Rate My Professor Ali Bagheri

Ali Bagheri is a Lecturer in Chemistry in the School of Science and Technology at the University of New England. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales in 2018 as part of the Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design and the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine under the mentorship of Dr. May Lim and Prof. Cyrille Boyer. Following his PhD, Bagheri served as a Research Fellow in the Polymer Chemistry group at the University of Auckland. In his current position at UNE, his research specializes in Polymer Chemistry, with a focus on developing visible light-controlled radical polymerization and stimuli-responsive polymeric materials for drug delivery and 3D printing applications. His primary research areas include 3D printing and polymer chemistry, emphasizing techniques such as oxygen-tolerant PET-RAFT polymerization under visible LEDs to fabricate advanced polymeric structures for biomedical applications.

Bagheri has produced significant publications in the field. Key works include "Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerization: From Polymer Network Synthesis to 3D Printing" (Advanced Science, 2021, with Christopher M. Fellows and Cyrille Boyer); "A Versatile 3D and 4D Printing System through Photocontrolled RAFT Polymerization" (Angewandte Chemie, 2019); "Oxygen Tolerant PET-RAFT Facilitated 3D Printing of Polymeric Materials under Visible LEDs" (ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2020); "Photopolymerization in 3D Printing" (ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2019); "Visible Light-Induced Growth of Polymer Networks" (ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2019); and "Synthesis of Light-Responsive Pyrene-Based Polymer Nanoparticles via Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly" (Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2019). Earlier contributions encompass surface functionalization of upconversion nanoparticles using visible light-mediated polymerization (Polymer, 2018), nitric oxide-loaded antimicrobial polymers (ACS Macro Letters, 2018), and controlled direct growth of polymer shells on nanoparticles (Macromolecules, 2017). At UNE, he collaborates with Dr. Brendan Wilkinson, Associate Professor Chris Fellows, and Professor Trevor Brown on macromolecular chemistry for drug delivery, 3D printing advanced materials for healthcare, controlled polymerization, supramolecular self-assembly, and cereal food properties. He supervises honours projects on 3D printing of drug delivery systems for personalized medicine.