CV (Brief)
Employment
2010–
Imperial College London
Senior Lecturer and RCUK Fellow in the Departments of Materials and
Physics and the Thomas Young Centre for Theory and Simulation of
Materials
2007–2010
Imperial College London
Lecturer and RCUK Fellow in the Departments of Materials and
Physics and the Thomas
Young Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials
2005–2007
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge MA, USA
Research Associate with Prof. Nicola Marzari in the Department
of Materials Science and Engineering
2004–2007
Christ's College, University of Cambridge
Research Fellow in Physics (on intermission at MIT
10/05–09/07)
2003–2004 Cavendish Laboratory, University of
Cambridge
Research Associate with Prof. Mike Payne in the Theory of
Condensed Matter Group
Education
2000–2003 Department of Physics,
University of Cambridge
PhD research degree "On Linear-Scaling Methods for
Quantum-Mechanical First-Principles Calculations"
with Prof. Mike Payne in Theory of Condensed Matter
(Cavendish Laboratory)
Awards
PhD degree conferred on 17 July 2004
Institute of Physics Computational Physics
Group Thesis Prize (2004)
1996–2000 Christ's College, University of
Cambridge
2000 BA (Hons), MSci in Physical Natural Sciences. Part
III (First Class) in Theoretical Physics
1999 Part II (First Class) in Theoretical Physics
1998 Part IB (First Class) in Advanced
Physics and Mathematics
1997 Part IA (First Class) in Biology of
Cells, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics
Awards
BA Scholarship (2000)
College Scholarship (1997, 1998, 1999)
S. W. Greig Prize (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)
BA degree conferred on 30 June 2000
MA degree conferred on 22 March 2003
1989–1996 The Manchester Grammar School,
Manchester
1996 'A'-Level Chemistry (A), Mathematics (A), Further
Mathematics (A) and Physics (A)
1994 'E'-Level French (Distinction), 7 GCSEs (5 A*,
2 A)
1993 GCSE French (A) and Mathematics (A)
Publications
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Teaching
- Lectures on Mathematics for the Theory of Materials and Crystallography in the Doctoral Training Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials (Imperial College London, 2009–)
- Lectures on Mathematical Methods for Materials (Imperial College London, 2007–)
- Year-4 course co-ordinator in Materials
- Tutor in Physics and Materials (Imperial College London, 2007–)
- Supervisor in Oriental Studies, Persian Language (Cambridge, 2002–05)
Professional Activities and Awards
- Co-author of the ONETEP code, licensed to Accelrys Inc., San Diego, for commercialisation under an agreement made through the University of Cambridge Technology Transfer Office
- Co-author of the WANNIER90 code, released under the GNU General Public License and available for free download
- Academic partner of the Accelrys Nanotechnology Consortium
- Deputy Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Theory and Simulation of Materials
- Executive Committee of the Thomas Young Centre
- Chairman of the Events Working Group of the Thomas Young Centre
- Member of the Institute of Physics
- Chartered Physicist
- Referee for Europhysics Letters, the Journal of Chemical Physics, the Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation and Computer Physics Communications
- Warden, Wilkinson Hall of Residence
- Deputy Chairman of the College Wardens' Committee
- Rector's Award for Excellence in Pastoral Care (2009)
Additional Skills
Languages Fluent in Persian, basic
French and German
Computing UNIX, Windows
and MacOS; FORTRAN,
MPI and HTML; Microsoft Office;
LATEX