Faculty and Staff - Alireza S. Sarvestani, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor 
, Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS)
206 Boardman Hall
University of Maine
Orono, Maine 04469-5711
Phone: (207) 581-3657
Fax: (207) 581-2379
Email: alireza dot sarvestani at umit dot maine dot edu
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Education:
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2005 - M.Sc., Civil Engineering
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 1999 - B.Sc., Civil Engineering
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 1997
Research Interests:
Cell biomechanics, soft matter and biological physics, mechanics of polymers, molecular modeling of polymer based nanocomposites, solid mechanics, constitutive modeling of solid heterogeneous materials
Teaching:
- MEE 230 Thermodynamics I
- MEE 270 Dynamics
- MEE 320 Materials Science & Engineering
- MEE 557 Continuum Mechanics
- MEE 697 Tissue Engineering
Selected Publications:
- Sarvestani, A.S., 2011. A model for cell motility on soft bio-adhesive substrates. Journal of Biomechanics 44, 755-788.
- Sarvestani, A.S., 2011. Specific adhesion of vesicles to compliant bio-adhesive substrates. International Journal of Solids and Structures 48, 388-395.
- Sarvestani, A.S., 2010. Compliance of bio-adhesive substrates controls the kinetics of membrane-substrate association. Journal of Theoretical Biology 266, 516-521.
- Sarvestani, A.S., 2010. Cell adhesion on ligand gradient substrates: a thermodynamic study. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 105, 172-183.
- Sarvestani, A.S., 2008. Modeling the solid-like behavior of entangled polymer nanocomposites at low frequency regimes. European Polymer Journal 44, 263-269.
- Sarvestani, A.S., Picu, C.R., 2004. Network model for viscoelastic behavior of polymer nanocomposites. Polymer 45, 7779-7790.