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Principal Investigator

Maral Mousavi

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California

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Education

B.S. in Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology (2006-2010)


M.S. in Chemistry, University of Minnesota (2011-2012)

Advisor: Prof. Philippe Bühlmann
Thesis: Development of Small Volume Detection with Fluorous-Phase Ion-Selective Electrodes


PhD. in Chemistry, University of Minnesota (2012-2016)

Advisor: Prof. Philippe Bühlmann
Dissertation: Electrochemical Devices for Sensing and Energy Storage


Postdoctoral Studies, Harvard University (2016-2019)

Advisor: Prof. George Whitesides
Research Area: Point-of-care Diagnostics for the Developing World

 

 


Maral Mousavi joined the department of biomedical engineering at USC in 2019 as an assistant professor.

Maral’s research experiences and interests span from point-of-care diagnostics, to electrochemical sensors, wearable devices, neural probes, and tools for precision medicine. She received her B.S. from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. She completed her PhD studies in 2016 at the University of Minnesota, under advisement of Prof. Philippe Buhlmann, who is one of the world leaders in supramolecular electrochemical ion sensing. In her doctorate studies, she worked on electrochemical devices for sensing and energy storage, and use of fluorous compounds as novel materials for improving selectivity of potentiometric sensors. From 2016-2019, Maral was a postdoctoral fellow in the research group of Prof. George Whitesides at Harvard University, and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, working on affordable diagnostic devices to make healthcare and analysis accessible to all.

Maral is the recipient of NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, Powell Research Award, Zumberge Diversity and Inclusion Research Award, the Grand Prize for the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Research Competition, the University of Minnesota Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Graham N. Gleysteen Fellowship for Academic Excellence, and two Graduate Student Research Awards from Eastern Analytical Symposium, and Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry.


HONORS AND AWARDS

  • NIH New Innovator Research Award (DP2), 2022

  • Institutional Nominee from USC for the Johnson & Johnson, Women in STEM2D Scholar Award, 2022

  • Zumberge Research Coordination & Team Building (RCTB) Award, 2022

  • Zumberge Diversity and Inclusion Research Award, 2022

  • Institutional Nominee from USC for the Moore Foundation Inventor Fellow Award, 2021

  • Junior Faculty Research Award, Powell Foundation, 2021

  • USC Provost Strategic Research Award, 2021

  • Winner of the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition (MEPC), Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, 2021

  • 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, 2021

  • Invited Speaker on Mental Health in Graduate School, American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2020

  • Runner-up for the 2018 Metrohm Young Chemist Award, 2018

  • Finalist in Harvard Physical Sciences and Engineering Accelerator Award, 2018

  • Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for outstanding research, University of Minnesota, 2015

  • Travel award from the Society for Electro-Analytical Chemistry to present research at the Conference of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chicago, IL, 2014

  • Eastern Analytical Symposium Graduate Student Research Award, 2014

  • Graham N. Gleysteen Fellowship for Academic Excellence in Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 2013

  • Distinguished Instructor Award from Ministry of Education for outstanding service and teaching, Iran, 2009

  • Honorary admission to Sharif University of Technology (bypassed the required nationwide exam for admission to universities in Iran), 2006

  • Gold medal winner of the 15th National High School Chemistry Olympiad, Iran, 2005

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