Physics of Nano Systems
Computation, Information, Organization, Atomistic modeling and simulations of 2D-materialsm, and nanofluidics and water transport
Me and my son.
I completed my Ph.D. in physics at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) in Tehran through its extremely rigorous, broad-based theoretical physics program. After completing my degree with a specialty in computational condensed matter, I was awarded a one- year, post-doctoral position with my institute based on my exceptional achievements as a graduate student. Upon completion, I took an assistant professor position at the Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University (SRTTU) in Tehran, where I taught & conducted research for three years. In 2012, I won the prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship to pursue my research full-time at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. My successful research during the fellowship led to a two-year research associate position. The focus of my research is the design of new materials and their properties using modeling and simulation.
Currently, we are working toward the development of a detailed model of the thermo-electro-mechanical properties of carbon nanostructures as well as the Nanofluidics properties of graphene nanochannels. This includes analytical calculations for modeling the interaction between graphene and substrate and the scanning tunneling microscopy tip. In order to validate my analytical theories, the simulation tools I most often use are molecular mechanics and electronic structure packages based on both molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods. I am also familiar with density functional theory, and have developed in-house codes to calculate physical properties using Monte Carlo methods. Ultimately, my goal is to design new materials with ideally-tuned thermo-electro-mechanical properties via environmental manipulation of pristine graphene and chemically-functionalized graphene and design nanofiltration devices based on graphene layers.
Some of what I know about science and computational nanoscience and their applications are in my book.
Our scientific interests are nanofluidics, thermal and mechanical properties of carbon-based two-dimensional membranes. Our aims are to study physical properties of two-dimensional membranes and, nanostructured materials as well as ion-bombardment techniques and corresponding modelling and simulations. We are interested in physics of porous 2D-materials, and venture into new areas of application of 2D atomic thin materials for nanofluidics and water desalination.
NEEK-AMAL's EXPERIENCE
Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University TEHRAN
Group Leader, Professor of physics, Present
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Visiting researcher, Sept. 2018, 2019, Present Dresden, Germany
University of Manchester MANCHESTER, UK
Visiting researcher, Sept. 2015, Jan. 2016, Jan. 2017, May 2017,2019,2020, Present
University of Arkansas FAYETTEVILLE, AR,USA
Visiting Scholar, March 2014, January 2015
University of Antwerp ANTWERPEN, BELGIUM
Visiting researcher July-Sept 2008-2012& 2014-2017, Present
University of Antwerp ANTWERPEN, BELGIUM
Marie Curie IIF Fellowship, 2012-2014
University of Nijmegen NIJMEGEN, THE NETHERLANDS
Visiting researcher, Sept 2013
Department of Physics, Institute for Studies in Fundamental Science IPM, TEHRAN
Research Associate, PostDoc, 2008-2009
SISSA TRIESTE, ITALY
Visiting researcher, May-Sept 2007
Our ultimate aims
We hope that our researches in Shahid Rajaee University will situate Iran in a better living conditions because of getting very advance position within the field of theory of gas/liquid transport through ultrathin porous membranes which are useful for water desalination purposes.
Group members
Dr. Somayeh Ahmadkhani
(PostDoc)
Sabikeh Ghasemi
(Joint PhD candidate, University of Damghan)
Masoumeh Alihosseini
(Joint PhD candidate, University of Zanjan)
Dr. Nasim Hassani
(PostDoc)
Fahim Faraji
(Joint PhD candidate, University of Antwerp)
Farzaneh Peymanirad (Joint PhD candidate)
Dr. Zohreh Javdani
(PostDoc)
Atieh Movafegh
(MSC student)
Dr. Hossein Jajali
(Guest researcher)
Mahta Asadi
(MSC student)
Iman Ahmadabadi (Joint researcher, University of Maryland)
Dr. Mahyar Dehdoust (Guest researcher, University of Tehran)
Dr. Rebeca Holanda (Joint researcher, Warsaw, Poland)
Nano Physics Lab (for education purposes)
COURSES TAUGHT
§ College Physics I, Classical Mechanics
§ College Physics II, Electricity & Magnetism
§ Classical Thermodynamics
§ Quantum Physics
§ Mathematical Methods for Physics
§ Special Topics in Condensed Matter Physics
§ Solid State Physics
§ Optics: Enrollment
§ Statistical Mechanics
§ Classical Electrodynamics
§ Computational Nanoscience
§ Computational Physics
GRADUATE STUDENTS
§ M. Dehdoust, Doctoral candidate, completed (Aug) 2021.
