AAAR 37th Annual Conference October 14 - October 18, 2019 Oregon Convention Center Portland, Oregon, USA
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Mehdi A. Torkmahalleh, Assistant Professor at Nazarbayev University, Seeking a Faculty Position at the Rank of Assistant/Associate Professor
MEHDI AMOUEI TORKMAHALLEH, Chemical and Aerosol Research Team, Nazarbayev University
Abstract Number: 852 Working Group: Meet the Job Seekers
Abstract I am currently an assistant professor in Chemical and Materials Engineering at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and have more than 6 years of experiences as an assistant professor and published more than 30 papers (with H-index 11 in Scopus). I published more than 15 papers in prestigious journals including Q1 ranking in 2017-2018. I have also several teaching experiences and grant writing and served in different departmental and school committees. So far, I could obtain more than 150K USD grant. The cooking in residential or commercial kitchens and diesel engine emissions in highway and city traffic zones are the major producers of the UFPs, indoors and outdoors, respectively. Some epidemiological studies revealed associations between exposure to cooking fumes and diesel engine exhaust, and lung cancer. Several clinical exposure studies are available in the literature that investigated the effect of acute exposure to cooking and traffic fumes on human health. Several animal studies conducted in the literature addressed the translocation of different types of nanoparticles to the extra-pulmonary organs such as cardiovascular and nervous systems, but yet discrepancies exist in the literature with respect to animal studies. My next five years research goal is to study the impact of UFPs from different sources particularly cooking and traffic on human brain through clinical, animal and in-vitro studies to better understand the underlying mechanisms for the translocation of the nanoparticles to human brain. The brain activities during and after exposure to UFPs are compared with what has been observed for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer and Parkinson. My recent and preliminary studies (Neurotoxicology 2019. 74:149-161), showed that exposure to aerosol from cooking using electric stove changes the human brain wave pattern. Please join my talk at Session 3 Room A 106: Tuesday, 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM Paper Number: 3.AD.4.