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Faculty

Professor Morteza Gharib

Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Medical Engineering
Director/Executive Officer, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories/Department
Booth-Kresa Leadership Chair/Director, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies

Email: mgharib@caltech.edu
Phone: 626-395-4453
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Professor Gharib's research interests cover a range of topics in fluid dynamics and aeronautics. These include vortex dynamics, active and passive flow control, autonomous flight, underwater systems and robotics, as well as advanced flow-imaging diagnostics.

His biomechanics and medical engineering research activities can be categorized into two main areas: the fluid dynamics of physiological machines (such as the human circulatory system and aquatic breathing/ propulsion), and the development of medical devices (such as heart valves, cardiovascular health monitoring devices, and drug delivery systems.

Staff

Sarah Pontes: Assistant to the Gharib Research Group

Research Staff

Reza Nemovi
Joshua Gurovich

Research Engineers

David Jeon, Ph.D.
Alexandros Rosakis, Ph.D
Julian Humml, Ph.D

Postdoctoral Scholars

Eric Sihite, Ph.D.
Alexander Rusch, Ph.D.
Xiahzhou Fan, Ph.D.
Rashid Alavi, Ph.D
Arian Aghilinejad, Ph.D
Alessio Tamborini, Ph.D

Graduate Students

Scott Bollt
Sean Devey
Meredith Hooper
Ioannis Mandralis
Sean Mendoza
Stephanie O’Gara
Alejandro Stefan-Zavala

Visitors

Manoochehr Koochesfahani, Professor (Michigan State University)
Farbod Khoshnoud, Professor (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
Alireza Ramezani, Professor (Northeastern University)
Francisco Pereira, Professor (Istituto di Ingegneria del Mare)
Quentin Delfosse, (MSc, EPFL)
Gabriel Margaria, (MSc, EPFL)
Vincent Gherold, (MSc, EPFL)
Noah Van Santen, (MSc, Delft University)

Previous Members

Postdoctoral Scholars

Ernesto Criado Hidalgo, Ph.D
Adrianus Indrat (Indrat) Aria, Ph.D
Idit Avrahami, Ph.D.
Hesham Azizgolshani, Ph.D
Kumar Manoj Bobba, Ph.D
Julia Cosse, Ph.D
Isabelle Darolles, Ph.D
Brad Dooley, Ph.D. 
Azin Fahimi, Ph.D
Arian Forouhar, Ph.D
Amir Gat, Ph.D
Damian Hirsch, Ph.D.
Francisco Huera-Huarte, Ph.D
Cecilia Huertas-Cerdeira, Ph.D
Ehsan Jabbarzadeh, Ph.D.
Daegyoum Kim, Ph.D
Tae Woo Kim, Ph.D.
Arash Kheradvar, Ph.D
Shailabh Kumar, Ph.D
Tal Lindner, Ph.D
Jian Lu, Ph.D.
Michele Milano, Ph.D.
Flavio Noca, Ph.D.
Niema Pahlevan, Ph.D
Tait Pottebaum, Ph.D
Alireza Ramezani, Ph.D
Derek Rinderknecht Ph.D
Chris Roh, Ph.D
Nikoo Saber, Ph.D
Elijah Sansom, Ph.D
Radwanul Hasan (Radwan) Siddique, Ph.D
Robert Sneddon, Ph.D
PenmanTavallali, Ph.D.
Cong Wang, Ph.D
Pun To (Douglas) Yung, Ph.D
Peter Renn, Ph.D.

