CV - Amir A. Zadpoor

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Education

Professional experience

Chair of Biomaterials & Tissue Biomechanics section, Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2014-present.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), 2014-present.
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Nov 2013-Jan 2014.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), 2010-2014.
PhD researcher, Materials innovation institute (M2i), The Netherlands, 2006-2010.
Graduate Research Assistant (GRA), Biorobotics and Virtual Reality Research Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 2004-2006.

Administrative experience

Coordinator, Master Specialization: Tissue Biomechanics and Implants, Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2010-present.
Committee Member, Education Board, Masters of Biomedical Engineering Program, Delft University of Technology, 2010-present.

Editorial services

Editorial Board, Journal of Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
Academic Editor, PLOS ONE.
Editorial Board, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group).
Guest Editor, Journal of Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Special issue: “Mechanics of 3D printed and additively manufactured biomaterials” (in progress).
Guest Editor, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Special issue: “Additively manufacturing and 3D printing of biomaterials: from nano- to macro-scale” (in progress).
Guest Editor, J Biomech Eng-Trans ASME, Special issue: Cells, tissues, and biomaterials: mechanics of life at different scales.
Guest Editor, Materials, Special issue: Mechanics of Biomaterials.
Guest Editor, Metals, Special issue: Metallic Biomaterials (in progress)
Academic Editor, PeerJ journal.
Editorial Board, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, specialty section: Frontiers in Biomechanics.
Editorial Board, Applied Bionics and Biomechanics.
Editorial Board, The Scientific World Journal, section: Mech Eng.
Editorial Board, PeerJ Computer Science.

Honors and awards

ERC starting grant, European Research Council, 1.5 m€ (2015).
Early Career Award, J Mech Behav Biomed Mater, Elsevier (2015).
Certificate of excellence in reviewing from J Biomechanics (2012).
Veni personal research grant, 250 kEuro (2011)
Supervising the best Bachelors End Project of TU Delft (together with Dr. Gabrielle Tuijthof), the project was awarded a shared Imtech/UfD grant of 2 kEuro (2011)
Gratification award from Materials Innovation Institute (M2i, Netherlands) for “unique accomplishment” in my PhD research (c.a. 2.5 kEuro) (2010).
PhD research fellowship, Materials innovation institute (M2i), The Netherlands (2006-2010)
Conference travel grant, International Neuroscience Conference, Al-Ain, UAE (2005)
Prizewinner of the Departmental Students Research Pioneers Celebration (2002)
University Outstanding Student (2002)
Second place of the National Computer Programming Competition (2001)
Prizewinner of the First National Kharazmi Youth Festival of Scientific Innovation (2000)

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