Nasim's Curriculum Vitae
Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler School of Engineering at Chapman University, with affiliation in the Physics program. Until 2020, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, working with Prof. Nader Engheta. Prior to that she received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, in 2016. During her Ph.D., she has been member of the Metamaterials and Plasmonics Research Laboratory working with Prof. Andrea Alu, and has been affiliated with The Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at UT-Asutin.
Dr. Mohammadi Estakhri has authored and co-authored more than 70 scientific contributions. Her research broadly focuses on nanophotonic metamaterials and applied electromagnetics, with recent emphasis on computational metamaterials and machine learning for novel flat optical components. She is an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and is part of the editorial advisory boards of APL Photonics and AIP Journal of Applied Physics. She has received several recognitions and funding for her research, including the ‘rising star in EECS’ by Stanford University (2017), and MIT (2018), Caltech’s EAS Young Investigator Lecturer (2019), and NSF-ERI grant (2021). In 2023, she received the Unit Faculty Excellence Award from Fowler school of Engineering.
Nasim Mohammadi Estakhri
Assistant Professor, Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler School of Engineering
Affiliate, Physics, Schmid College of Science
Chapman University
Email: estakhri [at] chapman [dot] edu
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/nasimmohammadiestakhri/
Education
Ph.D. The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, Electrical Engineering - Electromagnetics and Acoustics 2016
M.Sc. University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Electrical Engineering - Communications, Fields and Waves 2011
B.Sc. University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Electrical Engineering – Communications 2007
Professional Career
2020-present: Assistant Professor, TT , Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler School of Engineering , Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA.
2016-2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2011-2016: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
2009-2011: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Selected Honors and Awards
2024: Fletcher Jones Foundation Faculty Fellowship Award
2024: SOARS AWARD, Chapman Leatherby Libraries
2023: Unit Faculty Excellence Award, Fowler School of Engineering, Chapman University.
2023: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation Associate Editor.
2022: Worldwide top 2% of scientists database compiled by Stanford University.
2022: Engineering Research Initiation Fund, National Science Foundation (NSF).
2022: Journal of Applied Physics Editorial Advisory Board.
2022: APL Photonics Editorial Advisory Board.
2021: Worldwide top 2% of scientists database compiled by Stanford University.
2021: Faculty Opportunity Fund, Chapman University.
2021: Grant Writer's Bootcamp, Chapman University.
2020: Worldwide top 2% of scientists database compiled by Stanford University.
2019: Public University of Navarra (UPNA) Research Prize.
2019: APL Photonics Early Career Editorial Advisory Board.
2019: Caltech's Young Investigator Lecturer in Engineering and Applied Science.
2018: Rising Star in EECS, MIT.
2018: DMP Post-Doctoral Travel Award, Division of Materials Physics, American Physical Society.
2017: Rising Star in EECS, Stanford University.
2017: International USNC-URSI Travel Grant.
2016: IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship.
2014: Professional Development Award, Graduate School, The University of Texas at Austin.
2014: MRS Spring Meeting Travel grant, United States Department of Energy.
2014: USNC-URSI Travel Fellowship Grant Award.
2013: George J. Heuer, Jr. Ph.D. Endowed Graduate Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin.
2013: USNC-URSI Travel Fellowship Grant Award.
2013: Honorable Mention: Student Paper Competition, IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation.
2013: Editors’ choice, Physical Review Letters.
2013: Texas Energy Research Challenge Award, Texas Energy Forum.
2012: Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
2011: First Rank, Graduate School, College of Engineering (Fanni), University of Tehran.
2008: Ranked 17th in Communications, 16th in Electronics, 24th in Bioengineering and 33rd in Control Engineering among more than 10,000 participants, Iran National Graduate Examination for Entrance in Universities - Electrical Engineering major.
2002-2006: Talented Student, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran.
2002: Ranked 303rd among more than 400,000 participants, Iran National Matriculation Exam - Mathematics major.
2001: National Bronze Medal, 19th Nationwide Mathematics Olympiad, Iran. Ranked 3rd and Awarded “Bronze Medal” in the 19th Nationwide Mathematics Olympiad among all the high school students in Iran, Honored and Awarded by the Iran's Minister of Education.
Service and Professional Leadership
Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2023-)
Journal of Applied Physics Editorial Advisory Board (2022-).
APL Photonics Editorial Advisory Board (2022-).
APL Photonics Early Career Editorial Advisory Board (2020-2022).
Conference/Meeting Organizer:
CLEO 2024: Nano-Optics and Plasmonics subcommittee
CLEO 2023: Nano-Optics and Plasmonics subcommittee
META 2022: Special session on "Extreme meta-photonics", together with Inigo Liberal
Journal Peer Reviewer:
Science, Physical Review Letters, Nature Photonics, Physical Review X, Nano Letters, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Nature Review Physics, ACS Photonics, Physical Review B, Laser & Photonics Reviews, Physical Review A, Optics Express, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation, Physical Review Applied, Scientific Reports, Optics Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Photonics Research, IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, MRS Proceedings, Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, Journal of Optics, Advance Science, IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology.
Conference Reviewer:
2024 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO, Charlotte, NC, USA,
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO, San Jose, CA, USA,
2019 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Atlanta, Georgia, USA,
2017 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, San Diego, CA, USA,
2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Fajardo, Puerto Rico,
2013 Metamaterials’2013, Bordeaux, France.