§ Hossein Jalali, Doctoral candidate, completed (Dec) 2020.
§ Hossein Ghorbanfekr, Doctoral candidate, completed (June) 2019.
§ Cavalcanti Holanda Rebecca, Doctoral candidate, completed 2018.
§ Erfan Lotfi, Doctoral candidate, completed 2017.
§ Mario Sobrino Fernandez, Doctoral candidate, completed 2016.
§ Sandeep Singh Kumar, Doctoral candidate, completed 2014.
§ Alireza Rajabpour, Doctoral candidate, completed 2013.
§ Leila Garmabdari, Masters candidate, completed 2016.
§ Hossein Jalali, Masters candidate, completed 2016.
§ Sepideh Maleki, Masters candidate, completed 2013.
§ Farzaneh Peymanirad, Masters candidate, completed 2015.
§ Fatemeh Keshavarznasab, Masters candidate, completed 2015.
§ Donya Taherkhani, Masters candidate, completed 2013.
§ Leila Rajabi, Masters candidate, completed 2013.
§ Abbas Sadeghi, Masters candidate, completed 2013.
§ Sara Kerdegari, Masters candidate, completed 2013.
§ Mohammad Jamali, Masters candidate, completed 2013.
§ Sabikeh Ghasemi, Masters candidate, completed 2012.
§ S. Mozghan Seied Talebi, Masters candidate, completed 2012.
§ Maryam Shafiee, Masters candidate, completed 2012.
§ Fatemeh Sadeghi, Masters candidate, completed 2012.
§ Masoud Ghasemi, Masters candidate, completed 2009.
Awards and honors
2012 Marie Curie grant (European Commission)
2013 BOF (The University Research Fund, University of Antwerp)
2015 BOF (The University Research Fund, University of Antwerp)
2015 Iran top physics researcher award (given by President Hassan Rouhani)
2015 FWO (The Research Foundation – Flanders, Belgium)
2015 ISEF (Iran Science Elites Foundation)
2016 INSF (Iran National Science Foundation)
2017 ISEF (Iran Science Elites Foundation)
2016 Sobuti-khajepour Prize, (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences)
2019 ISEF (Iran Science Elites Foundation)
2019 3rd rank in nanoscience research, Iran
2020 INSF (Iran National Science Foundation)
2020 ISEF (Iran Science Elites Foundation)
PRESENTATIONS,
§ Invited speaker: Workshop on Density Functional Theory, Isfehan, Iran (Dec. 2008).
§ Invited speaker: Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, Ahvaz, Iran (5-9 July 2008).
§ Poster: 32nd Symposium of Dynamical Properties of Solids, Antwerp, Belgium (17-23 Sep. 2009).
§ Poster: Spring College on Computational Nano-Science, ICTP, Italy (17-28 May 2010).
§ Invited speaker: 17th Annual IASBS Meeting on Condensed Matter Physics, Zanjan, Iran (May 2011).
§ Poster: Graphene 2012, Brussels, Belgium (10-13 April 2012).
§ Invited speaker: Conference on Graphene Nanostructures, Antwerp, Belgium (May 2013).
§ Poster: Graphene Week 2013, Chemnitz, Germany (June 2013).
§ Talk, APS March Meeting 2014, Denver, Colorado, USA (2014).
§ Poster: Graphene Week 2014, Gutenberg, Sweden (June 2014).
§ Poster: Strain engineering of graphene, Zurich, Switzerland (Jul 2014).
§ Invited Talk, Iran Society of Physics, Computational Physics Workshop, University of Tehran 2019.
§ Invited Speaker ICNS8, Sharif University, Nov, 2020 (online event)
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Collaborators
The group works in collaborations with the experimental groups at the University of Manchester, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Pennsylvania and also has numerous external coworkers in Iran, UK, USA, Germany and Belgium.
