Top  picture shows a drawing of C60 also known as Fullerene that is signed by Sir Harry Kroto, winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering C60, for Hamid Pouran.

Middle picture Sir Harry Kroto was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 1996 for his part in the discovery of buckminsterfullerenes, also known as “buckyballs” – carbon atoms found in the form of a ball.

Bottom picture With Sir Harry at Kroto Research Institute in 2009 just before finishing my Ph.D., talking about my research.

Education

Postdoc,PhD, Licentiate Thesis  (MSc 2), MSc (1), BSc

​Postdoctorate:  Environmental Nanotechnology, Lancaster University, UK. Member of Transatlantic Initiative for Nano technology and the Environment.


PhD: Kroto Research Institute, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK.
University of Sheffield Faculty of Engineering PhD Scholarship Award.
Thesis title: Studying Molecular and Nanoscale Interactions at Metal Oxide Surfaces and Their Effects on Bacterial Adhesion.


Licentiate Thesis (MSc, 2nd) thesis title: Accelerated Solvent Extraction (ASE) and clean-up of organic pollutants from air born particles and polyurethane foams (PUF) adsorbent, Department of Material and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden.


MSc (1st) thesis : Effects of leather industries effluents on chromium concentration and its species in affected soils, Department of Soil Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.

BSc: Soil Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.
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