Parsa Vafaei
Biomedical engineer · London

From the cell culture hood to the simulation and the code.

I'm Parsa, a biomedical engineer. I have tested new biomaterials on bone cells, helped build a COVID-19 biosensor, modelled blood flow and spinal implants, and written software that reads medical device reports. This site collects that work and what I learn along the way.

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Specimen recordPV-2026
Parsa Vafaei in graduation gown outside the Sir Frederick Mappin Building, University of Sheffield
Field
Biomedical engineering
Trained
MSc, University of Sheffield
BSc, Amirkabir University of Technology
Bench time
19+ months hands-on lab work
Modelling
Abaqus · ANSYS · SolidWorks
Code
Python · SQL · MATLAB
Based
London, UK
What I work on

Four areas, one thread: making medicine work better

Lab & biomaterials

Cell culture, cytotoxicity and bone-forming assays, molecular biology and a COVID-19 biosensor.

Engineering & modelling

Finite element and blood-flow simulation, CAD design, and turning results into 3D and VR.

Data, code & AI

Python tools for images and lab data, SQL databases, and AI checked against human review.

Medical devices

How devices are made safe and brought to patients: risk analysis and market strategy.

The range

Where each project sits

Left to right: wet lab to computational. Top to bottom: close to the patient to fundamental research.

Clinical / device Wet lab · research Computational 010203040506070809101112
  1. 01Zirconium nanosheets for bone repair
  2. 02An electrochemical biosensor for COVID-19
  3. 03Drug response in glioblastoma cells
  4. 04Macrophage polarisation in atherosclerosis
  5. 05Finite element analysis of spinal fixation
  6. 06Blood flow in an aneurysm, in virtual reality
  7. 07Medical device design in SolidWorks
  8. 08X-ray filter toolkit
  9. 09AI analysis of catheter adverse event reports
  10. 10Signal detection agent with a SQL database
  11. 11Fixing a rejected design dossier
  12. 12Bringing an AI recovery app to two markets
Selected work

Featured projects

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Lab & biomaterialsP-01

Zirconium nanosheets for bone repair

A four-month bench study asking whether a zirconium nanomaterial is safe for bone cells, and whether it helps them build bone.

MSc dissertation, University of Sheffield · 2025
Engineering & modellingP-06

Blood flow in an aneurysm, in virtual reality

Simulating blood flow in an aneurysm before and after a stent is placed, then turning the results into a VR scene that clinicians and patients can both understand.

MSc, University of Sheffield · 2025
Data, code & AIP-09

AI analysis of catheter adverse event reports

Using a large language model to read 300 FDA adverse event reports for long-term central venous catheters, and testing how far its answers can be trusted.

Self-directed · 2026
Lab & biomaterialsP-02

An electrochemical biosensor for COVID-19

Fifteen months in a research team developing a sensor that detects COVID-19 by measuring electrical signals, alongside broad day-to-day lab work.

Research Assistant, Motamed Cancer Research Institute · 2021–2022
Writing

Notes from the work

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Contact

Let's talk

I'm happy to hear about roles, collaborations, or questions about any of my projects.