Aarhus Universitets segl

Pegah Nazari

Postdoc

EDUCATION

2015-nowPh.D student in Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nanocatalyst and environment Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Supervisor: Dr. S. Rahman Setayesh Thesis Title: Kinetics investigation of environmental pollutants degradation in advanced oxidation processes using metal oxide nanocatalysts
2012-2014M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Nano Catalyst and environment Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran Supervisor: Dr. S. Rahman Setayesh
2007-2011B.Sc. in Pure Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

HONORS and AWARDS

· Ranked 1st in PhD students
· Ranked 14th among more than 848 participants in national universities entrance exam for Ph.D. degree, 2015.

· Ranked 65th among more than 17,000 participants in national universities entrance exam for M.Sc. degree, 2012.

· Ranked 847th among more than 400,000 participants in national universities entrance exam for B.Sc. degree, 2007.

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

2014-2018Teaching assistance of Physical Chemistry Laboratory I, Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
2015-2018Teaching assistance of Physical Chemistry Laboratory II, Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
2015-2019Teaching assistance of Chemical Engineering Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
2016-2018Teaching assistance of Physical Chemistry II, Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
2015-2018Teaching assistance of Chemical Engineering Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

.Preparation, characterization and catalytic application of H3PW12O40/Al2O3, H3PMo6W6O40/Al2O3, K2.5H0.5PW12O40, Cs2.5H0.5PW12O40 and Cs2.5H0.5PW12O40 in esterification reaction (some parts of this research has been published).
.Preparation, characterization and catalytic application of H3PW12O40/TiO2, H3PMo6W6O40 / TiO2, K2.5H0.5PW12O40, Cs2.5H0.5PW12O40 and Cs2.5H0.5PW12O40 in photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue and Tinopal CBS-X under visible light
.Theoretical investigation of volatile organic pollutants adsorption on the surface of B and N doped graphene sheets (the resulted paper of this research is submitted at Vacuum Journal)
.Adsorption of aqueous solution xenobiotics on the graphene doped sheets: DFT study (the resulted paper of this research is submitted at Applied Surface Science Journal)
.Delafossite-alumina nanocomposite as a synergistic catalyst for catalytic wet peroxide oxidation and adsorption for treatment of contaminated water (the resulted paper of this research is submitted at Chemosphere)
.Iron vanadate nanocomposite synthesis as an efficient catalyst for the treatment of organic pollutants in water media, persulfate assisted electro-Fenton-like oxidation
.ZVI@zinc ferrite heterogeneous nanocatalyst for photo-electro-Fenton process in degradation of organic water pollutants
.Perovskite cobaltite-ceria nanocomposite for modified Fenton-like process in wastewater treatment

SUPERVISING ACTIVITIES

Supervising 4 post-graduate students.

Field of research:
.Synthesis and characterization of core-shell nanoparticles and kinetics investigation of oxygen evolution from water oxidation in the presence of these nanocatalysts.
.Theoretical investigation of adsorption of pollutants on the surface of graphene, doped graphene and defective graphene nanosheets (DFT study).
.Advanced oxidation processes (electro-Fenton) in degradation of water pollutants using metal oxide nanocatalysts.
.Kinetics investigation of oxygen evolution from water oxidation in the presence of bismuth vanadate nanocatalysts