Mehrdad Lotfi Choobbari

Mehrdad is a postdoctoral researcher at VUB Brussels Photonics Team (VUB). He completed his Ph.D. in the same group and under the supervision of Heidi Ottevaere, within the framework of an MSCA-ITN European project called MONPLAS. During his Ph.D., he worked on developing advanced optical sensors for detecting and analyzing microplastics in drinking water. In his current research, Mehrdad continues to develop novel and compact multimodal optical sensors for monitoring of emerging pollutants in water, such as PFAS, heavy metals, micro- and nano-plastics, etc.

In his free time, Mehrdad likes playing Tar, an Iranian traditional instrument.