Arezoo Ardekani

Dr. Arezoo Ardekani is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Head for Faculty Affairs at Purdue University's School of Mechanical Engineering in West Lafayette, Indiana. She holds a Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellowship from MIT and earned her Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California, Irvine, as well as a B.S. from Sharif University of Technology. Her research focuses on fluid dynamics, multiphase flows, non-Newtonian fluids, and microfluidics, with applications in biomedical engineering and sustainable energy.

Dr. Ardekani has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), NSF CAREER Award, and election as an ASME Fellow. Her work spans fundamental studies in rheology and viscoelastic flows to applied research in biofluid dynamics and nanotechnology.

• Education:
  • Ph.D., University of California Irvine, 2009
  • M.S., University of California Irvine, 2005
  • B.S., Sharif University of Technology, 2003
  • Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, 2010
• Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, biomaterials, multiphase flows, microfluidics, and soft matter.
• Labs: Complex Flow Lab

Her recent publications (2023–2025) explore topics like glymphatic transport in the brain, machine learning for microbiota analysis, and monoclonal antibody absorption mechanisms. She has pioneered methods for acoustofluidic nanoparticle characterization and acoustically enhanced filtration systems.