Nima Zarrinbakhsh recently received his PhD in Biological Engineering at the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph in 2014. He received a M.Sc. in Materials Characterization at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2009, and a B.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 2006. His research interests include polymer processing, processing/structure/properties correlation, materials characterization methods, and biopolymers and biocomposites. He now acts as the BDDC lab manager and research program operator.