Staff Fellow
US Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Maziar Kakhi obtained his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1990 and his Ph.D. in 1994 from Imperial College, University of London (UK). He has over eleven years of industrial experience in the automotive and process/chemical engineering sectors (based in Austria and Germany respectively), in areas related to combustion, complex fluid flow analysis, chemical reaction engineering and software development. Since 2005 he has been working at the FDA as a principal investigator focusing on the application of mathematical modeling techniques in areas related to the hydrodynamics in dissolution apparatuses, fluid dynamics of inhalation devices, IVIVC modeling, statistical sampling methods for large sample sizes and advanced manufacturing. He has also worked with the Division of Biopharmaceutics as a primary and secondary reviewer.