CURRICULUM VITAE
Fahimeh Karimi Pour Haddadan
Assistant Professor
Department of Solid State Physics,
Faculty of Physics, Kharazmei University,
P. O. Box 15815-3587
Tehran, Iran
Education:
PostDoctoral Associate, IPM, School of Physics, Tehran, Iran.
Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
Ph.D. (Physics), Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
M.S. (Theoretical Physics), Department of Physics, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
B.S. (Physics), Department of Physics, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran.
Research Interest:
Condensed matter physics; Phenomenology of liquid crystals
Publications:
• Fahimeh Karimi Pour Haddadan, Ali Naji, and Rudolf Podgornik, Casimir-like interactions
and surface anchoring duality in bookshelf geometry of smectic-A liquid crystals, Soft Matter, 15, 2216 (2019).
• Fahimeh Karimi Pour Haddadan, Liquid-crystalline Casimir forces in the presence of nano-particles,
Iranian Journal of Physics Research, 18, 2, 331 (2018).
•Fahimeh Karimi Pour Haddadan, Fluctuation-induced forces in nematics with a foreign anisotropy in the bulk,
J. Phys:Condens. Matter, 29, 065101, (2017).
• Fahimeh Karimi Pour Haddadan, Pseudo-Casimir forces in nematics with disorders
in the bulk, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28, 405101 (2016).
• Fahimeh Karimi Pour Haddadan, Ali Naji, Nafiseh Shirzadiani and Rudolf Podgornik,
Fluctuation-induced interactions in nematics with disordered anchoring energy,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 26, 505101 (2014).
• Fahimeh Karimi Pour Haddadan, Ali Naji, Azin Khame Seifi and Rudolf Podgornik,
Pseudo-Casimir interactions across nematic films with disordered anchoring axis,
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 26, 075103 (2014).
• F. Karimi Pour Haddadan and S. Dietrich, Lateral and normal forces between patterned substrates
induced by nematic fluctuations, Phys. Rev. E 73, 051708 (2006).
• F. Karimi Pour Haddadan, F. Schlesener, and S. Dietrich, Liquid-crystalline Casimir
effect in the presence of a patterned substrate, Phys. Rev. E 70, 041701 (2004).
• F. Karimi Pour Haddadan, D. W. Allender, and S. Zumer, ˇ Pseudo-Casimir effect
in untwisted chiral nematic liquid crystals, Phys. Rev. E 64, 061701 (2001).
• P. Ziherl, F. Karimi Pour Haddadan, R. Podgornik, and S. Zumer, ˇ Pseudo-Casimir
effect in nematic liquid crystals in frustrating geometries, Phys. Rev. E 61, 5361 (2000).
Teaching
Advanced Electrodynamics
Advanced Solid State Physics
Advanced Statistical Physics
Many-body Physics
Computational Physics
Solid State Physics
Electromagnetism
Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics
Basic Physics (Mechanics and Electromagnetism)
Supervision of the MS. Thesis:
• M. Babaei, The electrical properties of Graphene nano-ribbons, 1391, Kharazmi
University
• A. Qariarab, Smectic Liquid Crystals- Free energy and Thermal fluctuations, 1394,
Kharazmi University
• M. R. Safari, Pseudo-Casimir effect in Nematic Liquid Crystals, 1394, Kharazmi
University
• A. Amirifar, Pseudo-Casimir effect in the vicinity of the liquid-crystalline phase
transitions, 1394, Kharazmi University