Dr. Afshin Goharzadeh is Associate Professor at Khalifa University (KU) in Abu Dhabi (UAE). He holds an MSc in Applied Physics and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Le Havre in France (2001). After a Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI) in Bremen (Germany), he joined the Petroleum Institute (Currently known as Khalifa University) in Abu Dhabi as Assistant Professor (2005). His research projects have been funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG-German Research Foundation) in MPI and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in KU. He coordinated several international research projects with the University of Maryland and Rice University (USA), Indian Institute of Technology in Madras (INDIA) and Tokyo University in (JAPAN). His research focuses on experimental characterizations of complex fluid flow such as Laminar-Turbulent transition in rotating fluids, multiphase flows, fluid-porous interactions and asphaltene deposition in microfluidic models.