CV

1. Mahdieh Shojaei Baghini
Stieltjesweg 28
TU Delft, 2628 CK
mahdieh.shojaei.baghini@ieee.org/mahdieh.shojaei.baghini@gmail.com
EDUCATION Master of Science, Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Ma-
terials (3mE) Engineering, TU Delft, Netherlands. Specialisation in Medical Devices
and Bioelectronics.
Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and Communication Engineering First class with
distinction, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India
EXPERIENCE Dispuut Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
September, 2018, Present
• Treasurer of the Study Tour Committee of dispuut AvL, the student society for
the master programs Biomedical Engineering and Biomechanical Design at TU
Delft, Netherlands.
Certified Course Mentor for Johns Hopkins University at Coursera
November, 2016, Present
• Mentor for the course ”Introduction to the Biology of Cancer” conducted by
Johns Hopkins University via Coursera, which deals with cancer mechanisms,
prognosis, diagnosis, treatment and variation. Helping learners understand the
recent developments in oncology and solving their incoming doubts. Selection
was done on the basis of performance and interactions.
Summer Research Intern under the guidance of Prof. Subodh Mhaisalkar
May-July, 2017
Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N), NTU, Singapore
• Worked at the Energy Research Institute (ERI@N) with research focusing on
development and synthesis of perovskites and their applications in solar cells
and LEDs, including device fabrication and characterization.
• This involved synthesis of lead halide based materials for solar cells to check
for stability as well as efficiency, and optimising the synthesis procedures for
the same. This was followed by spin-coated thin film characterisation using
XRD, UV, PL, SCXRD, AFM and solar cell characterisation using solar sim-
ulator. The device fabrication was done step by step including transport layer
deposition, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Most of the quantum dots were prepared at SinBeRISE, NUS, Singapore.
• Attended the ICMAT 2017 conference associated with MRS, Singapore un-
der Symposium U (Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronics Applications) dur-
ing internship duration. Also attended the planery sessions on ”Translational
medicine” as the the youngest attendee.
Summer Research Intern under the guidance of Dr. Abhijit De
May-July, 2016
Tata Memorial Centre - Advanced Centre for Treatment Research and Education in
Cancer (ACTREC), Molecular Functional Imaging Lab, India
• Worked with the IVIS Spectrum Optical Imaging System, setup its software and
developed various 3D FLIT images of mice injected with composite nanoparti-

2. cles encapsulated with fluorescent dye followed by photo-thermal therapy along
with necessary analysis, in-vivo as well as in-vitro .
• Study of synthesis of the nanoparticles through practical observation at NanoBios
Lab, IIT Bombay including characterization using SEM, DLS, spectrophotom-
etry, and laser studies, under the supervision of Prof. Rohit Srivastava.
• The work mentioned above lead to a paper publication as well as listen
below
Technical Ambassador February-March, 2016
e-Prayog Virtual Labs (Electronics), IIT-Bombay, India
• As the technical ambassador of this MHRD initiative I was the head organizer
and technical lead of e-Prayog workshop at SOLVE, Virtual Labs at NITK. Af-
ter bringing together a team of 5 students we conducted a three day workshop
for first year engineering students teaching them the basics of embedded systems
and interfacing of Aurum (using PIC microcontroller) along with conducting
experiments on LEDs, LCDs and timers. Other than embedded systems we
provided an overview of a few analog and control concepts such as PLL and
oscillators along with a brief introduction to pragma codes and running inter-
rupts.
• The workshop was the first independent workshop conducted at NITK without
any club support and received very positive feedback from the participants. On
the completion of the workshop the boards were officially passed on to SOLVE,
NITK to be further used by students for projects. Selection was done based on
performance during previous internship at IIT-Bombay.
Co-founder January-May, 2016
Trashin
• Was a part of the marketing and content development team of Trashin. Trashin
is an NITK incubated start up. The Trashin Android App (beta) in the Google
Play Store, lets people locate the dustbin closest to them. It is a location based
app that rewards users who use dustbins for throwing trash. We were covered
in Campus Diaries as one of the student projects from NITK that are changing
the community.
Summer Research Intern under the guidance of Prof. Dinesh Sharma
May-July, 2015
Wadhwani Electronics Laboratory, IIT-Bombay, India
• Interfaced an LCD and humidity sensor with 8051 micro controller with pro-
gramming in Keil. Around 50 SMD and PTH components were first soldered
onto the bare PT-51 development board. Then the interfacing was performed,
using embedded C as the programming language. Program-board interfacing
was done using Atmel Flip software (RS-232 Serial Communication).
Summer Trainee June-July, 2015
Technophilia, Mumbai, India
• Circuit simulation using Proteus including drawing, layout editing for single,
multi-layer PCBs using Eagle.The course curriculum was developed and certi-
fied by Robotics Computer Applications Institute of USA Aavriti 2015, IIT
Bombay.
Winter Research Intern December 2014
Wadhwani Electronics Laboratory, IIT-Bombay, India
• Developed a counter using 7447 BCD to 7-segment display decoder and, 7490

