Education/Professional activity:

Research Scholar, California State University , Northridge (Oct. 2007 -present), PI: professor Nicholas Kioussis

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles (Sept. 2005- Oct. 2007), PI: professor Vidvuds Ozolins

Referee, Physical Review, American Physical Society (Nov. 2005-present)

PhD University of Arkansas (Dec. 2005), Thesis advisor: professor Laurent Bellaiche

M. Sc. Isfahn University of Technology, Isfahn, Iran, (1996)

B.Sc. Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, (1993)

Research interests:

Dielectric and piezoelectric responses of Ferroelectrics, Quantum effects in incipient ferroelectircs, Ferroelectric thin films, Surface effects in ferroelectric thin films, Ferroelectric nanodots, nanowires, Lattice dynamics, electronic band structures Electromigration, void and defect formation in copper thin films, Thermodynamics of Solid State Hydrogen storage, Minimum energy path using NEB method

Honors:

General Motors Travel Award, International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems, Fundamentals and Applications, Oct. 2006.

Graduate Dissertation Research Award, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Dec. 2004, University of Arkansas.

IBM-Zerner Fellowship for Graduate Students, 44^th Sanibel Symposium, March 2004, University of Florida

http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/~sanibel/index.html

Affiliations:

2005-current, Full Member of the Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society, Fayetteville Chapter, University of Arkansas

2006-current, Regular Member of the Materials Research Society (MRS)

2003-current, Regular Member of the American Physical Society (APS)

Publications:

C. Wolverton, D. Siegle, A.R. Akbarzadeh,and V. Ozolins, "Discovery of Novel Hydrogen storage materials: An atomic scale computational approach", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 20, 064228 (2008)

A.R. Akbarzadeh, V. Ozolins, and C. Wolverton, "First-principles determination of multicomponent hydride phase diagrams: Application to the Li-Mg-N-H system", Advanced Materials , 19, 3233-3239 (2007) [DOI: 10.1002/adma.200700843]

A. R. Akbarzadeh, L. Bellaiche, J. Iniguez, and D. Vanderbilt, "Theoretical diagram of ultrathin films of incipeint ferroelectrics", Applied Physics Letters 90 , 24918 (2007) [DOI: 10.1063/1.2748844]

A.R. Akbarzadeh, I. Kornev, C. Malibert, L. Bellaiche and J. M. Kiat, "A combined and experimental study of the low temperature properties of BaZrO₃", Physical Review B 72 , 205104 (2005)

A.R. Akbarzadeh, L. Bellaiche, K. Leung, J. Iniguez and David Vanderbilt, "Atomistic simulations of the incipient ferroelectric KTaO₃", Physical Review B 70, 054103 (2004)

			Education/Professional activity: Research Scholar, California State University , Northridge (Oct. 2007 -present), PI: professor Nicholas Kioussis Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Los Angeles (Sept. 2005- Oct. 2007), PI: professor Vidvuds Ozolins Referee, Physical Review, American Physical Society (Nov. 2005-present) PhD University of Arkansas (Dec. 2005), Thesis advisor: professor Laurent Bellaiche M. Sc. Isfahn University of Technology, Isfahn, Iran, (1996) B.Sc. Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, (1993) Research interests: Dielectric and piezoelectric responses of Ferroelectrics, Quantum effects in incipient ferroelectircs, Ferroelectric thin films, Surface effects in ferroelectric thin films, Ferroelectric nanodots, nanowires, Lattice dynamics, electronic band structures Electromigration, void and defect formation in copper thin films, Thermodynamics of Solid State Hydrogen storage, Minimum energy path using NEB method Honors: *General Motors Travel Award,* International Symposium on Metal-Hydrogen Systems, Fundamentals and Applications, Oct. 2006. *Graduate Dissertation Research Award, J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Dec. 2004, University of Arkansas. IBM-Zerner Fellowship for Graduate Students, 44^th Sanibel Symposium, March 2004, University of Florida http://www.qtp.ufl.edu/~sanibel/index.html Affiliations:* *2005-current, Full Member of the Sigma Xi The Scientific Research Society, Fayetteville Chapter, University of Arkansas* *2006-current, Regular Member of the Materials Research Society (MRS)* *2003-current, Regular Member of the American Physical Society (APS)* Publications: C. Wolverton, D. Siegle, A.R. Akbarzadeh,and V. Ozolins, "Discovery of Novel Hydrogen storage materials: An atomic scale computational approach", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 20, 064228 (2008) A.R. Akbarzadeh, V. Ozolins, and C. Wolverton, "First-principles determination of multicomponent hydride phase diagrams: Application to the Li-Mg-N-H system", Advanced Materials , 19, 3233-3239 (2007) [DOI: 10.1002/adma.200700843] A. R. Akbarzadeh, L. Bellaiche, J. Iniguez, and D. Vanderbilt, "Theoretical diagram of ultrathin films of incipeint ferroelectrics", Applied Physics Letters 90 , 24918 (2007) [DOI: 10.1063/1.2748844] A.R. Akbarzadeh, I. Kornev, C. Malibert, L. Bellaiche and J. M. Kiat, "A combined and experimental study of the low temperature properties of BaZrO₃", Physical Review B 72 , 205104 (2005) A.R. Akbarzadeh, L. Bellaiche, K. Leung, J. Iniguez and David Vanderbilt, "Atomistic simulations of the incipient ferroelectric KTaO₃", Physical Review B 70, 054103 (2004)