Amir Haji-Akbari Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Engineering Quad A027 Princeton, NJ 08544 USA Work Phone: (609) 258-5413 Fax : (609) 258-2011 Cell Phone: (734) 239-2241 E-mail : [email protected] URL: http://scholar.princeton.edu/hajakbar/ Research Interests • Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. • Advanced Molecular Simulation Techniques. • Self-assembly of Functional Materials. • Nucleation of Ice and Gas Hydrates. • Confined Fluids and Ultrastable Glasses. • Applied Mathematics. Education • Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan Advisor: Sharon C. Glotzer. Dessertation Title: Thermodynamics of the Hard Tetrahedron System. Cumulative GPA: 8.39/9.00 (4.00/4.00). Dec. 2011 • Masters in Applied Mathematics, University of Michigan with concentration on Stochastic Processes and Optimization. GPA: 8.50/9.00 (4.00/4.00). Dec. 2009 • Masters in Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan GPA: 8.50/9.00 (4.00/4.00). Apr. 2006 • B.Sc. in Biotechnology, University of Tehran, Tehran, IRAN Finished first in class, GPA: 18.40/20.00. Jul. 2003 Research Experience • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University Feb. 2012- Present Project I: Kinetics and Mechanism of Ice Nucleation From Advanced Simulation Techniques. Description: Development of novel advanced simulation techniques for studying the kinetics and mechanism of crystallization, and the application of those techniques for computing the rate and unraveling the mechanism of ice nucleation in molecular models of water. Project II: Thermodynamic and Kinetic Anisotropies in Atomic and Molecular Liquid Thin Films. Description: Identification of the thermodynamic response of atomic and molecular thin films to variables such as temperature, and the type and strength of substrate-liquid interaction. • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan Sep. 2005- Jan. 2012 Project: Thermodynamics of The Hard Tetrahedron System. Description: Studying the phase behavior of hard tetrahedra and related hard particle systems using mesoscale molecular simulation techniques such as Monte Carlo (MC) and Molecular Dynamics (MD). Achievements And Awards • Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar Series, University of Washington. Aug. 2014 • Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan. A competitive fellowship for last-year PhD candidates at University of Michigan. Mar. 2010 • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan - Passed Doctoral Qualifying Exam (DQE) with Distinction. - Only one or two students (out of twenty) pass DQE with Distinction each year. May 2006 • Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology - MSRT Fellowship for Exceptional Talents. 2002-2004 • University of Tehran, Tehran IRAN - UT Entrance Exam Excellence Fellowship. 1999-2004 • Nationwide Entrance Exam for Colleges and Universities - Ranked 18th among more than 300, 000 participants nationwide. Jul. 1999 Publications 1. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Aaron S. Keys, Xiaoyu Zheng, Rolfe Petschek, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Sharon C. Glotzer, Disordered, quasicrystalline and crystalline phases of densely packed tetrahedra, Nature 462, 773–777 (2009). 2. Amir Haji-Akbari, Robert M. Ziff, Percolation in networks with voids and bottlenecks, Phys. Rev. E 79, 021118 (2009). 3. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Phase Diagram of Hard Tetrahedra, J. Chem. Phys. 135, 194101 (2011). 4. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Degenerate Quasicrystal of Hard Triangular Bipyramids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 215702 (2011), Appeared on the cover. 5. Amir Haji-Akbari, Elizabeth R. Chen, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Packing and self-assembly of truncated triangular bipyramids, Phys. Rev. E 88, 012127 (2013). 6. Amir Haji-Akbari, Pablo G. Debenedetti, The Effect of Substrate on Thermodynamic and Kinetic Anisotropies in Atomic Thin Films, J. Chem. Phys. 141: 024506 (2014). 7. Amir Haji-Akbari, Ryan S. DeFever, Sapna Sarupria, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Suppression of Sub-surface Freezing in Free-Standing Thin Films of a Coarse-grained Model of Water, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 16, 25916–25927 (2014). 8. Amir Haji-Akbari, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Direct Calculation of Ice Nucleation Rates for a Molecular Model of Water from Massively Parallel Molecular Simulations , Manuscript in preparation. 9. Amir Haji-Akbari, Melisa Gianetti, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Application of Forward-flux Sampling Algorithm To Studies of Crystallization: The Role of the Order Parameter, Manuscript in preparation. 10. Amir Haji-Akbari, Sharon C. Glotzer, Quantification of orientational order for symmetric objects, Manuscript in preparation. Presentations 1. Amir Haji-Akbari, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Surface-induced Suppression of Ice Nucleation in Free-standing Thin Films of Monoatomic Water, Water 2014, Les Houches, France (2014). 2. Amir Haji-Akbari, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Structural and Dynamical Heterogeneities in Thin FIlms of a Generic Glass-forming Liquid, APS March Meeting, Denver, CO (2014). 3. Amir Haji-Akbari, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Homogeneous Nucleation of Ice in Droplets and Free-Standing Films of Supercooled Water, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2013). 4. Amir Haji-Akbari, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Structural and Dynamical Properties of Atomic Thin Films, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2013). 5. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Entropically-stabilized Hard Particle Dodecagonal Quasicrystals, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2012). 6. Amir Haji-Akbari, Elizabeth R. Chen, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Packings and Self-Assembly of a Family of Hard Truncated Triangular Bipyramids, AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA (2012). 7. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Degenerate Quasicrystal of Hard Triangular Bipyramids Stabilized by Entropic Forces, APS March Meeting, Boston, MA (2012). 8. Amir Haji-Akbari, Sharon C. Glotzer, Effect of Building Block Geometry On the Stability of Ordered Phases of Hard Tetrahedra, AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolism, MN (2011). 9. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Thermodynamic stability of dense packings of hard, regular tetrahedra, APS March Meeting, Dallas, TX (2011). 10. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Entropic Stabilization of Ordered Phases of Hard Tetrahedra, AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (2010). 11. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Aaron S. Keys, Xiaoyu Zheng, Rolfe Petschek, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Sharon C. Glotzer, Monte Carlo simulation of dense packings of tetrahedra, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN (2009). 12. Amir Haji-Akbari, Xiaoyu Zheng, Rolfe Petschek, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Sharon C. Glotzer, Dense packings of hard tetrahedra, APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA (2009). 13. Amir Haji-Akbari, Sharon C. Glotzer, Orientational order parameters for arbitrarily shaped particles, AIChE Anual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (2008). Invited Talks 1. Molecular Engineering: From Self-Assembly to Climate Engineering, Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar Series, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, August 18, 2014. 2. Thermodynamics of the Hard Tetrahedron System, University of California Berkeley , January 18, 2011. 3. Tetrahedra: Packing, Entropy and Order, Princeton University, June 24, 2011. Poster Presentations 1. Amir Haji-Akbari, Pablo G. Debendetti, Ice Nucleation in Free-standing Thin Films of Supercooled Water, Water And Aqueous Solutions Gordon Research Conference, Holderness, NH, (2014). 2. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Sharon C. Glotzer, Phase Diagram of Hard Tetrahedron System, Mini Stat. Mech. Conference, Berkeley CA (2011). 3. Amir Haji-Akbari, Michael Engel, Aaron S. Keys, Xiaoyu Zheng, Rolfe Petschek, Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Sharon C. Glotzer, Monte Carlo simulation of dense packings of tetrahedra, FOMMS Conference, Blaine WA (2009). Proposal Writing Experience • Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE): – Molecular Simulation of Aqueous Systems Using Advanced Sampling Techniques (CHE140044): ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ ∗ PI: Pablo G. Debenedetti. Co-PI: Amir Haji-Akbari. Duration: April 2014–March 2015. Allocation: 8,577,719 SUs (CPU-hours). Dollar Equivalent: $376,541.11. • Center for Computational Innovations (CCI), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. – Ice Nucleation at Interfaces: A Roadmap to Geoengineering – PI: Pablo G. Debenedetti. – Co-PI: Amir Haji-Akbari. – Duration: June 2014-June 2015. – Allocation: 2.56 million CPU-hours. Teaching Experience • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan - Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) for CHE 341 (Fluid Mechanics). Jan.-Apr. 2009 • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan - Teaching Assistant for CHE 538 (Statistical and Irreversible Thermodynamics). Sep.-Dec. 2008 Mentoring Experience • Graduate Students: – Melisa Gianeti Sep. 2012–present. – Yehuda E. Altabet Aug. 2014–present. Workshops • Molecular simulation; algorithms, analysis and applications - Sponsored by Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Minneapolis, MN. - Offered full coverage of workshop and travel expenses by IMA. May 18-22, 2009 Skills • Programming Languages: C, C++, MPI, OpenMP. • Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OSX, Windows. • Software Packages: Microsoft Office, iWork, MATLAB, Fluent, XCode, Shark, LATEX, BibTEX. Professional Affiliations and Services • Mememberships: – American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). – American Physical Society (APS). – Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). • Reviewer of: – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). – Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). – Physical Review Letters. – Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. – Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP). – The Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP). – Molecular Physics. Leadership Experience • Iranian Graduate Students Associations (IGSA) - Elected officer of IGSA Board. Sep. 2009- Aug. 2010 • Department of Chemical Engineering Graduate Committee - Graduate student representative. Jan. 2009- Dec. 2010 References Prof. Sharon C. Glotzer Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering Dept. of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan NCRC B10-A177, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Phone: (734) 615–6296 E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Pablo G. Debenedetti Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering Dean for Research, Princeton University Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering A419 Engineering Quadrangle Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Phone: (609) 258–5480 E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Robert M. Ziff Professor of Chemical Engineering Dept. of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan 2630 Beyster, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Phone: (734) 764–7453 E-mail: [email protected] Prof. Ronald G. Larson George Granger Brown Professor of Chemical Engineering Dept. of Chemical Engineering University of Michigan NCRC B10-A150, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Phone: (734) 936–0772 E-mail: [email protected]
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