3. decade and binary counter with soldering performed on a copper board. Inte-
grated it with a receiver-transmitter circuit using an LM234 IC.
• Proposed an extension of the same circuit design for counting the number of
people entering a hall.
PROJECTS Heart-on-Chip September 2018-Ongoing
TU Delft, Netherlands and Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Netherlands
• A project that aims to integrate microfabrication and cell culturing techniques
to develop heart-on-chip models for cardiomyocyte monitoring. Being super-
vised by Dr. Ronal Dekker, EEMCS Faculty at TU Delft and Berend van Meer
at LUMC.
Final Year Thesis, Nanofabrication August-April 2018
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
• Final year thesis concentrated around the development of new organic Carbazole
conductive materials for the purpose of nanofabrication of perovskite solar cells
along with characterization
• The current project is also a proposal that has been submitted to INUP, India
(India Nanoelectronics User Programme), which is under review; for the purpose
of device fabrication
• It is the only wide-interdisciplinary project (between ECE and Chemistry de-
partment) that is currently being carried out by an undergraduate student in
the department.
Function generator February, 2017
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
• Developed a function generator using XR2206 and operational amplifier design
on PCB with amplitude and frequency control using BJT logic and Sallen-Key
filters.
Miniature FM Transmitter December, 2016
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
• Developed and tested a miniaturized transmitter operating at 100 MHz radio
frequency whose signal can be received on any audio device using headphones
in a free band.
e-Yantra Robotics Competition (Initiative by IIT-Bombay and sponsored
through MHRD) National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
December, 2015 - February, 2016
• Among the top 300 out of 5000 teams during the first online test round and
then were among the top 25 in India until Task 2 (involving design and analysis
of the theme)
• Worked in a team of four to program a pizza delivery robot using Atmega2560
microcontroller. The robot calculated the height of the pizza using sharp sensors
and color using color sensors. Then using scanned data configurations delivered
the pizza to the correct house. Line following was performed using PID for
better error control.
• Construction of arm of the robot using 3D printed parts and learnt the design
in Catia which consisted of claws, gears, arms and slots for three servo motors.

4. Bluetooth Robot October 2014
National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
• Developed an autonomous and wireless controlled robot powered by an Atmel’s
AVR series’ micro controller by interfacing a serial Bluetooth module with PC,
micro controller and using an Android Bluetooth App to control robot manoeu-
vring.
HONOURS
AND AWARDS
Holland Scholarship 2018
Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
• One of the 8 recipients of the scholarship at the faculty of 3mE
Indian Engineering Olympiad 2016
• Secured an all India rank of 313 (out of 40,000 students) in the Electronics and
Communication stream.
The IET India Scholarship Award 2016
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
• Was selected for the southern India regional round (among top 25 out of 2500
participants) and presented technical solutions for innovations in rural India.
Indian Engineering Olympiad 2015
• Secured an all India rank of 582 (out of 50,000 students) and a city rank of 7
in Mangalore.
Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE) scholar-
ship 2014
Ministry of Education, Government of India
• Awarded to students who lie in the top 1% in their respective junior college
board examinations
National Level Science Talent Search Examination (NSTSE) 2014
Unified Council India, (ISO 9001:2008)
• Secured an All India Rank (AIR) of 1493 and a state rank (Maharashtra) of 99
along with an AIR of 445 in Physics.
Top Writer 2016-Ongoing
Quora
• Currently a Top Writer for the topic ”Nanotechnology” on Quora
PUBLICATIONS Vats, M.; Mishra, S.K.; Baghini, M.S.; Chauhan, D.S.; Srivastava, R.; De, A.Near
Infrared Fluorescence Imaging in Nano-Therapeutics and Photo-Thermal
Evaluation. Int. J. Mol. Sci., MDPI, Switzerland 2017, 18, 924. (1000+ down-
loads, cited in Elsevier and Springer)
SKILLS MATLAB, Living Image, Visual TCAD, TURBOMOLE, PANalytical, C++, LaTeX,
Octave, LTspice, Magic VLSI
CERTIFI-
CATIONS
Coursera 2016-2017

5. • Johns Hopkins University: Introduction to the Biology of Cancer (with Honors)
• Introduction to Breast Cancer-Yale University
• Organic Solar Cells - Theory and Practice (Technical University of Denmark)
• Introduction to Solar Cells - Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
EdX 2016-2017
• UTokyo003x: Quantum Mechanics of Molecular Structures
• 3.15.3x (MITx): Magnetic Materials and Devices
• 3.15.2x (MITx): Optical Materials and Devices
• 3.15.1x (MITx): Electronic Materials and Devices
WORKSHOPS
AND
CONFERENCES
ATTENDED
International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies
MRS Singapore June, 2017
• One of the largest held conferences on materials, which included 32 symposia.
Also took part in discussions on latest developments on nanomaterials for trans-
lational medicine under symposium AA.
Wadhwani Research Centre for Bioengineering (WRCB), Clinical Day
IIT-Bombay, India October, 2016
• Workshop on latest developments in ”Cancer Precision Medicine” along with
interactions.
Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN), Novel Functional Mate-
rials for Energy Conversion
Department of Chemistry, NITK Surathkal, India December, 2016
• Short Term interactive course by Dr. Prashanth Kamath from University of
Notre Dame with focus on novel nanomaterials.