Dr Majid Malboubi BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA

Dr Majid Malboubi

Dubai Campus
Head of Quality Assurance
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Contact details

Email
m.malboubi@bham.ac.uk
Address
University 麻豆精选 Dubai
Dubai International Academic City
PO Box 341799
Dubai, UAE

Dr Majid Malboubi is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering.

Inspired by the workings of nature, Dr Malboubi applies the principles of mechanics and design micro-tools to unravel the physics underlying cellular processes and to understand how cells interact with their surroundings. Dr Malboubi completed his PhD at the University 麻豆精选 and worked on the interaction of biological membranes with solid substrates, and published several articles on this subject, as well as a book (Gigaseal formation in patch clamping, Springer, 2014).

Upon moving to the London Centre of Nanotechnology at UCL, Dr Malboubi worked on the poroelasticity and pressure propagation in cells to explain cells’ ability to sustain transient and prolonged pressure gradients across their cytoplasm in response to extrinsic and intrinsic mechanical stresses. Dr Malboubi also developed several microfluidic devices for cancer metastasis and drug screening. Subsequently, Dr Malboubi moved to the University of Oxford to investigate the effects of mechanical loadings, such as compression or stretch on neural electrophysiological responses and the ability of neurons to fire action potentials after trauma.

Qualifications

  • 2019 – 2021 - Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, University 麻豆精选
  • 2020 - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • 2007 – 2011 - PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University 麻豆精选

Biography

  • 02/2020 – Present          Head of Quality Assurance, University 麻豆精选 Dubai
  • 06/2018 – Present          Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University 麻豆精选
  • 05/2016 – 05/2018         Researcher Co-Investigator, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
  • 07/2014 – 05/2016         Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford
  • 10/2011 – 07/2014         Postdoctoral Researcher,London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London

Teaching

  • Mechanics
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Energy Transfer and Thermodynamics
  • Mechanical Design
  • Manufacturing
  • Mechanics Laboratory
  • Fluid Mechanics Laboratory

Research

  • Gigaseal formation
  • Microfluidics
  • Cell and tissue mechanics
  • Substrate-Membrane interactions
  • 3D Printing

Funding

EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards. Electrophysiological-mechanical coupled pulses in neural membranes: a new paradigm for clinical therapy of SCI and TBI (NeuroPulse), £991,283, [EP/N020987/1], Co-Investigator.

Other activities

Memberships

  • Member of Advance HE
  • Member of Biophysical Society
  • Member of International Association of Engineers
  • Member of The Marine Biological Association (2016 – 2018)
  • Member of The Royal Microscopical Society (2010 – 2016)

Reviewer

  • Member of Topical Advisory Panel of Micromachines journal

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Malboubi, M & Jiang, K 2014, . Springer.

Article

Malboubi, M, Jerusalem , A & Bianchi, F 2019, '', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

Malboubi, M, Jerusalem , A & Contera, S 2019, '', Acta Biomaterialia.

Malboubi, M, Jerusalem, A & Bianchi, F 2019, '', Medical Engineering & Physics.

Malboubi, M, Bianchi, F & Jerusalem, A 2019, '', Journal of Neuroscience Research.

Malboubi, M 2018, '', Developmental Cell.

Malboubi, M 2018, '', Stem Cell Research.

Malboubi, M, Gu, Y & Jiang, K 2011, '', Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 88, no. 8, pp. 2666-2670.

Mohammadkhani, A, Malboubi, M, Anthony, C & Jiang, K 2011, '', Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 88, no. 8, pp. 2687-2690.

Malboubi, M, Gu, Y & Jiang, K 2011, '', Nanoscale Research Letters, vol. 6, pp. 401.

Chapter

Malboubi, M, Charras, G, Parsons, M & Jayo, A 2018, . in Cell Migration . Springer.

Malboubi, M & Jiang, K 2014, . in SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. 9783642391279 edn, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, no. 9783642391279, Springer Verlag, pp. 3-16.

Malboubi, M & Jiang, K 2014, . in SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. 9783642391279 edn, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, no. 9783642391279, Springer Verlag, pp. 29-47.

Malboubi, M & Jiang, K 2014, . in SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. 9783642391279 edn, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology, no. 9783642391279, Springer Verlag, pp. 75-94.

Special issue

Malboubi, M, Jayo, A, Parsons, M & Charras, G 2015, '', Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 144, pp. 42-45.