Current Personnel

Matin Golozar is a Biophysics Ph.D. Graduate Student at the University of California in Berkeley. 

      Matin earned his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in 2016 where he worked on the numerical simulation and performance optimization of a magnetorphoretic bio-separation chip for the isolation of circulating tumor cells, red and white blood cells from the peripheral blood. Prior to this, he completed his B.Sc. at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Isfahan University of Technology (Iran). His previous research involved theoretical analysis and investigation of the optimal distribution of wall shear stress in the cardiovascular systems and its effect on the pattern of diameters of blood vessels. Prior to starting his Ph.D., he spent two years as a research fellow in Richard Mathies Group in the Department of Chemistry at UCB, where he worked on the design, development, and fabrication of various compact microfluidic devices for lab automation, analyte detection, and membrane dialysis for rapid solvent removal. 

      Matin is completing his work as a research fellow at Chemistry Department and Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory, where he contributed to the engineering design of the Enceladus Organic Analyzer (EOA) by developing a new state-of-the-art capture plate/chamber to effectively gather and transport plume ice particles as well as microfabrication of capillary electrophoresis glass wafers that are the central processors for bioorganic marker detection in the EOA microfluidic chip.  He has also developed method for the detection and analysis of trace amino acid biomarkers in ancient Antarctic ice and hot spring samples which may be representative of Enceladus and Europa.

Matin is now starting a postdoctoral fellowship working with Prof.J. Kim at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.