# Pirouz Kavehpour

PROFESSOR
MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
BIOENGINEERING

Email: pirouz@seas.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-6494
Fax:

Websites

- Complex Fluids & Interfacial Physics Laboratory

##### RESEARCH AND INTERESTS

- Biofluids
- Microfluids
- Heat Transfer
- Artificial organ
- Drug delivery
- Cardiovascular System
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Glymphatic system

##### NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wUdo1fEAAAAJ

##### IN THE NEWS

- UCLA Professor Leading Team to Develop Breathalyzer-Like Tool for Rapid COVID-19 Test | NBC News
- UCLA researchers develop Breathalyzer-like diagnostic tool to test for COVID-19 | KTLA
- Team to develop breathalyzer-like diagnostic test for COVID-19 | Science Blog

##### EDUCATION

- BS, Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 1990
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Rhode Island, 1998
- PhD, Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2003

##### AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

- Surface & Science Scholarship, University of Rhode Island, 1995-1998
- Winner of Gallery of Fluids Motion, APS-DFD, Tampa, FL, 2006
- Army Young Investigator Award (YIP), 2007
- Winner of Gallery of Fluids Motion, APS-DFD, Minneapolis, MN, 2009
- L. E. Scriven Young Investigator award, the International Society of Coating Science, 2010.
- Invited visiting professor, University of Paris 7, 2010
- Visiting professor, University of Paris 7, 2013
- Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, 2015
- Fellow, American Physical Society, 2023