University of Missouri-Kansas city

About

Degrees

• Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2017
• M.S., Mechanical and Process Engineering, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, 2011
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, 2006

Honors and awards

• Early Career Faculty Award (ECFA), UMKC College of Emeritus, 2022
• Funding for Excellence Award Recipient, UMKC, 2020-2021
• Young Investigators Award (DNI) from American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS PRF) worth $110,000, 2020
• Iranian American Academics and Professionals (IAAP) Scholarship Award, 2017
• Best Paper and Presentation Award, College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS), Penn State, 2016
• Howard O. and Jean Beaver Graduate Studies Grant, Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State University, 2015

Selected publications

• H. Honaryar, J. A. LaNasa, R. J. Hickey, Julian C. Shillcock, and Z. Niroobakhsh, "Investigating the Morphological Transitions in an Associative Surfactant Ternary System" Soft Matter, 18, 2611 – 2633, 2022.
• H. Honaryar, J. A. LaNasa, Elisabeth C. Lloyd, R. J. Hickey and Z. Niroobakhsh, ”Fabricating robust constructs with internal nanostructure via liquid-in-liquid 3d printing,” Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2021, 42 (22), 2100445, 2021.
• M. Zhao, Z. Niroobakhsh, J. Lowengrub, and S. Li, “Nonlinear limiting dynamics of a shrinking interface in a Hele-Shaw cell,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 910, 2021.
• Z. Niroobakhsh, J. A. LaNasa, A. Belmonte, and R. J. Hickey, “Rapid stabilization of immiscible fluids using nanostructured interfaces via surfactant association,” Physical Review Letters 122, 178003, 2019.
• Z. Niroobakhsh and A. Belmonte, “Dynamics of a reactive micellar oil-water interface in a flowing liquid column,” J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 261, 111-122, 2018.
• Z. Niroobakhsh, M. Litman, A. Belmonte, “Flow instabilities due to the interfacial formation of surfactant/fatty acid material in a Hele-Shaw cell,” Physical Review E 96, 053102, 2017.