Mahdi Rezayati Charan received his master’s in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran. At the end of his master's program in 2016, he visited the Microsystems research group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, to fabricate and test PDMS-based microfluidic devices.
After graduation, he worked as a project assistant at the Breast Cancer Research Center to study tumor spheroid formation in 3D-printed arrays.
In 2017, Mahdi returned to the Microsystems research group as a research assistant and developed droplet-based microfluidic to generate hydrogel spheres. The microspheres were later used to optimize a cancer cell isolation device.
In 2018, Mahdi moved to Sweden to obtain a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Lund University. He defended his doctoral thesis, “Characterization and Separation of Suspension Cells by Isoacoustic Focusing,” in 2023. His Ph.D. work focuses on the acoustophoretic motion of cells and their acoustic properties.
In February 2024, Mahdi joined the ePlants group as a Postdoctoral Researcher. His research is centered on plant cell-based living materials.