Research

  Life at micro scale:

Image credit: Salek, M.M., Carrara, F. Gorick, G. and Stocker, R.

• Bacterial chemotaxis: chemotactic cell sorting, design of cell sorters (highly applicable to other chemotactic cells such as spermatozoa)

Salek, Carrara, et al., Nature Com. 2019

• Bacterial turbulence: collective dynamics, understanding of bacterial interaction and vortical structures
• Bacterial biofilms: biofilm response to local fluid flow changes, antibiotic susceptibility, control and eradicating

Salek et al., ABME, 2012; Salek et al., Biofouling, 2009

Microfluidics:

• Microtechnology: microfabrication, design and development of novel devices and platforms. Particular attention to design of new microfluidic devices to study transport at micro scale under well controlled environment conditions.

Fluid Mechanics:

• Fundamental perspectives in Fluid mechanics: unsteady hydrodynamics, vortex formation (both experimental and computational techniques).
• Biofluidics: flow recirculation, physiologically relevant fluid flows

• Computational Fluid Dynamics: flow simulation in complex geometries and optimization, biomedical devices

Salek et al., ABME, 2012; Salek and Martinuzzi, 2010 ISBN: 978-953-307-153-4