Seyyedeh Somayeh Faal Rastegar

Ten years of varied professional experience in multidisciplinary collaborative teams.

Four years of experience in teaching chemistry courses including quantum chemistry.

Accomplished in a wide variety of analytical techniques.

Broad background in computational chemistry.

Detail-oriented Research Assistant with hands-on experience performing clerical and laboratory work to advance research goals. Drives team success with expertise in data review, reporting, and specimen handling. Specializes in environmental problems.

• DFT functional
• Noncovalent interactions
• Adsorption
• Chemical and physical properties of interfaces
• Molecular engineering
• Zeolites
• Catalyst activity of large pore zeolites
• Carbon capture

• 14th European Congress on Catalysis, EuropaCat 2019, Aachen, Germany, 2019.
• 4th International Conference on Nanostructures, March 2012, Kish Island, Iran.
• 5th International Conference, March 2014, Kish Island, Iran 2014.

• Teaching Assistant, Tarbiat Modares University
• Quantum Mechanic
• Teaching Olympiad of Chemistry, courses for students (4 years)
• Research (chemistry lab, Tarbiat Modares University)
• Fundamentals of physics, Halliday and Resnick, Islamic Azad University, (3 years)
• Physical chemistry, Islamic Azad University (3 years)
• Physical Chemistry Lab Supervisor, Islamic Azad University (3 years)

• Rastegar, S. F., et al. (2020). "Analysis of decisive structural parameters of zeolites for alkylation of benzene with ethylene." Applied Catalysis A: General 591: 117379.
• SR Whittleton, A Vicente, C Fernandez, SF Rastegar (2018). "Effect of Ge/Si substitutions on the local geometry of Si framework sites in zeolites: A combined high-resolution 29Si MAS NMR and DFT/MM study on zeolite Beta polymorph C (BEC)." Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 267: 124-133.
• Rastegar SF, Osouleddini N (2017) TCNE-modified graphene as an adsorbent for N2O molecule: a DFT study. Journal of Molecular Modeling 23 (12):352. DOI:10.1007/s00894-017-3526-2
• M.T. Baei, S.F. Rastegar, A. Ahmadi Peyghan, Surface Modification of Carbon Nanotubes with Nitrenes: A DFT Study, Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures, 23 (2014) 326-331.
• A. Peyghan, S. Rastegar, Z. Bagheri, Selective detection of F2 in the presence of CO, N2, O2, and H2 molecules using a ZnO nanocluster, Monatsh Chem, (2014) 1-7.
• A.A. Peyghan, S.F. Rastegar, N.L. Hadipour, DFT study of NH3 adsorption on pristine, Ni- and Si-doped graphynes, Physics Letters A, 378 (2014) 2184-2190.
• S. Rastegar, N. Hadipour, M. Tabar, H. Soleymanabadi, DFT studies of acrolein molecule adsorption on pristine and Al-doped graphenes, Journal of Molecular Modeling, 19 (2013) 3733-3740.
• S.F. Rastegar, A. Ahmadi Peyghan, H. Soleymanabadi, Ab initio studies of the interaction of formaldehyde with beryllium oxide nanotube, Physica E: Low dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 68 (2015) 22-27.