Arezoo Motavalizadeh Ardekani
Ardekani in 2019
Born	Iran
Alma mater	Sharif University of Technology University of California, Irvine
Scientific career
Institutions	Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis Massachusetts Institute of Technology Purdue University
Thesis	Particle interaction, deformation, and collision in viscous and viscoelastic fluids (2009)

Arezoo M. Ardekani is an Iranian-American physicist who is a professor at Purdue University. Her research considers the flow of complex fluids. She was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2020 and a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2022.

Early life and education

Ardekani is from Iran. She was born in Isfahan, and was strongly recommended that she become a scientist as a child. ^[1] She moved to Tehran for her undergraduate studies, where she earned a bachelor's degree at the Sharif University of Technology. ^[2] Ardekani moved to the University of California, Irvine for graduate research, ^[3] where she worked on particle interactions. She moved to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow, where she worked with Gareth H. McKinley on bead formation in viscoelastic jets. ^[1]

Career and research

Ardekani started her independent career at the University of Notre Dame in 2011. ^[4] She moved to Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis in 2014, where she leads the Complex Flow Lab. ^[5] She investigates complex fluids and particle transport. She combines theoretical analyses with computational simulations to understand fluid flow.

Ardekani studied the microbes that accumulate at oil spills. She identified that microbes initially move due to chemotaxis (they are attracted to the chemical trail of a food source), but subsequently move due to the formation of a hydrodynamic phenomenon. Ardekani demonstrated that microbes are involved with environmental remediation. ^[6]

Awards and honors

• 2007 Amelia Earhart Fellowship ^[3]
• 2012 National Science Foundation CAREER Award ^[7]
• 2016 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers ^[8]
• 2020 Society of Engineering Science Young Investigator Medal^{[ citation needed]}
• 2020 Elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ^[9]
• 2020 Society of Rheology Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award ^[10]
• 2020 Purdue University University Faculty Scholar ^[11]
• 2022 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society ^[12]

Selected publications

• A Karimi; S Yazdi; Arezoo M Ardekani (5 April 2013). "Hydrodynamic mechanisms of cell and particle trapping in microfluidics". Biomicrofluidics. 7 (2): 21501. doi: 10.1063/1.4799787. ISSN  1932-1058. PMC  3631262. PMID  24404005. Wikidata  Q30440491.
• Gao-Jin Li; Arezoo M Ardekani (15 July 2014). "Hydrodynamic interaction of microswimmers near a wall". Physical Review E. 90 (1): 013010. Bibcode: 2014PhRvE..90a3010L. doi: 10.1103/PHYSREVE.90.013010. ISSN  1539-3755. PMC  4547626. PMID  25122372. Wikidata  Q35990994.
• A Karimi; David K. Karig; A Kumar; Arezoo M Ardekani (1 January 2015). "Interplay of physical mechanisms and biofilm processes: review of microfluidic methods". Lab on a Chip. 15 (1): 23–42. doi: 10.1039/C4LC01095G. ISSN  1473-0197. PMC  4261921. PMID  25385289. Wikidata  Q30394297.

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