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Assistant Professor 08/2010 - Present
Bioengineering Department
Penn State University
Post-doctoral Research Fellow 01/2010 - 08/2010
Department of Plastic Surgery
University of Michigan
Post-doctoral Research Fellow 03/2007 - 12/2009
Neural Engineering Lab (NEL)
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
PhD. in Biomedical Engineering 09/2001 - 0/22007
Organic Electronics and Electroactive Biomaterials Lab
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Michigan
Here is my complete CV
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| Abidian et. al “Interfacing conducting polymer nanotubes with the central nervous system: Chronic neural recording using poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) nanotubes”. Advanced Materials, (2009), 21( 37), 3764. DOI.
10.1002/adma.200900887
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Honors and Awards
- Cover journal Advanced Materials, 21 (37), 2009
- Cover journal Advanced Functional Materials, 19 (4), 2009
- Nominated for Rackham Distinguished Dissertation
Award 2007, The purpose of the awards is to recognize exceptional and
unusually interesting work produced by doctoral students in the last
phase of their graduate work. Up to eight awards will be made.
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship Travel Award 2007, The 3rd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Kohala Coast, HA 2007.
- Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Silver Award 2007, one of
the most prestigious and competitive awards of MRS for graduate
students whose academic achievements and current materials research
display a high level of excellence and distinction. Material Research
Society Spring Meeting 2007, San Francisco, CA.
- Distinguished Achievement Graduate Student Award
2007, College of Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, 2007. Recipients are
chosen by department and program faculty to recognize academic and
personal excellence.
- Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship 2006, one of the
most prestigious and competitive awards at University of Michigan, 2006
for an outstanding student who is completing his/her dissertation.
- Outstanding Overall Poster Award 2006, Macromolecular Science & Engineering Symposium, Ann Arbor, MI, 2006.
- Advanced Materials Wiley-VCH: The most access and popular article in 2006-2007, Conducting polymer nanotubes for controlled drug release, Adv. Mater. 18(4), 2006.
- Travel Grant Award from Gordon Research Conference (GRC), Tilton, NH, 2006.
- Cover Journal Advanced Materials, 18, 4, 2006.
- Travel Grant Award from Neural Prosthesis Workshop , Bethesda, MD, 2005.
- Best Poster Prize , UM-NASA Bioscience and Engineering Institute (UMNBEI), Ann Arbor, MI, 2005.
- Rackham Conference Travel Award , 2003-2007
- Outstanding graduate student , Amirkabir
University of Technology. Ranked 1st among of all alumni of Biomedical
Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran,
Iran (out of 50), 2001
- 1st rank and the highest score in the Ph.D
entrance examination of Biomedical Engineering Department, Amirkabir
University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. (Out of 80 applicants), 1999
- 2nd rank graduate student among of all Msc.
students Biomedical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of
Technology, Tehran, Iran (out of 35).
- Outstanding undergraduate student , AmirKabir
University of Technology. Ranked 1st among of all undergraduate
students of Mechanical Engineering Department, Amir Kabir University of
Technology, Tehran, Iran (out of 430), 1990-1992.
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Contact Information
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219 Hallowell Bldg.
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 856-8093
Email: mabidian@psu.edu
mabidian@engr.psu.edu
mabidian@umich.edu
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