Milad Abolhasani

Bio

Milad Abolhasani is the ALCOA Professor and a University Faculty Scholar in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University, where he also serves as Director of the Graduate Program. Additionally, he leads as the Director of Accelerated Technologies for NC State’s pioneering Integrative Sciences Initiative, driving next-generation innovation in science and technology. Dr. Abolhasani holds a B.Sc. (2008) and M.A.Sc. (2010) in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and the University of British Columbia, respectively, and earned his Ph.D. (2014) from the University of Toronto, with a cross-disciplinary focus encompassing Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering. Prior to joining NC State University in 2016, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT (2014-2016).

Dr. Abolhasani leads a dynamic and interdisciplinary research team dedicated to revolutionizing materials science and chemistry through the development of Self-Driving Fluidic Labs—autonomous robotic experimentation platforms for the accelerated discovery and scalable manufacturing of advanced functional materials and molecules.

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Research interests: flow chemistry, microfluidics, microscope technologies for energy and environment, continuous nano-manufacturing, microscope transport phenomena

Education

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology (2008)
M.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia (2010)
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto (2014)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, MIT (2016)