Niema Pahlevan, Ph.D., USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience

Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair in Engineering and Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Medicine

Dr. Pahlevan joined USC as an Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in 2017. In August 2017 he was also appointed as Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Pahlevan was James Boswell postdoctoral scholar at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and clinical research investigator at Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI).

Dr. Pahlevan received B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Tehran, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California State University, Northridge, and PhD in Bioengineering from Caltech in 2013. He is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award and American Heart Association Career Development Award. In 2022, he was appointed the holder of the Gordon S. Marshall Early Career Chair in Engineering.

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