Hashem Rafii Tabar

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Hashem Rafii-Tabar
Born1948
NationalityIranian
CitizenshipBritish-Iranian
Alma mater University 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

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Iranian Science and Culture Hall of Fame (Ever-lasting Names) award
Scientific career
Fields Condensed matter; Computational physics; Properties of nanostructured materials including Carbon Nanotubes
Institutions Shahid 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

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

Research

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:

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References

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  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.
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