Graduate Students

Cong Wang, Ph.D.
Alexandros Rosakis, Ph.D.
Emile Oshima, Ph.D.
Peter Renn, Ph.D.
Gabriel Acevedo-Bolton, Ph.D.
Mustfa Akdis, Ph.D.
Indrat Aria, Ph.D.
Paisan Atsavapranee, Ph.D.
Hesham Azizgolshani, Ph.D.
Manuel Bedrossian, Ph.D.
Kumar Bobba, Ph.D.
Julia T. Cosse, Ph.D.
Dana Dabiri, Ph.D.
John Dabiri, Ph.D.
Brad Dooley, Ph.D.
Christopher Dougherty, Ph.D.
Arian Forouhar, Ph.D
Amir D. Gat, Ph.D. 
Emilio Graff, Ph.D
Morgane Grivel, Ph.D.
Anya Grosberg, Ph.D.
Mustapha Hammache, Ph.D.
Anna Iwaniec Hickerson, Ph.D.
Damian Hirsch, Ph.D.
Jinglin Huang, Ph.D.
Cecilia Huertas-Cerdeira, Ph.D.
David Jeon, Ph.D.
Arash Kheradvar, M.D., PhD
Daegyoum Kim, Ph.D. 
Paul Krueger, Ph.D.
David Kuzo, Ph.D.
Christine Lewis, Ph.D.
Dorian Liepmann, Ph.D.
Taly Lindner, Ph.D. 
Laurence Loumes, Ph.D.
Brad Lyon, Ph.D.
David Mittelstein, Ph.D.
Patrice Maheo, Ph.D.
Nathan Martin, Ph.D.
John Meier, Ph.D
Kamran Mohseni, Ph.D.
Matthew Munson, Ph.D.
Michael Ol, Ph.D.
Niema Pahlevan, Ph.D.
Han Park, Ph.D.
Tait Pottebaum, Ph.D.
Edmond Rambod, Ph.D.
Derek Rinderknecht, Ph.D
Matthew Ringuette, Ph.D.
Chris Roh, Ph.D.
Elijah Sansom, Ph.D
Siddhartha Valluri, Ph.D.
Marcel Veismann, Ph.D.
Cong Wang, Ph.D.
Amy Ellen Warncke, Ph.D.
Alexander Weigand, Ph.D.
Christian Willert, Ph.D.
Kathie Williams, Ph.D.
Mehrdad Zarandi, Ph.D. 
Jijie Zhou, Ph.D.
Lavi Zuhal, Ph.D.
Peter Renn, Ph.D.

Visitors

Filip Slezak (MSc, EPFL)
Severin Schumacher (MSc, TUM)
Masoud Beizaie, Ph.D.
Paloma García Guillén (TUM)
Daria Hajimiri
Lilith Kreutzer (HSHL)
Benjamin Mottis (EPFL)
Danny Petrasek, M.D.
Jan Raffel (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Engin Arik, Ph.D
GustavoRoque da Silva Assi, Ph.D
Joshua Adams
Harsha Bhat, Ph.D
Dag Bjerketvedt, Ph.D
David Boyd, Ph.D.
Samuel Bradford, Ph.D
Gerald Buckberg, M.D.
Carlota Castro-Perez, M.S.
Herzl Chai, Ph.D
Se Myong Chang, Ph.D
Christopher Clark, Ph.D
Marie Csete, Ph.D
Isabelle Darolles, Ph.D.
Shmuel Einav, Ph.D.
M. Houman Fekrazad, Ph.D
Maral Gharib, Ph.D
Jacqueline Gish, Ph.D
Malcolm Gorson, Ph.D
Pablo Hermoso-Moreno, M.S.
Jay R. Hove, Ph.D. 
Francisco Huera Huarte, Ph.D
Hossein Jadvar, M.D.
Lee Johnson, Ph.D
Abdollah Khodadoust, Ph.D
Ahmad Khorrami, Ph.D
Demosthenes Kivotides, Ph.D
Dean Lauritzen
In-seop Lee, Ph.D
Ivett Leyva, Ph.D
Luiz Lourenco, Ph.D
M. Mallikarachchi, Ph.D
Christoph Merz
Simha Milo, M.D.
Darius Modarress, Ph.D
Kamran Mohseni, Ph.D
Abbas Moghaddam, PhD
Karen Mulleners, Ph.D
Jay Nadeau, Ph.D
Hassan Nagib, Ph.D
Francisco Pereira, PhD  
Raimondo Pictet
James Polk, Ph.D
Edmond Rambod, Ph.D
Alireza Ramezani, Ph.D
Marianne Razavi, Ph.D
Stephanie Rider
Daniel Rittel, Ph.D
Ignacio Olleros Romero, Ph.D
Sylvie Ronel, Ph.D
Thomas Rösgen, Ph.D
Brian Ross, MD
Nikoo Saber, Ph.D. 
Hiroyasu Saitoh, Ph.D
Charles Sammis, Ph.D
Roman Seele
Robert Selzer, Ph.D
Flavio Suva
Frederic Taugwalder
Alexandra Techet, Ph.D
Ivan Vesely, Ph.D
Tatiana Vinogradova, Ph.D
Kon-Well Wang, Ph.D
Julius Wanner, M.S.
Kerstin Weinberg, Ph.D
Oliver Wild, M.S.
Christian Willert, Ph.D.
Mingming Wu, Ph.D
Steve Vassaux
Roberto Camacho Zenit, Ph.D