Postdoctoral Fellow
Biography
Babak joined Ethier lab in January of 2020, and he is currently a BrightFocus postdoctoral fellow at Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. He received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Delaware, Newark DE, USA, in Dec of 2019, where he studied tendon damage mechanics, nonlinear inelasticity, and mechano-structural analysis at Professor Dawn Elliott’s lab– dissertation titled “Analysis and Modeling of Inelasticity in Tendon: Viscoelasticity, Plastic Deformation, and Damage”. Babak is experienced in designing and conducting experimental procedures for tissue mechanics analysis, continuum mechanics modeling/finite element analysis, and three-dimensional microstructural analysis using SBF-SEM. Babak also received a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2014. He is originally from Tabriz, Iran.
Research:
- Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of optic nerve head remodeling in glaucoma optic neuropathy.
- The role of active iris biomechanics in glaucoma.
Fun Fact:
Babak is a professional musician, and he plays Qopuz (an Azerbaijani string instrument), watch Babak on stage with the Dalgha music group. He was a member of Iran’s national astronomy olympiads team, and he won a bronze medal at the international astronomy and astrophysics olympiads in Thailand (IOAA 2007).
Linkedin Twitter:@BabakNSafa 
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