mohammadi.doc - Bureau of Economic Geology - The University of

							                                     Zahra Mohammadi
                                     Professional Summary
                                         October 5, 2012

Business address:              The University of Texas at Austin
                               Bureau of Economic Geology
                               University Station, Box X
                               Austin, Texas 78713-8924
                               (512) 471-2907
E-mail address:                zahra.mohammadi@beg.utexas.edu

Academic Background
   B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, June 2003
   M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, July 2008
   Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Kansas, Lawrence, April 2011

Areas of Expertise
   A. Enhanced oil recovery through wettability alteration and designing and synthesizing novel
      nanoparticles as scale inhibitors.
   B. Designing and optimizing biomimetic functional polymers as metal chelators.
   C. Designing magnetic nanoparticles as MRI contrast probes.

Professional Work Experience
   A. Present Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at
      Austin (June 2011 - Present).

       Carbonate area.

   B. Researcher, University of Kansas, Lawrenceburg, Kansas (September 2006 - November 2011).

       Polymer design, polymerization reactions, ligand grafting, and conjugation reactions; particle
       engineering, colloidal stability, particle interactions/adsorption/transport phenomena; bulk and
       water-in-oil microemulsion polymerization; designing and synthesizing cross-linked polymeric
       hydrogels and colloids; synthesizing and characterizing magnetic nanoparticles as MRI contrast
       agents; developing methods to enhance the magnetization of magnetic nanoparticles; designing
       and fabricating biomimetic polymers capable of interaction with actives; applying advanced
       equations and theory to polymer/ligand binding and kinetics.

   C. Process Engineer, Research Institute of Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran (November 2004 - April
      2005).



   D. Intern, Iranian Offshore Oil Company, Tehran, Iran (June 2003 - August 2003).

       Met daily with over 10 engineers of various ages and backgrounds; effectively communicated
       different concepts from basic to advanced designing.

Publications
   Patent

   Mohammadi, Z., and Berkland, C., Polyamine-Dihydroxybenzoic Acid Conjugate Hydrogels as Iron
      Chelators: Patent Number 109521,


Articles
   Peer Reviewed
   Mohammadi, Z., Gloub, A., Xie, S., and Berkland, C., 2011, Siderophore-mimetic hydrogel for iron
      chelation therapy: Journal of Applied Polymer Science, v. 121, no. 3, p. 1384‒1392.
   Mohammadi, Z., Xie, S.-X., Peltier, E., Veisi, M., and Berkland, C., 2011, Enhancing the selectivity of
      an iron binding hydrogel: European Polymer Journal, v. 47, p. 1485‒1488.
   Mohammadi, Z., Wang, X., and Berkland, C., 2010, Magnetic polyvinylamine nanoparticles by In-situ
      Precipitation Reaction: Journal of Polymer Science, v. 48, p. 991–996.
   Mohammadi, Z., Cole, A., and Berkland, C., 2009, In situ synthesis of iron oxide within polyvinylamine
      nanoparticle reactor: Journal of Physics and Chemistry, v. 113, no. 18, p. 7652–7658.

   Non-Peer-Reviewed
   Gehrke, S., Mohammadi, Z., et al., 2011, Poly(N-vinyl formamide) hydrogels as an alternative to
      polyacrylamide, in AICHE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis.
   Mohammadi, Z., Berkland, C., and others, 2009, Improving the mechanical performance of hydrogels
      by controlling the nanostructure, in AICHE Annual Meeting, Nashville.

Languages Spoken
   English
   Farsi
   Turkish