of scaffolds

Current PhD Supervisions

- Milad Mansouri, Development of agile microfluidics for production of complex 3D bio-inspired fibres (Engineering PhD studentship with University of Huddersfield)

Conference presentation

Commendation for Poster presentation at RSC Biomaterials Chemistry annual meeting

2021

Honorary position

3M BIC Fellowship

2023

Visiting Researcher at University of Birmingham

2021

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