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Hashem Rafii Tabar

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Hashem Rafii-Tabar
Born1948
NationalityIranian
CitizenshipBritish-Iranian
Alma materUniversity of London
Known forComputational physics of nanostructures and nanoneuroscience
Awards1994 - Elegant Work Prize of the Institute of Materials London for outstanding contribution to the investigation of nano-scale systems and processes

2001 - Elected number one researcher in nano-technology from the National Nanotechnology Conference

2006 - Elected for Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame (Ever-lasting Names) award
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter; Computational physics; Properties of nanostructured materials including Carbon Nanotubes
InstitutionsShahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,
former: University of Oxford, Tohoku University, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences

Hashem Rafii-Tabar is a British-Iranian professor and scientist within computational physics and nanoscience. He is primarily known for his contribution to the computational physics of nanostructures with important applications such as Carbon Nanotubes.[1]

Rafii-Tabar's book "Computational Physics of Carbon Nanotubes" published by Cambridge University Press[2] was the first to cover this field and has been republished several times while gaining a text-book statue within the computational physics.[3] In 2000 after around 40 years of living in the UK, he moved to Iran and started as the Head of The School of nanotechnology at Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences[4] until 2015. He is now a distinguished professor of physics at Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences.

In 2006 he achieved the title of Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame (Ever-lasting Names) for his work in the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Rafii-Tabar has been also active in the research field of treatment of nonlocal elasticity theory as applied to the prediction of the mechanical characteristics of various types of biological and non-biological nanoscopic structures with different morphologies and functional behaviour, contributing to scholarly output such as "Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures".[5] He has also worked in disease diagnosis field developing nanosensors for early detection of cancer biomarkers [6] and also conceptual designs for nanodevices that can identify and destroy individual cancer cells.[7] Several of his former students and supervised researchers are now university lectures in Asia[8] and Europe [9]

Life and education

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Rafii-Tabar did a BSc., MSC. and PhD at University of London and had held academic positions at University of Greenwich and University of Oxford. He worked and lived in the UK for 40 years (and France and Japan for some years in the interim) before moving to Tehran in 2000. He has lived there since then.

Academic career and titles

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Research

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Rafii-Tabar contributed to 150 peer-reviewed papers, 6 book and book chapters and 3 review papers. The field of his research can be holistically divided into two main categories: Foundations of Quantum Theory and Computational Nano-Science and Condensed Matter Physics at the Nanoscale which in turn can be sub-categorized into:

  • Modelling the tribological, adhesion, fracture, friction and indentation properties of metallic and semi-conducting nano-crystals using computer-based atomistic-level simulations
  • Development of new inter-atomic potentials
  • Modelling the nucleation and growth of nano-phase films on supporting substrates
  • Swelling of crystals subject to thermonuclear radiation
  • Multi-scale modelling of crack propagation in crystalline materials
  • Multi-scale modelling and experimental investigation of adsorption of atomic clusters on a metallic substrate
  • Modelling the meso-scale diffusion processes in stochastic fluid bio-membranes

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Hashem Rafii-Tabar - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com.
  2. ^ Rafii-Tabar, Hashem (2007). Computational Physics of Carbon Nanotubes by Hashem Rafii-Tabar. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511541278. ISBN 978-0-521-85300-2. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  3. ^ Ghavanloo, Esmaeal; Rafii-Tabar, Hashem; Fazelzadeh, Seyed Ahmad (2019). Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures: Nonlocal Elasticity Approaches. Springer. ISBN 9783030116507. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  4. ^ "IPM - Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences". www.ipm.ac.ir. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures". springerprofessional.de. Springer. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  6. ^ Feder, Toni (30 July 2010). "Sanctions on Iran slow science, slam a scientist". Physics Today. 63 (8): 22–25. Bibcode:2010PhT....63h..22F. doi:10.1063/1.3480068.
  7. ^ "Iran makes the sciences a part of its revolution". Tehran Times. 11 June 2008. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  8. ^ "Sadollah Ebrahimi". research.uok.ac.ir. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  9. ^ "Dr Shirin Jamshidi". kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  10. ^ Rafii-Tabar, Hashem. A theoretical study of the low-energy K- meson-alpha particle reaction processes (Thesis). Retrieved 26 September 2019.
  11. ^ "IPM - Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences". www.ipm.ac.ir. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
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