Principal Investigator:

Associate Professor Amin Yourdkhani

Dr. Yourdkhani received both B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in materials engineering and a Ph.D. in materials science. He accomplished his bachelor's at the University of Semnan in 2005. Then, he received an M.Sc. from the University of Tehran in 2008. Afterward, he moved to the United States, and he was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the University of New Orleans in 2012. Then, he joined IMEM at the magnetic materials group at CNR, Parma, Italy, as a postdoctoral researcher within the Marie Curie fellowship program in 2013. Dr. Yourdkhani has been a faculty member in the ceramics group of the materials engineering department at Tarbiat Modares University (TMU) since 2015.

Dr. Yourdkhani teaches courses at the master's and Ph.D. levels. He is the instructor for “Physical Ceramics” and “Magnetic and Electrical Ceramics” courses for M.Sc students. At the doctoral level, he teaches “Advanced Electroceramics”.

Graduate Students

Zeynab Abbasali, Ph.D. candidate

B.Sc.: University of Tabriz

M.Sc.: Sharf University of Technology

She is currently working on PEC properties of hematite photonaodes heat-treated by flame

Shirin Askari, M.Sc. student

B.Sc.: Arak University

Her thesis is on the processing of ilmenite into hematite and titania photoanodes

Alumni

	Ehsan Mahboobi, M.Sc. (2017) Thesis: Iron Phosphate Films by LPD as Potential Application for Cathode of Small Ion Batteries
	Mahsa Kamani, M.Sc. (2018) Thesis: Cold Sintering Process of Zinc Ferrite Ceramics
	Maryam Mohammad-Hosseinpour, M.Sc. (2018) Thesis: Electrochromic Properties of Tungsten Oxide Films on ITO Coated Glass Substrates by LPD
	Marjan Saeidi, M.Sc. (2019) Thesis: Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Properties of Hematite Films Grown by LPD
	Niousha Varastegani, M.Sc. (2019) Thesis: The Effects of Bismuth Oxide Additive on Dielectric and Magnetic Properties of Magnesium Ferrite Ceramics
	Soroush Dashtizad, M.Sc. (2019) Thesis: Piezoelectric Properties of PVDF Polymer
	Hamed Bakhshi, Ph.D. (2019) Thesis: The Effects of Sm, Dy, and Nb Doping on Microstructure and Thermoelectric Properties of Strontium Titanate Ceramics
	Niousha Mouchani, M.Sc. (2021) Thesis: Improvements in the photoelectrochemical properties of the Hematite thin films
	Mohadase Karimkhah, M.Sc. (2021) Thesis: Photocatalytic Properties of Tungsten Oxide
	Mahdi Rasouli, M.Sc. (2021) Thesis: Improvements in The photoelectrochemical properties of the hematite thin Films
	Mehdi Hedayati, Ph.D. (2021) Thesis: PVDF-based Nanocomposites using Barium Titanate Nanotubes and Nanofibers: The Investigation of Dielectric Properties and Energy Storage Performance
	Fahimeh Esmaeili, M.Sc. (2023) Thesis: Photoelectrochemical properties of surface-modified hematite photoanodes by chlorine and fluorine species
	Amir Hosein Farahmand, M.Sc. (2023) Thesis: The effects of post-annealing on photoelectrochemical properties of hematite films
	Fatemeh Parveh, M.Sc. (2023) Thesis: Surface state passivation of hematite photoanodes using iron phosphate