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Dr. Sofia Rahiminejad

Technologist

About

Bio

Sofia Rahiminejad received her B.Sc. in Engineering Physics in 2009 from Chalmers University of Technology after that, she interned at Cornell University as a research assistant. She received her M.Sc. double diploma from both Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in 2011 as a part of the Erasmus Mundus master program. She has won two best poster awards at MME in 2012 and 2013, and one nomination for best poster at EuCAP 2015. She defended her PhD in December 2016 and has published over 20 papers. At the moment she has co-invented three patents and was one of the recipients of JPL’s postdoc research day award 2019. She is currently working in the Advanced Optical and Electromechanical Microsystems Group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, USA. Her interests lie in the fields of innovation and microsystems.

Education

  • PhD in Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Gothenburg, Sweden (2016)
  • M.Sc. double diploma in Micro- and Nanotechnology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Chalmers University of technology, (2011)
  • B.Sc in Engineering Physics, Chalmers University of Techology, Sweden (2009)

Experience

Professional Experience

  • Microdevices engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2022–present)
  • Technologist at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2020– 2022)
  • Post-doctoral Scholar at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2017– 2020)
  • Teaching assistant, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2011-2016)
  • Engineer at Gapwaves AB, Gothenburg, Sweden (2017)
  • Research assistant at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2017)
  • Summer Intern, Cornell University, Itacha, USA (2009)
  • Summer Intern, Volvo Cars, Gothenburg, Sweden (2008)

Achievements

Awards & Recognitions

Publications

  1. S. Rahiminejad, A. U. Zaman, E. Pucci, H. Raza, V. Vassilev, S. Haasl, P. Lundgren, P.-S. Kildal, and P. Enoksson, “Micromachined ridge gap waveguide and resonator for millimeter-wave applications,” Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, vol. 186, pp. 264–269, 2012.
  2. S. Rahiminejad, E. Pucci, S. Haasl, and P. Enoksson, “Micromachined Contactless  Pin-Flange Adapter for Robust High-Frequency Measurements,” Journal of Micromachining and Microengineering, vol. 24, no. 8, p. 084004, 2014.
  3. S. Rahiminejad, A. U. Zaman, E. Pucci, S. Haasl, and P. Enoksson, “SU8 Ridge Gap Resonator,” International Journal of Microwave and Wireless technologies. vol. 6, no. 05, pp. 459–465, 2014.
  4. A. M. Saleem, S. Rahiminejad, V. Desmaris, and P. Enoksson, “Carbon nanotubes as base material for fabrication of gap waveguide components,” Sensors Actuators, A: Physical, vol. 224, pp. 163–168, 2015.
  5. S. Rahiminejad, E. Pucci, V. Vassilev, P.-S. Kildal, S. Haasl, and P. Enoksson, “Polymer Gap Adapter for Contactless, Robust, and Fast Measurements at 220–325 GHz,”  Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 160–169, 2016.
  6. S. Rahiminejad, P. Cegielski, M. Abbasi, and P. Enoksson, “ A Four Level Silicon Microstructure Fabrication By DRIE,” Journal of Micromachining and Microengineering, vol. 26, no. 8, p. 084003, 2016.
  7. S. Rahiminejad, A. U. Zaman, S. Haasl, P.-S. Kildal, and P. Enoksson, “Demonstration of a micromachined planar distribution network in gap waveguide technology for a linear slot array antenna at 100 GHz,” Journal of Micromachining and Microengineering, vol. 26, no. 7, p. 074001, 2016.
  8. S. Rahiminejad, Maria Alonso-delPino, Theodore J. Reck, Alejandro Peralta, Robert Lin, Cecile Jung-Kubiak, Goutam Chattopadhyay, "A Low-Loss Silicon MEMS Phase Shifter Operating in the 550-GHz Band," in IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 477-485, Sept. 2021