Dr. Mohammad Qasaimeh is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, UAE, and with the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, New York, USA. Dr. Qasaimeh established the Advanced Microfluidics and Microdevices Laboratory (AMMLab) in 2014, and his current research interests include developing microfluidic and MEMS (microelectromechanical system) devices for clinical applications and point-of-care diagnostics.

  Prior to joining NYUAD, Dr. Qasaimeh was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Qasaimeh completed his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2013 from McGill University, where he received several prestigious fellowships and awards including the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholarship, and the FQRNT Researchers Stars Award.

  Dr. Qasaimeh’s research has been published in more than 29 peer-reviewed journals including Nature Communications, Advanced Biosystems, Lab on a Chip, Microsystems & Nanoengineering, and Scientific Reports. Dr. Qasaimeh delivered more than 30 keynote and invited speeches at national and international conferences, and was actively involved in organizing several local and international conferences, including the Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine Symposium (2016 & 2017). Currently, he is serving as a Co-Chair at the NYU Biomedical and Biosystems Conference series. Dr. Qasaimeh is an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports at the Nature Publishing Group, and serving as a Guest Editor in the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine and the MDPI Biosensors Journal.