| Academic Education |
| 2018 - 2023 | Habilitation, Venia legendi: Biomaterials, Faculty of Engineering Science, University of Bayreuth. Topic: Development of heterogeneous structures for tissue engineering applications: from processing to cell interactions |
| 2009 - 2013 | Ph.D. Biomaterials. Department of Materials Science, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran |
| 2006 - 2009 | M.Sc. Materials Science and Engineering (Materials Characterization & Selection). Department of Materials Science, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran |
| 2002 - 2006 | B.Sc. Materials Science and Engineering (Industrial metallurgy). Department of Materials Science, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran |
| Employment | |
| Since Oct. 2025 | Team Leader of Biointelligent Production and Systems at Department of Pharma and Bioproduction Technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Stuttgart |
| Since Oct. 2025 | Professor “Engineering of Biointelligent System”, Joint position at University of Hohenheim and Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Stuttgart |
| 01/2024 - 09/2025 | Privatdozentin, UBT |
| 04/2017-09/2025 | Leader of the research group “Biomaterials for Tissue Regeneration”, Department of Biomaterials, UBT, Bayreuth, Germany |
| 2014 - 03/2017 | Postdoctoral Associate, WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Research group of Prof. Ali Khademhosseini |
| 2013 - 2014 | Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital of Düsseldorf and German Textile Research Institute North-West (DTNW), Krefeld, Germany, |
| 2012 - 2013 | DAAD Fellow, Institute of Anatomy, University Hospital of Essen |
| 2012 - 2013 | Research Assistant, German Textile Research Institute North-West (DTNW), Krefeld, Germany |
| Academic Engagement and Membership |
| Sep. 2024 | Chair of the Session: TRR-225 Symposium, 8th China-Europe Symposium on Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine (CESB2024) |
| July 24 | Organizer of the Summer School CRC/SFB-TRR225, UBT |
| Juni 24 | Chair of the Session: From bioprinting towards functional tissues (SFB/TRR 225), at the 1st International Conference of the Würzburg Initiative 3R (WI3R) 2024, Würzburg |
| Since 2023 | Member of Innovative Women in Germany |
| 2023-2026 | Member of the Equality board, CRC/SFB-TRR225 |
| 2022-2025 | Member of Bayreuth Graduate School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, BayNAT |
| 2019-2023 | Mentor Online-Mentoring-Programm CyberMentor for schoolgirls in STEM |
| Since 2019 | Member of TERMIS (Tissue Engineering International & Regenerative Medicine Society) |
| May 2019 | Co-Chair of the session, TERMIS |
| 2019-2025 | Member of ACS (American Chemical Society) |
| Since 2018 | Member of DGM (German Materials Society) |
| 2018-2024 | Member of the Elite study program Macromolecular Science, UBT |
| 2018-2022 | Member of the Bayreuth-Melbourne Colloid/Polymer Network, UBT |
| Since 2021 | Expert Reviewer of funding agencies worldwide such as: |
| *German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| *Swiss National Science Foundation, Sinergia funding instrument (SNSF, Switzerland) |
| *Wellcome Foundation (UK) |
| *Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD, Austria) |
| *New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF, Canada) |
| *Ontario Agri-Food Research Initiative Research Program, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA, Canada) |
| *Dutch Research Council, Open Competition Domain Science (NWO, Netherlands) |
| *National Science Center (SONATINA-7, Poland). |
| Since 2014 | Reviewer of scientific journals such as Science Advances, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Communication, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Biomaterials, Nano Letters, Small, Biofabrication, Advanced Healthcare Materials, etc. |
| Prizes and Awards | |
| 2024 | Travel Grant from Aurora Scientific for attending the BioRob 2024, Heidelberg |
| 2024 | Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) Visiting Fellowship (women and gender diverse), University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 2024 | Travel Grant from UBT for attending the Australian Polymer Symposium (APS) |
| 2022 | SICCA- Research Promotion Award, Association of German Ophthalmologists, Berlin |
| 2022 | Open Access, Equal Opportunities, UBT |
| 2019 | IC Prize 2019; International Club, UBT |
| 2019 | Travel Grant (TERMIS, ESB, EMBS, E-MRS, MRS) |
| 2018 | Nomination, Junges Kolleg Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, UBT |
| 2015 | Travel grant, visit of Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Division of Health Sciences and Technology, MIT, USA. Funded by Tohoku University |
| 2015 | Winner of Falling Walls Lab, Sendai, and Finalist of Falling Walls Lab Berlin. |
| 2013 | SICCA- Research Promotion Award, Association of German Ophthalmologists |
| 2011 - 2012 | DAAD Scholarship, Institute of Anatomy, University Hospital of Essen, Host: Prof. Süleyman Ergün |
| 2011 - 2012 | National sabbatical leave fellowship, Iranian Ministry of Science and Education, Iran |
