Rate My Professor Hadi Mohammadi

Dr. Hadi Mohammadi is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus, with an additional appointment as Associate Member in the Department of Surgery at UBC’s Vancouver campus. He holds a BASc in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics with honors and an MASc in Mechanical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. He earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering specializing in cardiovascular engineering and biomaterials from Western University in London, Ontario. Following his doctorate, he completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Human Performance Lab in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary, focusing on connective tissues mechanobiology, and at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine in the Department of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School, working on the mechanics of atherosclerotic plaque and its stability.

Dr. Mohammadi’s primary research centers on the study, design, development, and fabrication of prosthetic heart valves. He established the Heart Valve Performance Laboratory at UBC Okanagan in 2013, the only such facility in Canada dedicated to pioneering new generations of prosthetic heart valves. The laboratory collaborates with cardiologists and surgeons at UBC Vancouver and Kelowna General Hospital. His broader research interests include linear and nonlinear mechanical vibrations, finite element methods, cardiovascular engineering and technology, atherosclerosis, articular cartilage mechanobiology and osteoarthritis, cellular and molecular biomechanics, and mechanical vibrations on human performance. He teaches courses such as Dynamics, Mechanical Vibrations, Biomedical Engineering, Tissue Mechanics, Computational Biomechanics, and Finite Element Methods. Dr. Mohammadi is a licensed professional engineer in Alberta and British Columbia and has received grants from NSERC and Mitacs. He has developed synthetic platforms for simulating cardiovascular surgeries and maintains active projects in areas including hand tremor attenuation for Parkinson’s disease and soft robotics applications.